Heh. So, raise your hand if you ever expected to trade up to a piece of fungus from a gravity gun. You're not as crazy as you might've thought you were.

That aside...all of you not-so-preoccupied? Care to enlighten a guy about a dead holiday? What're we looking at--twenty, forty-eight hours of this mess? I'd like to be able to--oop.

[pause.]Huh. ( Read more... )

[boredly, thoughtfully:] The more I think about it, the more believable that ridiculous revelation about the Earth falling into ruin becomes. Maybe that's just me being a bit too cynical about the incompetence of Earth-men nowadays, though. I can't think of any construction crew that eager to develop a golf course that far underground.

[beat.]If ( Read more... )

Apologies, room three-eight. The violent hacking's coming from this computer. The...language settings changed while I was clicking around, I think. Not exactly sure how coughing would translate well into conversation, but...

[more to himself:] So, last thing I tried was that...And before then was--[a sputtering cough, like an old person with ( Read more... )

[a moment: clearing his throat. speaking slow, like somebody trying to solve a math problem out loud:]

Well...I guess I appreciate those penguins for letting me skip ahead of them in line, if that's what they were doing intentionally. [vaguely off-speaker:] If not, well. Oops.I'd prefer to bypass all this 'work' talk I've had thrown at me for a ( Read more... )