Pansy Scheme.

Better than the Ponzi Scheme.

Even better than the Pyramid Scheme.

All or None.

If everybody is important...

Then nobody is important.

Casting the runes.

Those Vikings had a great sense of humor.

Leaving joke rune stones wherever they went.

Who What Where When Why?

Too many yachts and not enough journalists.

There's too much of that going around lately.

On the homefront.

The only way he can get the message across.

What gave it away?

Feeling faint.

Anything so fundamental to life can have that effect.

It was like all the oxygen had been sucked out.

Kid stuff.

Or he might have said, "I kid you not."

Pavlovian response to bells and sirens