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Originally posted by tkkfan
It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.
For instance at the exact moment you said "This is Fluffy" a freak wormhole opened in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried
your words far far back in the time across almost infinite reaches of space to a distant galaxy where strange and warlike
beings were poised on the brink of frightful interstellar battle.
The two opposing leaders were meeting for the last time. A dreadful silence fell across the conference table as the
commander of the Vl'Hurgs, resplendent in his black jewelled battle shorts, gazed levelly at the G'Gugvunt leader squatting
opposite him in a cloud of green, sweet-smelling steam. As a million sleek and horribly beweaponed star cruisers poised to
unleash electric death at his single word of command, the Vl'Hurg challenged his vile enemy to take back what it had said
about his mother.
The creature stirred in its sickly broiling vapour, and at that very moment the words "This is Fluffy" drifted across the
conference table. Unfortunately, in the Vl'hurg tongue this was the most dreadful insult imaginable, and there was
nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries. Eventually the error was detected, but over two hundred and
fifty thousand worlds, their peoples and cultures perished in the holocaust.
You have destroyed most of a small galaxy. Please pick your words with greater care.
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Hehehe, Nice Hitch Hikers Guide Reference there.