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Randy D Randolph is traveling on an ocean liner taking a cruise en route to the tri-annual Tilde Collectors’ Convention, which will take place in The Sandwich Islands this time. He is accompanying The Harada triplets (who paid his passage and all expenses, by the way), as they are on their victory tour for having won the Miss Osaka, Miss Nagoya, and Miss Kyoto beauty pageants. The three sisters, age 25, have hired Randolph as their English language consultant and tutor due to being their first venture abroad without chaperones. Of course, at their insistence, it’s a shared stateroom for all four of them (cough, cough).
Concealed in a secret compartment in his luggage, Randolph is carrying $325K in bearer bonds, possibly counterfeit, possibly forgeries, but let’s not split hairs. In exchange for the approximate equivalent in cash, he is to deliver the goods to the eldest daughter of a Sri Lankan coffee magnate who is posing as the Grammarian Laureate for her country, and will give the keynote address at the convention, speaking on the importance of proper tilde management. No one knows it, but she has gone rogue on her mother’s coffee empire and is financing the world‘s biggest anti-coffee activist group ever known. She’s also been carrying on a madly passionate lust affair with Randolph ever since they met in a Minnesota civil courthouse where he was answering outrageously frivolous restraining order claims, and she was filing paperwork to open her own private detective agency, the specialty being the search for long-lost lovers who retired a few years ago and volunteer locally to help out in the community and who suffered a debilitating injury that required hospitalization around that retirement date. Nothing too specific.
The cruise ship is also carrying in its cargo hold ten pallets with cases of various exotic massage oils that are used exclusively by gigolos, along with crates of bin and other monitoring devices.
What is the maiden name of the ship’s first mate?
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Why would you assume the first mate is not a woman? I’m calling Gloria Allred. Grrrrrrr.
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As a pronoun, one can also function in an impersonal, objective manner, standing for all people who are like the writer or for the average person or for all people who belong to a class. In the U.S., one is often replaced by you.
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