From: Charles Whitney <whit0435@tc.umn.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [rec.arts.sf.written] Re: The Grand List of Overused SF Cliches
Date: 7 Aug 1997 16:30:15 GMT

Subject: Re: The Grand List of Overused SF Cliches
From: rpearlmn@pipeline.com (Robert Pearlman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written

jdresner@login5.fas.harvard.edu (Jonathan Dresner) wrote:

>Cambias <cambias@heliograph.takethisout.com> wrote:
gaijin@mindspring.com
>>(Thomas Southerland Howard) wrote:
>>
>><snippety-snip snip>
>>>
>>> 13. The incredibly competent man-of-action with more skills/degrees
>>> than you can shake a blaster at.
>>>
>>13.5  The incredibly competent woman-of-action with more skills/degrees
>>than you can shake a blaster at, and really big hooters.
>>
>>Cambias

>13.5.5  Incredibly competent men and women of action of different species
>who interbreed without difficulty....

>Jonathan

That's truly incredibly competent men and women . . .