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"Lesley says she could write a book about my relationship issues, only it would be long, dull and pretty similar to all the other books on the market."

"The mist was thick enough that you practically had to be riding on the thing [carousel] to make out the expressions on the faces of the horses... I made a point of watching the ride for at least ten minutes, just to make sure nobody was aging backwards." Score! Bradbury reference!

"'Or is it called tape?' he asked.
I didn't tell him that it was all stored as binary information on rapidly spinning shiny discs, partly because I'd have to look up the details myself, but mostly because by the time he'd understood the technology it would have been replaced by something else."
That's it--he is as equally self-depreciating as provoking... nice balance.

"During that mess I ended up buried underground for a half a day, where I had a waking dream that still keeps me from sleeping. But that, as they say, is a whole different counselling session." Ha--they say that, do they?

"Are we forging the one ring?" I asked.

Officer training-perfect and true. "And then role-playing in the gym where we practiced how to handle suspects without having them fall down the stairs." He doesn't mean literally. :)

series of controlled experiments on Toby. Awesome.

So we had afternoon tea and pathology

PC Slatt-nice description that doesn't contain f-ability comments.

Cop humor: And there was a Big-Box Self-Storage next door (to the detention centre) which would be handy if the cells ever got overcrowded.