| Book 17-The Underground Terminator becomes Resuscitator --newspaper headline "So that's the nuthouse. I always suspected I'd end up here." --Marco "I don't think the patients probably like to be called nuts." --Cassie "Of course not. They'd have to be nuts to want to be called nuts." --Rachel <Cassie's right. It's not politically correct to call nuts nuts.> --Tobias "You know, I could swear I heard that bird talking. I must be nuts." --Cassie ..."So we get in, we find this George Edelman and try to figure out if he knows something about the Yeerks. Then we leave Marco behind and get out." --Rachel "Okay, I think we may have to put a limit on the number of nut jokes. This is serious...Every time we start to take something for granted we end up getting hammered. We'd have to be nuts to get careless...I say, we'd have to be nuts...oh, fine. Don't laugh. I don't care." --Jake <What about the Happy Meal?> <Why is the meal happy?> <That's how you signal. That's the code. You go up to the counter and say "I'd like a Happy Meal. With extra happy.> --Cassie, Ax, Tobias <If you're scared, I'll go in.> <I'm scared. Helf yourself.> There must be something kind of liberating, just being able to say "I'm scared." like it's no big deal. I can't do that. --Rachel, Marco "You know, from the point where Edelman said 'maple and ginger oatmeal,' I should have known this was going to end stupidly." --Jake "Instant maple and ginger oatmeal." --Cassie "Battles that invovle oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know? Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal." --Jake <Excuse me, but what is oatmeal?> --Ax "It's a kind of food." --Cassie <Is it tasty?> --Ax |