...Ve Sonra Hiç Kalmadı by Eric Frank Russell

They also demonstrate their inalienable individuality (aside from the eccentric dress, men wearing four foot long pigtails and nose rings) by saying “Myob” very frequently to the pompous military types trying to get to meet with the president of this ridiculous planet. They call themselves Gands, from an ancient Terran philosopher named Gandhi. Everyone is busy putting obs (obligations) on other people and getting rid of the obs put on them. So, for instance, if I go to your restaurant and eat a nice meal then I have an obligation to you to do something in return, like fix your roof. They think money is a terrible idea that enslaves everyone. In fact, it is essentially a science-fictional retelling of a traditional tall story called 'The Shovewood'.The galactic patrol battleship bulging with 500 military men finally reaches a planet colonised 300 years ago by people who had some odd ideas about how society should work. James Nicoll has commented that it is 'apparently based on an urban legend'. John Joseph Adams has called it 'uproariously funny'. 'Allamagoosa' won the 1955 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Two days later, the entire fleet is ordered to be grounded, and the crew realizes that 'offog' was a typo of 'off.dog', short for 'official dog', and the headquarters are now grounding the fleet to conduct an investigation about how an animal could come apart under gravitational stress. The ship is soon ordered back to Earth for overhaul the crew, fearing that their deception will soon be uncovered, try to get rid of the 'offog' and message headquarters that it 'came apart under gravitational stress'.

The plan seems to work, and the ship passes the inspection. They devise a plan to pass the inspection anyway: going on the assumption that nobody else would know what it is either, they simply manufacture a small box with blinkenlights and feed the commanding officer some technobabble about what the device does. While preparing for an inspection, the crew of the starship Bustler reread their manifest and discover that they are supposed to have something called an 'offog' however, nobody knows what that is.

'Allamagoosa' is a science fiction short story by English author Eric Frank Russell, originally published in the May 1955 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and collected in The Hugo Winners (1962), The Best Of Eric Frank Russell (1978), and Major Ingredients: The Selected Short Stories of Eric Frank Russell (2000). Short story by Eric Frank Russell Allamagoosa

...Ve Sonra Hiç Kalmadı by Eric Frank Russell