@[email protected] I'd be more worried by them specifying natural potatoes. Unnatural potato crisps sound like something from, well, a @[email protected] novel.
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(delivered by Mad Scientist in British cod-German movie accent):
"Vell, ve haf zis spare particle accelerator from ze Wendelstein-8X aneutronic fusion reactor program, zo ve are looking for ze commerzial applications …"
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@cstross
Spoken like a real CSU apparatchik! Now can I please have my flying taxi, Transrapid and H2-powered everything?
@quixoticgeek
@[email protected] I'd be more worried by them specifying natural potatoes. Unnatural potato crisps sound like something from, well, a @[email protected] novel.
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@mavnn @quixoticgeek Actually, unnatural crisps were invented by Gene Wolfe. True story! https://www.foodandwine.com/gene-wolfe-pringles-11729598
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@cstross @mavnn @quixoticgeek Wasn't Margaret Thatcher responsible for cans of spray cream?
And, IIRC, E. E. "Doc" Smith worked on getting icing sugar to stick to doughnuts.
@quixoticgeek @cstross @mavnn reminded of the story that Thomas Pynchon had been a technical writer for Boeing before publishing novels, with the implication that somewhere there is a 3,000 page avionics manual written like one of his novels. A Difficult Middle period.
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