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--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Avoiding Aliens, the much needed sequel to > Contacting Aliens. > ------------------ > > Highly classified note to all Terragen Field Agents: > > If you ever need to confront an er over a serious > matter, and find youself > caught in a crowd situation with mixed clans that > include Tymbrimi, or, and this > is hard to admit, more importantly, Tytlal, there is > now an established > procedure. > > If you confront the alien as a police officer, do so > in a flat unemotional > voice. (It may help to think of the last Hoon > official you've had to deal with.) > > It doesn't matter what language you're using. > > Identify yourself as officer, ______, with badge > number 714. > > Many Tytlal know to pick up on this reference to an > old TwenCen television > program. > > They will immediately claim to know you, back up > your story, or generally go > along with what's needed. > > An added clue may be used if you try to call for > backup and ask "Aircar > fifty-four, where are you?" > > The Galactic Library still treats most Earthclan > "flat" historic > entertainment as meaningless and not worthy of being > added to the Library's vast memory. > > If the Tytlal weren't interested in helping you in > your spying, they will be > instantly interested in participating in your "joke" > or "trick." > > Watch for a keyed response from the Tytlal. One or > more will indroduce the > word "rube" or "rubens" into a conversation. > > R.U.B.E. in this case stands for Regulation Uplift > Biological Entity. Or, to > put it more bluntly, an er that could never come up > with an original thought, > or any thought at all without first consulting a > Library Unit. > > "Rube" is a signal that they know that a trick is > being played. > > [Note, though the use of the word rube may have > originally come from a circus > background, there's a general feeling that the > Tytlal were already using it > for something else.] > > Secondly, if you use the badge number 714 routine, > watch for any finger > movements or drawings in the dirt, the tabecloth, or > even on one of their mempads. > > Look for two arc segmets, opposing each other. On > one end, the two end points > meet. On the other end, the two arcs cross each > other about three fourths of > the way down. > > If a galactic happens to catch the sign, any > research will direct that er to > the sign's historic religious meaning on Earth. > > But in this case, it has an entirely new meaning. > > It means that the tytlal who made it has played such > a trick before. And that > er has a full knowledge of Anglic. > > Well enough to pun, if needed. > > The Tytlal themselves suggested these code words. > They couldn't resist the > double meaning. > > If you use 714, you hope to have fish with Friday. > > William Taylor > -------------------- > D'oh duh D'oh D'oh > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l ===== . . * Please note. My email address of many years is changing FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... (Or else use [EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
