There's a scene in Peter Benchley's "Girl of the Sea of Cortez" where the heroine Paloma does this for a manta ray.

Good book, by the way.

There's a shop not far from here which, three years ago, was selling these for ten quid a go.
That's nearly fifteen of your American-type dollars.

Thing is - most aircraft emergencies these days seem to originate in the passenger/luggage compartments.

The one I want is Larry Niven's "variable sword". A monomolecular thread with a bead on the end, held in a stasis field. Slices through anything cleanly, can be extended up to several meters.

Perfect for tiling, woodwork, brickwork, plumbing...just about everything.

Oh, and can I borrow your medbay (Niven's autodoc) to put fingers back on, please?

It really belongs on radio, where it started. It came out just before my 16th birthday and one or two friends and I were instant fans.
I had to explain to our son that I had to wait years before hearing it again - though I had the LP it wasn't the same.

~I'm proud to say that three of our four would shred the costume, and any human silly enough to try to put them in it. Chlorine - well, she's just daft.

Near us there's a carpet shop "WELLIINGTON CARPETS"

I've never been in there because I just know I'd have to mention in and they'd either be cross because they already knew, or cross because they didn't know. So I just drive past it from time to time.

Like an updated version of the Morrison Shelter>

Definitely Seuss. When I was a kid we only had The Cat In The Hat and, I think, The Cat In The Hat Comes Back.
When we had kids we made sure we had the lot - it's one of the things that shaped both their senses of humour.

Son and I were swapping lines while we were at work today.
"You are so mercifully free of the ravages of intellect."
"You say the nicest things, master"!
"I know. I'm sorry."

I had to explain Subscriber Trunk Dialling to him.

This is one of the many activities in The Great British Sewing Bee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_British_Sewing_Bee

It's spiffy to watch.

That's fine if you can take caffeine. Me - I'm more than happy with it, by if by accident I give the other half my coffee instead of hers she spends the rest of the day falling over. De-caff has its place.

Sounds a bit too close to Opal Koboi.