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- From: rigler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Michael A. Rigler)
- Subject: Dizzying Perspective
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.092405.29374@news.Hawaii.Edu>
- Summary: KILL ME NOW
- Sender: root@news.Hawaii.Edu (News Service)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu
- Organization: Ministry of Marqaha
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 09:24:05 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- The man is obviously royalty. He wears a crown on his head.
-
- But he is a just a picture on a small, rectangular piece of
- plastic-coated cardboard.
-
- Little eight-year-old Billy Johnson plucks it from the top
- of the pile and spreads his hand out on the table. "Gin!
- I win! I win!"
-
- "You cheated!" His opponent (the terrorist kidnapper) screams.
- He points an Uzi directly at the young boy's face and squeezes
- the trigger. BA-TA-TA-TA-TAT! He shoots little Billy dead.
-
- "CUT!" shouts the director. "Coleman, Baby, I need you to
- hold perfectly still after the bad guy shoots you. Can you do
- that for me, Gary?" He mops his forehead. "Alright, let's do
- it again. Makeup!"
-
- *click*
-
- Edna switches off the small television set in the kitchen. "What
- a stupid program." She thinks.
-
- Indeed, she muses, the expensive new software she purchased to run
- her servants is not all it is cracked up to be. They still leave
- the T.V. on, knock over priceless vases...etc. The old adage is
- still as true today: there's just no substitute for a human servant.
-
- Suddenly, the deck beneath her feet shudders violently. She hears
- an ominous groaning from deep within the bowels of the steel space-
- craft. "Wha -- ?" But before she can finish, the hull ruptures and
- she is sucked straight out into the void, to die the hideous death
- all spacemen fear most --
-
- <GASP !!!>
-
- -- Gina sits bolt upright in bed. For a few moments she can only
- claw at her bedclothes in terror. Then she realizes: it was all
- just a crazy nightmare!
-
- *click*
-
- She switches off the television set. Some stupid show about ter-
- rorists. That plus the pizza with everything on it. "Shit! No
- wonder I had a bad dream." She rolls over and goes to sleep.
-
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- Rigler Zeroth Eiger Sanction of Marqaha
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