The Rip in the Fabric of the Universe ...

[echnidna]

... spun around to the sound of thundering hooves. Everything was instantly overrun with maurauding hamsters. In a body they picked MF and Cecil up and threw them over the side. Then the hamsters threw all the loose stuff hanging around at MF and her brother until they sank in the mists.

Then another group of hamsters (the SAS branch obviously) appeared with Susan's book which also got thrown over the side.

Now we might have some peace so they all went off to the......

[Iain]

registry of births deaths and marriages to find out who in the hell Susan was..........

[craigb]

and surprisingly, it turned out that she was the great, great, great, great grandaughter of a rather surprising coupling betweeen Roger (VC &c) and ....

[echnidna]

... Germaine Greer

[Grunt]

Susan turned out ok but her full sister suffered from ...

[Driver]

... hackers, a dreadful affliction first brought to the world's attention by Aloysius Ozwinner, Emeritus Professor of Crapalogical Medicine at the University of Plenty.

Hackers had rendered the poor girl incapable of normal perambulation. She twitched nearly continuously and proceeded in a series of fits and starts. On a brief visit to the Very Little Gravitas Indeed during one of its infrequent stays in port, she had exhibited such alarmingly ostentatious symptoms of her malady that she blended right in with the rest of the crew and no-one noticed her presence.

Meanwhile, Susan had regained her book and was re-reading the last few paragraphs with an expression of absolute horror on her normally serenely composed features. She gasped

"My . . ."

[echnidna]

this book is all wet ......

[Grunt]

and so am I ...

[Caliban]

Which was too much for the normally gay Staines, and he grabbed Susan and proceeded to...

[craigb]

take her for a capucinno and regale her with the disaster called his love life.

"It's Frontbotom" he said "he just ignores me. Can't he see that i'm in love?"

"Hurrumph, men, exclaimed Susan as she picked at her eclair".


You know, if I could ...

[Harry72]

... get this eclair in my mouth in one bite, Eclair excliamed you couldnt "not in a thousand years"
"Im not your Eclair to pick at Susan" and with a stunning glare that could kill Ecliar mumbles "whats with that book anyway"
Susan grabs Staines and ...

[Caliban]

"What the ...?"

[fxst]

devil has happened to this page it was ok before MF got tossed........girls do your thing on Staines please............at that the girls rose like..............

[Caliban]

's axe at a slander fest and said to Staines " What you need sweetie is a few hours solid shopping"
And with that they got into a longboat and began the row towards the horizon, beyond which beckoned the bright lights of ...

[Driver]

... Proxima Centauri.

Although Proxima Centauri is 4.22 light years from Earth, it was only 3.22 light years from the current position of the Very Little Gravitas Indeed. A longish haul, admittedly, but no big deal for these chicks who had toughened their biceps from long sessions of beating up the Tarquins, Algernons et al (sorry, Al! ) with their hockey sticks.

Meanwhile, Staines ...