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The story is set on board a military starship, the Bustler, but the tale is comic rather than heroic. The ship's officers and crew are facing an official inspection, and worry about having stores they should not have, or not having something that they should have. Checking, they discover that they are supposed to have an "offog", but no one has any idea what this is, so they create a bogus electronic gadget ("an imposing allamagoosa"
and call it an offog to fool the inspecting admiral, pretending that it is a special device to measure the intensity of gravity fields.
and call it an offog to fool the inspecting admiral, pretending that it is a special device to measure the intensity of gravity fields.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allamagoosa
Joe Biden, being the extraordinary VP he is will probably pull it off.
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