Re: YASID ...





"David Langford" <ansible@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Have been landed with another ID request. I feel I ought to know this one,
> but my mind has gone all blank, probably owing to Worldcon Proximity
> Stress
> Syndrome ...
>
> "It involves a time machine and a woman (somebody's Mother?) who
> brings a dead species of Butterfly back to the present-day. Upon
> learning about this machine, a group of Nazis go and hold the woman
> hostage to try and force her to travel back in time and bring back Adolf
> Hitler..."
>
> Dave

Reminds me of a story i either read or was told about yonks ago. (Late
'70's?)

Time travel tourism in full swing but in enclosed walkways, a bit like
those through aquiriums nowadays, to stop the visitors influencing the past
and making new branches in "the trousers of time".
Anyway, a butterfly get into the air conditioning and is crushed by a
visitors foot. This butterfly, of course, was on it's way to lay eggs. One
of which was destined to be the caterpillar and then butterfly that a
certain A.Hitler (as a small boy) takes a swipe at with his butterfly net,
misses, and goes head first over a cliff... with hilarious results I
believe is the normal phrase...


Les
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"...The people can always be brought to the bidding of the
leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being
attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and
exposing the country to greater danger "

-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

- Benjamin Franklin, 1759


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