What year is this?"
Hawkins shrugged. "We call it 7-B-936. That's no help to you. It takes a long time for these metals to oxidize."
Plenty! I could write books. Get some smart young fellow to put it into words for me and I'll bet I could turn out a best-seller. What's the setup on things like that?"
"It's about like that. Smart young fellows. But there aren't any best-sellers any more. People don't read much nowadays.
"The show of shows! The super-show! The super-duper show! The quiz of quizzes! Take it and stick it!"
There were shrieks of laughter in the background.
"Here we got the contes-tants all ready to go. You know how we work it. I hand a contes-tant a triangle-shaped cut-out and like that down the line. Now we got these here boards, they got cut-out places the same shape as the triangles and things, only they're all different shapes, and the first contes-tant that sticks the cutouts into the board, he wins.
"Now I'm gonna innaview the first contes-tant. Right here, honey. What's your name?"
"Name? Uh—"
"Hoddaya like that, folks? She don't remember her name! Hah? Would you buy that for a quarter?" The question was spoken with arch significance, and the audience shrieked, howled and whistled its appreciation.
A glowing sign said:
MOOGS!
WOULD YOU BUY IT
FOR A QUARTER?
He didn't know what Moogs was or were; the illustration showed an incredibly proportioned girl, 99.9 per cent naked, writhing passionately in animated full color.
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