>My commentaries, to be written as I read the second time through:

>Tribble chow. Now he only needs to get her a tribble...

Background info here:

Tribbles (specifically, the Jones' Tribble, named after its credited discoverer) are a restricted dangerous animal under Federation law. It requires a special license to own a tribble as a pet, and part of the requirements for such a license is that the owner shall own, at any given time, no less than five pounds of a special formulated animal feed which suppresses the Tribble reproductive system. Given the incredibly robust nature of said reproductive system, the feed is -very very- expensive, and having 100 pounds of the stuff show up on your credit card bill one day is a rich person's equivalent of, "What do you MEAN six ten-minute calls to Paraguay??"

In the 25th century pet industry, the joke is, 'Few things are as cheap as a tribble, and few things are as expensive as tribble chow.'

>Mac! Buzz! G'kron! BATHERSON'S COLLEGE!!!

Is Mac supposed to buzz his roommate, your college, or both?

Or is this some bizarre display of support for an alma mater?

>"No."

(And anybody else besides Moose and Mac, knowing of Mac's experience with the instrument, would say, "Hell, no.")

>Okay, I gotta scram. I'll pick up at the first appearence of the
>Jackboot Brigade's minion.

Righto.

Redneck

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