It's also much easier to explain Katz Schrodinger's various grenades if the Slapstick Effect is in force. It doesn't matter how close somebody is to one of those when it goes off - they still don't take any damage from casing shrapnel....

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Rob Kelk

"I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to mis-attribute this quote to Voltaire."
- Avram Grumer, rec.arts.sf.written, May 2000