PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-727
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 727
JUNE 2013
32
PS 727
JUN 13
I like
your fire,
young man.
Well it
is
patented
now, sir, but I still
need a respected
authority like you to
win over sponsors
and convince a
manufacturer to
mass produce
this handy little
doohickey.
Despite Cassiopeia’s dramatic pleas and Carl’s arguments, the professor is
unmoved and the young people part in tears. But a few weeks later, disaster
strikes while the professor is away at a conference on cranium coolers.
it might have rivaled the
Great Fire of London, had
not a frantic Carl burst
into the Byrnbrights’ home
waking Cassiopeia just
in time to save her from
certain death by BBQ.
Oh, Father,
you should
sponsor this
brilliant
invention.
And
risk
destroying
my scientific
reputation?
Never!
Go home, young
man, and invent
something
truly
useful, like a bird-
powered blimp.
e=mc
2
=
♥
Call
me Carl,
please.
You’re
not 80,
and I’m
not 8.
Father!
Come see
what Mr. Younger
has invented. He
calls it a…
… Erm, a
what-cha-
ma-call-it.
Zounds! I know
you.
You’re that
whippersnapper who
comes to my lectures
and babbles on
about some nonsense
called “preventive
maintenance!”
That’s right, sir. Now I’ve designed a
dealie-bob to
do
PM. This contrivance
dissolves creosote lickety-split…
… eliminating the danger
to chimney sweeps, while
also reducing fires by an
estimated
43 percent.
Poppycock
and patent
nonsense!
Later it was
discovered the fire
began in a baker’s
chimney up the street
in a flue overdue a
proper scrubbing.
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