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| Melody Wildflower Kelly: | There are federal subsidies to mad scientists? |
| Helen Beta Narbon: | Mm-hmm. The Nussbaum Fellowship for Evil Studie and the Carlo Lombardi Useless Science Grant. Lifesavers. They were establihed during the Reagan administration -- one of the few additions to the domestic budget. Our industry was very ... helpful to the administration. |
| M. Kelly: | Mad scientists created Star Wars technology? |
| H. Narbon: | Mad scientists created Ronald Reagan. |
| M. Kelly: | I see. |
| H. Narbon: | Of course, this was before it became policy for all presidential candidates to be assembled in a lab in Minnesota |
-- from Narbonic by Shaenon K. Garrity, 2000-11-17