Over in the discussion of the UF mini Agreement in Principle, this happened.

Pasha said:
>><1> Merc, I *really* wanna read what you have to think about NXE.

And then Merc said:
>AhahahahahaHAhahaHAha.

N.B. What Pasha doesn't know is that the entire conversation this ill-advised undertaking would engender has already happened, in person, somewhere in the public spaces of a hotel not far from the Pentagon in about 1998, between a weary and bewildered yours truly (who was just in the "I think I may be coming down with something" stage of what ended up being an epic bout of budget airline syndrome) and a younger and, imagine it, more aggressive Merc.

Who was wearing a T-shirt that said MEGAZONE AND GRYPHON ARE EVIL. JUST SAY NO TO EYRIE PRODUCTIONS.

Really.

This is a little like if Reagan had shown up for the Reykjavik summit wearing a DEATH TO COMMIES lapel button, but surprisingly, I have vague and illness-corroded memories of it turning out reasonably all right by the end.

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.