《Bringing It All Back Home》作者： - Bud Webster【EPUB】

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BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME by BUD WEBSTER * * * * Illustrated by William Warren Any job needs the right people to do it, and conventional qualifications are not necessarily the best way to pick them. * * * * So what??s the verdict, Bubba?” The voice, although not unquestionably electronic, had a distinctly nonhuman timbre. It emanated from a small, flat box, rather like an Etch A Sketch, propped up against a particularly ugly lamp made from a small stuffed alligator. “Are we going to be on television?” “Don??t look like it, Mike.” Sixtyish but still burly rather than fat, Bubba Pritchert brushed his hand through his short, salt-and-pepper hair and sighed as he looked at the letter in front of him. “Jamie and Adam went to bat for us, but that wasn??t enough to make the cable suits change their minds.” He shrugged. “Oh, well, we??d have had to relocate to California, and I been there once. Didn??t care for it. I don??t suppose it??s changed all that much in the past forty-five years or so.” “I??d have thought that an experienced jackleg mechanic, an artificial intelligence, and an abnormally strong alien would have been a powerful asset to the Mythbusters, Bubba.” “Me too