Originally Posted by
Heathrow Harry
there's an old Sci-fi story about someone in Starfleet or similar doing that to an item they can't find but listed as "offog" - when the Admin Inspection is due they send in a routine message that the "offog" came apart under gravitational stress and was fed in to the engines........
It was a typo for "official dog".............. and the panic is universe wide...........
"Allamagoosa" by Eric Frank Russell. Won a Hugo Award in 1955.
Good yarn.
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