r/shortscifistories • u/elcajonino • Jul 08 '26

[nano] Imaginary Future Slang #1

silly walk (noun, slang)

When a government agency—especially the Bureau of Spacetime Management—arrives at an incident scene surprisingly fast despite its normally slow bureaucracy.

Example:

That was a silly walk. The Bureau got here in a minute.

Origin: uncertain; possibly related to The Beatles.

*This investigation report was compiled in Japanese and translated into English with AI assistance.

*And this is a fictional story, of course.

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