Ponder looked again at the single sentence Hex had written.
+++ Mine! Waaaah +++
‘I don’t actually think,’ he said, gloomily, ‘that I want to tell the Archchancellor that this machine
stops working if we take its fluffy teddy bear away. I just don’t think I want to live in that kind of
world.’
‘Er,’ said Mad Drongo, ‘you could always, you know, sort of say it needs to work with the FTB
enabled…
‘You think that’s better?’ said Ponder, reluctantly. It wasn’t as if it was even a very realistic
interpretation of a bear.
‘You mean, better than “fluffy teddy bear”?’
Ponder nodded. ‘It’s better,’ he said.
Terry Pratchett, The Hogfather
