Subject: Re: TAN: Kung Fu styles (was Re: TAN: The Matrix) From: jsn@concentric.net (John S. Novak, III) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Organization: Cynics Central On 8 Apr 1999 14:39:01 -0700, Rimrunner wrote: >Ever seen a goose in attack mode? Yeah, actually. We acquired a goose or two a few years back. Poor sense of migratory direction, apparently; the thing[s] nested on the roof of the building I work in. Then, eggs were laid (lain?), and sumbitch if the fuckers didn't hatch. The first year, something of a comedy ensud, since apparently baby gooselets don't fare well if their first flights start five floors up and go straight fucking down toward hard flat pavement. (I have no idea if this is true or not. What matters is that secretaries believe this is true. Including secretaries of vice-presidents who are important enough to barge into any meeting and start asking unrelated questions about whatever topic happens to have caught their interest. This week it was wavelets. But I digress.) Thus it was that an Expedition was mounted-- get the gooselets off the roof without killing mama goose and ideally without being killed. Facilities had a hell of a time managing that. (This is why we don't get lights changed very often.) Peeve: By now, we have an entire tribe which is due to arrive probably within the month from points south. Fuckers are absolutely brazen, waddling around the compound getting in the way. They show no fear of cars. They show no fear of cars with horns blaring. The secretaries won't let me shoot any of them. I swear, one day I'm gonna snap and teach those fuckers some respect. Twenty pounds of bird, three thousand pounds of car. Momentum will win every time. Especially before my morning coffee. -- John S. Novak, III jsn@concentric.net The Humblest Man on the Net