Deathbunny
"Mostly Harmless."
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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...the supine Jack.
Danny watched in glee...
...until he realized it wasn't on course.
There was a flaw in the Super Guidomatic Omni-Directionalizer.
Or rather a fly.
You see, the software was originally written in Belgium, a small European country with the unfortunate luck to share a word found to be so offensive in the populated universe that entire Trans-Global galas were cancelled and stricken from the Planetary Histories over a single, and often partial utterence of the name.
In revenge for this unfortunate luck, computer programmers of the country, mostly those who supported the only other profitable enterprise of B*****m, Weapons; created small very difficult to locate algorithms (as most algorithms in obscure one-off programming languages are) embedded into the lines of code that served only one purpose:
To detect the most critical time for the weapon to function and send it astray.
The "Finally, we Laugh at You" programs or "Fly(tm)"
This fly(tm) was flawed, however, and steered the B&DPW (r) at...
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