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Added to prohibited items….
Remote controlled animals, up to and including any form of radio controlled spiders, raptors, furred, feathered or winged creature. Especially any remote controlled spiders.
Exemption: Excludes hippogryphs, and any fish controlled whilst using telepathy.

Items for consideration to be added on the next review of the list.

• Card games and tricks including but not limited to shuffling, throwing, sharking, flourishes, scaling, poker and blackjack.
  • Exemption: Nil.  Seriously, I am not allowed to grow up to be Gambit.
  • Exemption: Ad hoc poker. Professional, amateur or pro-am prohibited under the provisions of Temporal Certainty.
• Demon pacts, or related deals with devil(s) up to and including buying, leasing, renting or reselling souls.
  • Exemption: I’m allowed to sign contracts of service, work for hire, and consultancy agreements as long as I’m paid in cash or direct deposit. I may no longer accept souls of the damned as currency.
• Portraits that have the functional capacity to replicate the Dorian Gray Experiment.
  • Exemption: Flickr.
• Submarines. Conventional, nuclear or yellow.
  • Exemption: Empire Earth.
• An extraordinary array of currently science fiction technologies that may yet turn to science fact.
  • Time travel
  • Space ships
  • Most forms of star fighter
    • Exemption: A-Wings.
  • Most forms of capital ships, including the USS Enterprise, Battlestar Galactica, Shadow Fleet, Star Destroyers
    • Exemption: Rebel Blockade Runners
  • Light sabers
  • Chainsaws (Doom style)
  • Anything with the words “Portable” and “Thermonuclear” associated with it
  • Temporal anomaly
  • Mind reading equipment.
  • Time travel.
  • Advanced cloning technologies
  • Basic cloning technology
  • Unsupervised access to any form of cloning
  • Teleportation (all, any and some)
  • Any form of time travel that requires some form of clock motif, metaphor or messing about with a time piece which could result in a temporal loop.

Recent survey on trusting me with science fiction vehicles

• The West Wing (TV show, location) is going onto the Trebuchet list until further notice.  Further notice being the point at which I can no longer remain retired from politics.   The Season 2 finale just wrecks me emotionally each and every time I watch this scene. I know me well enough to know where that path will lead, and that’s in the “In case of emergency” only category.  Of course, in the event of that emergency, I plan to Barltet like none have Bartleted before in this country.  This update is scheduled to occur just after I’ve used this clip of the Bartlet vs. Richie Debate in a presentation in Perth on the dividing line between political marketing, social marketing, and the battle of “evidence driven versus ideological” social change. I am sneaky, and I am taking a risk using this particular scene to fire up the presentation to go into full flight. It’s worth it though. The 10 word answer remains one of my favorite lines of TV.

Any other suggestions for the list?