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A wordplay that nine-year-olds thought was endlessly funny in Battle School:
quote: "I'm guilty of being a child. And homicide, too, in some people's opinion." "Killing Buggers was not homicide." "No, I guess it was insecticide."
quote: She boots up the scanning electron microscope, works her way patiently and punctiliously through the setting and display option screens, and mounts the first of her prepared slides. With a pleasant tingle of anticipation, she puts her eyes to the output rig. Having chosen green as the key colour, she finds herself strolling under a canopy of neuronal dendrites, a tropical brainforest.
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If its ok to kill buggers because its not Homicide, its Insecticide, does that mean its legal to bomb small hotels because your committing "Inn-Side".
Don't get me started on what "Out side" would be.
Murdering the voice actors of that Pixar film with expensive pillow filling is only "Up-side down"
Shooting the actor who played Klinger would be "Farr-side".
Training hunting dogs to kill precious pollinators would be "Bee-side the Pointer"
Stop me before I pun again.....
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Stupid kids- don't they know that despite any external similarities since Buggers evolved on another planet they can't possibly be insects? There are probably all sorts of physiological differences...
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ender's game kind of has to live with the unfortunate future connotations of the word 'bugger'
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