{"id":122,"date":"2002-03-21T16:05:24","date_gmt":"2002-03-22T00:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=122"},"modified":"2005-07-20T22:23:05","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T06:23:05","slug":"come-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"come again?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Puzzling detail in a comic novel published in 1977. (Won’t say which, as I didn’t get where I am today by unnecessarily spoiling plot points.) Jimmy’s head has just been pulled out of an oven in Cornwall:<\/p>\n

\n‘Too soon,’ said Jimmy. ‘Wanted to die. Damned slow, this high speed gas.’ <\/p>\n

Reggie laughed. . . . ‘North Sea Gas isn’t poisonous.’\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Er, what? What sort of gas do they pump from the jolly old North Sea? H2<\/sub>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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