Aug 06
Alice Comments: You young ‘uns aren’t going off to no interstellar war until you finish your chores!
Published 1974
Alice Comments: You young ‘uns aren’t going off to no interstellar war until you finish your chores!
Published 1974
August 6th, 2019 at 10:33 am
“Now see here, which one of you stole my arms?”
August 6th, 2019 at 1:39 pm
I’ve heard of astronauts having to pee in their suits but when it reaches your neck it’s probably time to admit you have an incontinence problem.
August 6th, 2019 at 1:43 pm
Of course they’re rejects. They can’t even mow the lawn on their farm.
August 6th, 2019 at 3:51 pm
I just see one unusual three headed human.
August 6th, 2019 at 5:15 pm
“The Mod Squad” … in space!
August 6th, 2019 at 10:06 pm
“The Galaxy hereby rejects you, and sentences you to…Ohio!”
August 7th, 2019 at 12:03 am
“You three are the most incompetent new trainees I’ve ever met! Only Bob remembered his helmet – but then he hooked up a tank of swamp gas rather than oxygen!”
August 7th, 2019 at 3:06 am
Alternate blurb: The young, lowly space farmers were not just good at their job…they were outstanding in their field!
August 7th, 2019 at 4:07 am
If it’s written by Offutt, they’re having a three-way.
August 7th, 2019 at 5:21 am
‘Hey, pass that helmet over here. My bladder’s killing me!”
August 7th, 2019 at 6:15 am
“Why are we training in the weeds, sir?”
“So we can take cover quickly in case of an attack, of course! Now pay attention, dammit – I didn’t lose both my arms, twelve feet of intestinal tract, and the ability to make believable facial expressions in this war just to babysit a bunch of galactic rejects!”
(Cue theme music)
August 7th, 2019 at 11:56 am
It’s a bit unfair to write them off as rejects when they are so desperately short of equipment. Three people sharing one spacesuit is impractical enough, but with a helmet only big enough for two of them it’s completely unfit for purpose.
Time for a GSS fundraiser for impoverished space cadets?
August 7th, 2019 at 1:54 pm
@Verylate: Is this a platoon or a knitting circle?!
August 8th, 2019 at 7:17 am
How ya gonna keep ’em down on the farm when one of them suffocates because he won’t take his bubble helmet off on a planet with perfectly good atmosphere?
@Tor: Helmet would have to be bigger for The Mod Squad guy’s Afro.
@Adzel: GSS!
August 12th, 2019 at 6:04 pm
They may have been rejects, but they sure knew how to make a good scarecrow.
August 22nd, 2019 at 9:32 pm
Ah, the backward planet known as Minnesota.