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{{a|opcoboone|}}<div style="text-indent: 20px;">When [[Opco Boone|Opco]], Algy and George filed into the ''Defence Against Indemnities'' classroom, | {{a|opcoboone|}}<div style="text-indent: 20px;">When [[Opco Boone|Opco]], Algy and George filed into the ''Defence Against Indemnities'' classroom, their regular teacher, Professor Cavalier, was nowhere to be seen. Instead a stout middle-aged management consultant sat at her desk, peering intently through a monocle at a clockwork contraption installed upon it. The machine was labelled “RISK TAXONOMISER”. As the class settled in the Professor gleefully twiddled the dials on the machine’s fascia. | ||
“Good Morning, Class!” she beamed. | “Good Morning, Class!” she beamed. | ||
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“Ma’am, where is Professor Cavalier?” asked Algy. | “Ma’am, where is Professor Cavalier?” asked Algy. | ||
Columbia Cavalier was the school’s usual Defence against Indemnities teacher. She was something of a legend in her own life. Now aged well over eighty, and frequently forgetful and prone to inappropriate outbursts may have been a crusty old malcontent and a dope fiend, but the children respected him for his practical and direct manner. They forgave him the occasional recess to toot medicinal opium — he needed it, he claimed, to alleviate the pain of injuries sustained at the Battle of Bretton Woods — and in any case it made the remainder of the class a whole lot more languid. | |||