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  1. Charles Stross _ The Rhesus Chart

    Hate the sin, love the sinner: it's hard to stay pissed off at someone for doing something wrong if you know you'd have done exactly the same thing if you'd been standing in their shoes.}
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  2. Charles Stross _ The Rhesus Chart

    Dear God," whispers Pete, "it's full of posters!
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  3. Charles Stross _ The Rhesus Chart

    And rumor has it that the Central Ammunition Depot hanging off Box Tunnel still contains two thousand barrels of iron-tipped English longbow arrows, in case it becomes urgently necessary to re-fight the Battle of Crécy.
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  4. Charles Stross _ The Rhesus Chart

    The official Government Random Number Generator used for seeding new encryption keys is a thing of legend, running as it does on a type of punched paper tape that hasn't been manufactured since the 1950s. {We had to invent some really neat hacks using digital cameras to read it into our oldest trailing-edge minicomputers in order to use those numbers . . .}
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  5. Charles Stross _ The Rhesus Chart

    {I gather Andy is still in full-on Office Flying Dutchman mode . . .}
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  6. Charles Stross _ The Rhesus Chart

    Did it have a name, this project?" "Yes. The books and posters are called MAGIC CIRCLE OF SAFETY, but she said I'd find it in the stacks under a very strange reference-KGB.2.YA-what's so funny? Bob? Are you choking? Bob? Bob? Do you need help?" Kiss Good-Bye 2 Your Ass: I love the Laundry sense of humor."
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  7. Charles Stross _ The Rhesus Chart

    See, it's the sudden cognitive whiplash that does it. One moment you're cruising along effortlessly at thirty thousand feet while the cabin crew slosh the whisky around in business class, the next you're in a screaming death-spiral with flames pouring from the hole where the starboard engine was meant to be before some toe-cheese puked a missile up its exhaust. It takes a little time to switch mode from business-as-usual to six-alarms-emergency if you're not primed to expect it,
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  8. Charles Stross _ The Rhesus Chart

    Emma has switched from sanguine to sanguinary in a matter of seconds,
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  9. Charles Stross _ The Rhesus Chart

    That's all right, pay no attention to me, just make yourself at home," I tell the self-propelled whoopee cushion, then audit the itemized receipt with a sinking heart. Judging from the bottom line, cats fall somewhere between a new Porsche and a used Lamborghini in running costs, and I've got a nasty suspicion that I'm not going to be able to expense this claim. I mean, I might be able to concoct an experimental protocol that involves hosting one all-black specimen of Felis catus in the lap of luxury before sacrificing it on a summoning grid-but I suspect that would annoy Trish, and one should always avoid pissing off the departmental secretary.
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  10. Charles Stross _ The Rhesus Chart

    Imagine, Sir David, the end of all you ever wanted brought about because an idiot banker did not prioritize highly enough a simple request from their master . . .
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  11. Charles Stross _ The Rhesus Chart

    And he's maneuvered Old George into a position where the only way to safety lies through the New Annex. Things are about to get very messy indeed, for blood-on-the-walls values of messy.
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  12. Charles Stross _ The Rhesus Chart

    One moment you're cruising along effortlessly at thirty thousand feet while the cabin crew slosh the whisky around in business class, the next you're in a screaming death-spiral with flames pouring from the hole where the starboard engine was meant to be before some toe-cheese puked a missile up its exhaust. It takes a little time to switch mode from business-as-usual to six-alarms-emergency if you're not primed to expect it,
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