OFF: soaps and saps

Jon Browne jon at COMICS.DEMON.CO.UK
Wed Jan 21 10:14:14 EST 1998


In article <19980121140929.7949.qmail at hotmail.com>, Horse Whisperer
<beautiful_foot at HOTMAIL.COM> writes
>>Maybe what NASA need to do is sponsor a soap show around a Moonbase.
>>
>>FoFP
>
>This is a little like what Douglas Adams suggested - Convince the
>useless 3rd of the population (all the middle men) that there's a really
>good reason for going to a pointless place and then just let them go.
>And that's them gotten rid of.
>
>So let's ferry all unwanted people to the moon.   Hah.

He did quantify this by having the "useful" 2/3 of the population die
from the virus contrated from a dirty telephone. There was a point to
that plot element.
--
Jon Browne
Useless Middleman.



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