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After narrowly avoiding detection during the feather dance round of the interview, you are eventually asked to specify exactly which branch of the service you are applying for. You state you wish to work as a Ho with Sheps’ A-G-RP-B-H. This appears to pass muster and you progress to the next stage, glad you remembered the formal name of Shep’s Airborne GPS Reasonably-Priced Bluetooth Hos.
You complete the interview process and are despatched to the aerodrome. Things go wrong when, far from heading towards the Zeppelin sheds, you instead make for the tool shed. After some discussion with foreman it emerges that’s Sheps aerial lovelies were forced to drop the ‘Reasonably Priced’ part of their name as, due to the cost of operating the Zeppelin fleet, they weren’t actually that reasonably priced, though he is quick to maintain they are still fantastic value. He explains that under Bureau efficiency rules the acronym was reused for the “Arctic Geological Research Powered By Hoes” scheme, which you have now been signed up for as a Hoe.
Some considerable time later you return from the Arctic, well versed in Arctic geology and a master of using a Hoe. As a gesture towards the inconvenience suffered the foreman agrees to write a note to the Bureau explaining the mix up and why you are a tad late for your interview. Do you,