| Friday, May 6, 2005 |
14:32 - This guy might need an intervention
http://mfdh.ca/writing/scoop_diary_archive/04-1111.html
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Via BrianD comes this story/adaptation that's just a little bit too well executed for its own good.
Nadim Zero leaned back in the booth and boasted that he had made the Red Sea Run "in less than twelve miles." Reading Salim's blank look he continued: "I've outrun British customs boats. She's fast enough for you, old man. What's the cargo?"
"Only passengers," replied Salim smoothly. "Myself, the boy, two clerks, and no questions."
Nadim Zero chuckled. "What is it? Some kind of local trouble?"
"Let's just say we'd like to avoid any...American entanglements."
It wasn't until I reached the end that I realized that this was done by Matthew Frederick Davis Hemming, the guy behind the Darth Vader blog. I should have seen it earlier—the Canadian diction should have been a giveaway. After all, no one country is big enough for two people this terminally geeky...
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Brian Tiemann
