[HPforGrownups] "I see no ships!"

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 10325

Flying Ford Anglia wrote:

> Three hours later, FF awoke to the sound of distant screams.  He was
> adrift in the lifeboat, and surrounded by a ring of faces, most of
> them sprouting whiskers: three hags, a House-Elf dressed in a flour-
> sack and a couple of disgruntled cats.  He looked over the side of
> the boat.  In the distance, the gigantic shape of the H/H was angled
> at a dangerous slant and beginning a slow slide beneath the surface
> of the ocean.  He could just about make out the pregnant silhouette
> of the Captain near the prow, grimly determined to go down with her
> ship. Exhausted, FF fell back into the boat and soon drifted into a
> half-conscious state...
> 
> Ten hours later still, FF woke up again and all was silent, but for
> the gentle cackling of the hags and the lapping of brine against
> the sides of the boat.  He looked around the starlit waters and felt
> inner calm, but great sadness.  There wasn't a ship in sight.

What you forgot, Neil, is the Crazy Russian Cabin Boy standing on the prow
singing the Song of Time.

"Neeeeeeeeeeeear...Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar...whereeeeeeeever you aaaaaaare,
I belieeeeeeve that this bomb will go oooooooo-oooo-o-offfff..."

::ducks the rotten tomatoes and stun grenades::

--John

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John Walton                 john at walton.to

"Con-ser-va-tive, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
--Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", 1842-c.1914

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