From: Paul Andinach <pandinac@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [rec.arts.sf.written] Re: Great/Favourite Mistakes in SF
Date: 7 Jul 2000 13:36:19 GMT

Subject: Re: Great/Favourite Mistakes in SF
From: cambias@SPAHMTRAP.heliograph.com (Cambias)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written

In article <394a085c.405499393@news.prodigy.net>,
sraets@prodigy.NOSPAM.net (Stefan Raets) wrote:

> On 14 Jun 2000 14:13:50 GMT, jsbassior@aol.com (Jordan S. Bassior)
> wrote:
>
>
> > I've never comprehended the logic of locking *anyone* up in
> > *anyplace* with tools. Let alone a group of people famed for their
> > ability to improvise weapons out of unlikely objects.
>
> I always loved those parts of the A-Team series.  They lock them
> in a garage with, let's see, an old shopping cart, a broken
> hamster cage and a roll of duct tape, and 2 hours later they roll
> out a fully operational battle tank.  Great stuff.

A fully operational _non-lethal_ battle tank.  The bad guys get hit
with melons, knocked into pigsties, and their jeeps get flipped over,
but nobody even gets a bloody nose.  Where the heck did a crack Green
Berets squad learn _that_?