Since it's already claimed one "victim"

[x_maker]

Apparently Overfiend One has a subroutine designed to prevent, shall we say, interlopers of the feline persuasion from absconding with the fish it collects. As in, a rather comical compressed-air cannon system that I just witnessed sending a purple furball across the room. Apparently Dr. Wallace had nosy cats, too.

Dr. McCoy, are you sure I can't disassemble it even a little? I've got the documentation that Dr. Wallace provided and -

Wait. Noticed something. More on that later. If this is what I think it is, I won't have to disassemble anything at all...

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[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

-snort-

You see, the rest of us have already been well trained. Doc. McCoy used to smack Doug with a rolled up newspaper when he was bad...

No, wait. That was Jamie.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

"Was?" :)

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

-snicker-

Of course you don't do it anymore. Remember the great esteem you hold his girlfriend in? And the terror of the umlauts?

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Oh! Right, right, them. Yeah, of course I don't anymore. That would be silly, what with the esteem and the umlauts. Don't know what I was thinking there.

[x-beast.livejournal.com]

That, young lady, is a vicious calumny.

It was a rolled up magazine.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

Favorite. Teacher. Ever.

And I don't know that that's really all that much better, since it was The New Yorker. You should at least have been hitting him with Scientific America.