Snipe Hunts for the FNG
Freelance Traveller
(15 May 2016 23:55 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG
Timothy Collinson
(16 May 2016 02:09 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG
Timothy Collinson
(16 May 2016 02:27 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG Dave (16 May 2016 03:16 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG
Richard Aiken
(16 May 2016 04:06 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG
Kelly St. Clair
(16 May 2016 08:45 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG
shadow@xxxxxx
(17 May 2016 12:55 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG
Jeffrey Schwartz
(17 May 2016 13:15 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG
Timothy Collinson
(17 May 2016 15:09 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG
Jeffrey Schwartz
(17 May 2016 13:29 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Snipe Hunts for the FNG Dave 16 May 2016 03:16 UTC
I'm sure there is an equivalent of sending someone to supply or the flight line for jet wash. Also getting the new guy to sort the classified from unclassified chad (the little punch outs from punch cards or tape). Dave Your 'reality', sir, is lies and balderdash, and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever. - Baron Munchausen On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 7:27 PM, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote: > > On 16 May 2016 12:56 am, "Freelance Traveller" > <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote: >> >> I'm sure many people have read stories where a character is newly in a >> military or paramilitary service, and as part of the service "culture", >> is sent on bogus errands, such as a search for "fifty meters of flight >> line" or "last month's cannon report" or "a bucket of prop wash". (Such >> bogus errands are sometimes generically called "snipe hunts".) >> >> What sort of snipe hunts would exist in the various interstellar >> services in the Third Imperium? >> > > And riffing on the long weight/wait (which I'm sure I was sent for when I > worked as a student in a factory many years ago) or a sky hook, how about a > Jump Week or a void crane? > > Or maybe hazees are given a large denomination note and told to go to > Finance for some Vilani change. > > Oh heck.... It's 3.30am here and you realize I'm *never* going to get back > to sleep? I should never have checked my email! > > tc > > ----- > The Traveller Mailing List > Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml > Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com > To unsubscribe from this list please goto > http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=NZ2T1cCxApw0Kw5BG0ZuG6l28bIcPqVY