Bad Machinery by John Allison for March 05, 2020

I love evil characters who remain evil and dangerous to the end.

Anyone for a bit of deus ex machina?

Wronk wronk wronk wronk. Perfect! I never realized how that sound is spelled.

This volume of water is probably enough to dislodge the fatberg, freeing Tackleford’s chamber of commerce from its curse and making it even more effective in taking business away from Wendlefield.

Well, so much for real estate values around the “Inland Marina”. Let’s hope Lottie’s Mum has already pocketed enough gentrification money to enable her to survive the coming crash in property values.

So “sluice” is a verb now. “I’ll just sluice this over to here. There! Done!”

Yeah, I didn’t think a little sewage was going to stop Miflin that easily. Considering all he’s gone through just so to pursue some honestly rather petty revenge fantasy, it was at best only going to slow him down.

And seriously, who IS going to try and restrain him? I would hate to be the guy who looses THAT coin toss. :(

Had to look up Weil’s disease. I thought it might involve an irresistible impulse to sing about capitalist oppression.

Aren’t flood dreams usually associated with eneurisis?

Weil’s disease is leptospirosis

It’s commonly known as a nasty zoonosis

It eats at your liver and sometimes your lung

It’s the worst of the curses that Wendlefied brung.

THE SLUICE IS LOOSE!!!

E.coli is not so funny – I had it as a blood infection once and it damn near killed me.

But, the way its used here is OK.