Questions about Doug's World

[Bob Schroeck]

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and being impartial and rather politic when necessary (which is the hardest part),

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God yes. I know this isn't the kind of politic you're thinking of, but I remember the time when we had that incredibly obnoxious liaison officer with the Security Council. I can't remember his last name; his first name was Robert, which is why it stuck with me, that and the fact that Dwimanor kept calling him "Bob". We all hated his guts but had to play nice with him. Except everyone but me was doing the "poisoned dagger in the velvet glove" thing, and I was honestly trying to deal fairly with him
More along the lines of what you were talking about, just as an example to our listening audience out there in radio land, is the time we had to deal with the resurrected French national superteam. The problem here wasn't just that they were defying the UN, but they had packed the team with PR booby-traps. The nominal leader was the last survivor of the WWII French Resistance supers, and half the team was made up of her grandchildren. The wrong action taken against them, and we would have ended up looking like Nazis ourselves -- which no doubt was someone's plan. We ended up opting, as I noted somewhere else, for a stern warning and withholding any other response until they actually do something official -- which so far they haven't.

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the whole thing has become institutionalized.

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As opposed to some of the team members.

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If they tried to make us wear those dorky baby blue helmets, for example, we'd be so out of there.

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Speak for yourself. I go through so many different colors of uniforms, adding a blue helmet wouldn't faze me a bit. You, on the other hand, would need twenty, and I can see how that might annoy you.


-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.