From: Demian Phillips <demian@cmhcsys.com>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [rec.arts.sf.written] Re: Bloom v. Potter
Date: 11 Aug 2000 14:51:20 GMT

Subject: Re: Bloom v. Potter
From: Daniel Silevitch <dmsilev@pha.jhu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written

In article <87k8dul0kd.fsf@globalreach.net>, Phil Fraering
<pgf@globalreach.net> wrote:

> jaquandor@aol.comREMOVE (Jaquandor) writes:
>
> > Did you ever see the Star Trek (Next Generation) episode where some
> > of the crew are trapped in an alien simulacrum of a ritzy 20th
> > century hotel?
>
> Yes. It's become one of my favorites over time, because it actually
> didn't take itself that seriously. And nobody reversed the polarity
> of the neutron flow or whatever...

I've actually, real-life, honest-to-god, solved a problem by reversing
the polarity of a neutron flow. OK, it was a neutron beam, and it was
the spin polarization, and it was for a neutron scattering experiment,
but that's not the point. I reversed the polarity of the neutron flow.