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HH
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Manga Shoggoth

Member Since: Fri Jan 02, 2004
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Subj: What, you mean that pastel melange from the original cover?
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 at 11:45:54 am EST
Reply Subj: Shades of HitchHiker's guide to the Galaxy
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 at 10:37:17 am EDT (Viewed 505 times)


> > ...But there has to be an emergency escape exit. No mad scientist is going to build a bunker like this without installing at least one emergency escape exit.”
> Shades of the Patrician...

And thirty thousand mad dictators before him.

> >     Ã¢â‚¬Å“Was Dr Trenchcoat a mad scientist?” Liu Xi wondered. “I’ve never heard of him.”
> >     Ã¢â‚¬Å“He’s definitely on the border,” Letitia answered. “I heard he got thrown out of last years WeirdSciCon for projectile ectoplasm vomiting.”
> Unlike Al, who wasn't allowed in, and everyone else, who just had ... problems.

Hey, Dr T was right there in the story.

> >     Vinny checked the notes in the folders beside each one. “Okay, the mirror was the one that pre-talkies movie starlet Helga Walton broke when her career ended with the advent of sound,” he briefed them. “She took a fragment and carved up her perfect face before slitting her throat. ...
> This must be a very common trope - I've even found it in Anime...

I'm sure it is. This is the Parodyverse. We don't get too much original.

> > Next Time: The truth behind the psionic energy interface, more on Liu Xi’s rear end, the Idiom takes arms against a sea of troubles, and we finally get to the body count.
> Isn't De Soth already counting bodies?

Checking out Liu Xi doesn't count.