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Corcoran's face paled as he read the message from the strategy net for Operation Great Justice.
Tabitha placed her hand on his shoulder. "Captain?" she asked. "Are you all right?" She drew closer, her crinolines and petticoats whispering as she embraced the object of her conditioned obsession.
Tom Dobbs, her hair freshly cut in her latest futile attempt at a buzz cut looked at the message herself and let out a stream of profanities that would have made her drill sergeant proud.
Corcoran shakily got to his feet and strode to address Buttercup. He thought for a moment and haltingly began to sing:
Never mind the why and wherefore
They have called distress and therefore
We must make our way to Venus with all necessary haste!
And let us pray we make it before any more lives are waste!
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
Corcoran's face paled as he read the message from the strategy net for Operation Great Justice.
Tabitha placed her hand on his shoulder. "Captain?" she asked. "Are you all right?" She drew closer, her crinolines and petticoats whispering as she embraced the object of her conditioned obsession.
Tom Dobbs, her hair freshly cut in her latest futile attempt at a buzz cut looked at the message herself and let out a stream of profanities that would have made her drill sergeant proud.
Corcoran shakily got to his feet and strode to address Buttercup. He thought for a moment and haltingly began to sing:
Never mind the why and wherefore
They have called distress and therefore
We must make our way to Venus with all necessary haste!
And let us pray we make it before any more lives are waste!
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll