I will note that the colloquial "world's oldest profession" is practiced outside the human species and therefore is probably older than astronomy. I still did find the reference amusing.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Did you have a link, or are you talking with someone in there?

In Death From the Skies!, on page 2. I just got it today, and that's about the first thing I noticed.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

O, sorry. I haven't memorized it yet. Wait till page three, when he says "And I have no doubt whatsoever that astronomy can kill us."

He backs off, and re-phrases, but strong stuff. Taking on the mantle of World's Oldest Profession must be daunting.

Yeah, I should have specified which book I was talking about. However, being as how I put it in this section, I thought it clear that I was referring to one of 'em. My mistake.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

No problem! I probably should've been able to figure it out. But page numbers are good too.

I though it was flint-knapping.

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‘To those who regard “crime fiction” as some sacred icon which must follow a rigid formula, I will always be the man who writes 18-syllable haiku.’Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.