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Belly Laugh, by Gordon Randall Garrett
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Title: Belly Laugh
Author: Gordon Randall Garrett
Illustrator: Charles Berger
Release Date: April 30, 2009 [EBook #28643]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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[Illustration: Illustrator: Charles Berger]
BELLY LAUGH
By IVAR JORGENSEN
You hear a lot of talk these days about secret weapons. If it's not a new wrinkle in nuclear fission, it's a gun to shoot around corners and down winding staircases. Or maybe a nice new strain of bacteria guaranteed to give you radio-active dandruff. Our own suggestion is to pipe a few of our television commercials into Russia and bore the enemy to death.
Well, it seems that Ivar Jorgensen has hit on the ultimate engine of destruction: a weapon designed to exploit man's greatest weakness. The blueprint can be found in the next few pages; and as the soldier in the story says, our only hope is to keep a sense of humor!
Me? I'm looking for my outfit. Got cut off in that Holland Tunnel attack. Mind if I sit down with you guys a while? Thanks. Coffee? Damn! This is heaven. Ain't seen a cup of coffee in a year.
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