Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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From the pen of Hasdrubal: Hannibal's little brother who lost Hannibal's reinforcements and supplies at the battle of Metaurus, ensuring Rome's ascendancy and Carthage's eventual obliteration. Yeah, that's about right.
"No," Magnan gasped. "I can never countenance it. Five thousand tiny lives lost to drape one back in finery! As a charter member of the Society for the Prevention of Atrocities to Vermin, Ickies and Nasties, I must protest. We of SPAVIN will rise in a body and boycott such purveyors of gribble-hide garments as do not themselves fall under our aegis."-- Keith Laumer, "The Hoob Melon Crisis," 1975
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"I just signed up to protest the wholesale slaughter of the awful things," Magnan was quick to point out. "I don't have to like them--"