On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:22:34 -0700, johac <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote:

In article <fd16c19t1t7lk694ecbn0f185b79h8ecft@4ax.com>,
Dubh Ghall <puck@pooks.hill.fey> wrote:

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:47:59 -0700, johac <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote:

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Have you seen what those things COST?

Like everything else, outrageous I'll bet.

They got the smaller, cheaper, versions, fifteen quid, about US$30, each.

My excuse was that the bigger ones, UK£40+, were too big to fit in their
pockets.

Of course nobody mentioned that undoing every screw in sight, was also a
no
no.

(They weren't taking it apart, they were just seeing if the screw driver
worked).

Hopefully, by the time we see them again, in September, they will have
tried
all
the tools, and one son, and one daughter, will have forgiven me. (:-)

Heh! One of the biggest mistakes my dad made was showing me his tool
box. I got into a lot of trouble, but I had so much fun 'fixing' things
around the house.

Yes, and that is something along the lines of what I am going to remind a
certain son, and daughter, of, if they are still miffed when I see them. (:-D

--
Puck Greenman
The spelling, Like any opinion stated here,
is purely my own
#162 BAAWA Knight.

Plonked by Rob Duncan

Na bister 500,000

There was another, and I can't actually remember the story, only
a bit of the punch line, so to speak.

It was some galactic something or other, and they had come to
Earth; Obviously.

I think they put some sort of impenetrable barrier around the
earth, to keep us in. Nothing solid could pass through it.

So they quit trying to punch through it, and started looking at
other ways of getting past it.

Anyway, at the end, one of these Galactic whatnots makes a
joking remark to another one, that if we had ever got out, the
galaxy would be in big trouble.

Punch line: Two hundred years later, his comment didn't seem so
funny.

Perhaps not two hundred, but that sort of thing.

I have no idea when, or where I read it. I used to get Galaxy,
Analog, Astounding, and a rake of others, until they stopped
being imported. Then there are all the collections of short
stories, and authors who only ever got one story published.

I think it might have been by Willy Ley, or Lester del Ray, but
it could have as well been some poor hopeful's only published
story.

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:53:42 -0500, Harry F. Leopold <hleopold@coxyx.net>
wrote:

For your own good.

(:-)

or as it was put in an old SF story: Danger, Human.

Now that rings a bell.

I should, it was a very well written story. Gordon R. Dickson, also wrote
the
Childe Cycle.

Ah yes.

There was another, and I can't actually remember the story, only a bit of the
punch line, so to speak.

It was some galactic something or other, and they had come to Earth;
Obviously.

I think they put some sort of impenetrable barrier around the earth, to keep
us
in.
Nothing solid could pass through it.

So they quit trying to punch through it, and started looking at other ways of
getting past it.

Anyway, at the end, one of these Galactic whatnots makes a joking remark to
another one, that if we had ever got out, the galaxy would be in big trouble.


Punch line: Two hundred years later, his comment didn't seem so funny.

Perhaps not two hundred, but that sort of thing.

I have no idea when, or where I read it. I used to get Galaxy, Analog,
Astounding, and a rake of others, until they stopped being imported.
Then there are all the collections of short stories, and authors who only

got one story published.

I think it might have been by Willy Ley, or Lester del Ray, but it could have
as well been some poor hopeful's only published story.