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From: Colin Plumb <colin@array.uucp>
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Subject: Re: Gummit Paranoia
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Or you can consider the time I was wandering around downtown Toronto
at 4:00 on a monday morning festooned with needle-nose pliers, a
crescent wrench, vice-grips, wire cutters, a pin punch (very useful
for breaking locks open, BTW), screwdrivers, and various other
evidence that I would win an encounter with anything mechanical.  On
my back was a knapsack filled with 50m of climbing rope, a harness,
webbing, a descender, carabiners ... just what all those urban
commandos in movies need.

Nobody even looked at me oddly, but it would have really troubled 
any paranoid authorities.

(To forestall all the mail, it was a late-night fantasy gaming session
which was "come as you are"; we'd try to tranlate the person that
walked in the door into GURPS terms and dump them in a situation.  I
adopted the Boy Scout's motto and came prepared.)


Colin