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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 7125104" data-attributes="member: 6777052">As the Persian carpet glided silently over occupied France, Moss pointed out a large white arrow painted on the fields below and asked THAC0 if he knew what it was for. "It is so that aeroplanes can find the landing field in the dark. It points to Flug Paris NE," he replied, then turning to Carp, he enquired "Wadd you car for simthong from ze tralley?""Nut root gnaw," said Carp, struggling to contain his mirth and stay in character. He had already changed back from his gendarme's uniform into his usual scale mail and the urge to shift his vowels had been relieved a little earlier.Ariadne was curious and asked THAC0 about the flying carpet. She was particularly interested in how it was woven into this thread but out of politeness she asked about the engines first."It's the new anagram improbability drive," explained THAC0 proudly. "The latest thing. One minute we are over Flug Paris NE, then in the blink of an eye, we are over the Persian Gulf."Ariadne was impressed. She looked down, and just beneath them was a wine-dark sea looking exceptionally Homeric[sup]1[/sup] with schools of dolphins frolicking amid the mosaics.Then, suddenly, but not wholly unexpectedly, everything went horribly wrong to the extent that he carpet turned into a long thin fish that dived into the sea and swam away, leaving the passengers bobbing about in the water wearing bright orange inflatable life-jackets. There had been a total systems failure, the ADV had dropped out and the an◦gram ◦ri◦e had turned into a marine gar.Deep down below them on the sea bed, something stirred ...[HR][/HR][sup]1[/sup] The phrase "wine-dark sea" has puzzled scholars for centuries. There is a theory that Homer drank a peculiar greenish-blue wine, the secret of which has been lost. Or maybe he confused the Aegean with the Red Sea after a bottle or two of a particularly fine claret. Authorities differ.</blockquote>

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