Book 25-The Extreme "I'm not allowed to hitchhike.  Especially not with evil alien parasites. My dad is very definite about that." --Marco <Excellent.  With twice as many Venber, our project will be completed in half the time.> <At least he knows his math.> --Visser Three, Tobias <Say, Rachel, I got a joke for you.>  --Marco <No, you don't.>  --Rachel <Two blonds are standing across the river from one another...>  --Marco <Hey! Remember I'm a blond, too. It may be dirty-blond, but it's blond.>  --Tobias <Yeah, for a couple hours a week.  Anyway, the one blond calls out to the other blond, "How do I get to the other side?">  --Marco <That is very funny, Marco.>  --Ax <I haven't told the punch line yet, Ax.  And the blond across the river calls back, "You ARE on the other side!">  --Marco <That does it.  Time for Plan B.>  --Rachel <I've heard that one before.>  --Tobias <I am afraid I do not understand.>  --Ax <Tobias, where exactly did you hear that joke before?  A sparrow, an owl, and you, hanging out and swapping stories?>  --Marco <Break a leg, Ax-man.> <Whose leg?>  --Marco, Ax He (Ax) and Tobias had moved after Jake began complaining of some suspicious itchiness. --Marco <Kill two birds with one stone, as they say.  Sorry, Tobias.> --Jake