re: #216 Decatur Deb

Default ALLAMAGOOSA: by Eric Frank Russell

No-one can explain the ‘offog’, and no-one has a clue what it is. Fearful of admitting to his superiors that the item has been lost, he fabricates a little white lie that he’s awfully sorry, but the ‘offog’ had disintegrated in a hyperspace jump.

The story ends with the captain staring at an urgent telex recalling every ship in the galactic fleet, at a cost of trillions of dollars, pending a serious, official investigation….

They’re jumping in hyperspace but still using Telex to communicate LOL