ldn't do anything either. I thought maybe he wasn't
trying--or that he was one of them and didn't want to let me in on it.
He said they sounded--funny. By that, he meant strange or alien, I
thought."

"Well, I'm sure they must be," Ann said, relaxed now that John's
outburst was over.

"Yes. But that's _not_ what he meant--he's just a normal human genius.
He _meant_ funny." He lifted his hand. "Know what this is?" He held up
the strange object on the string. "It's a _yo-yo_. An _extra-dimensional
yo-yo_. And you were right--that thing _is_ a comic book. Look," he
said. He held the odd object toward her. "See this? J.H.--Jacky Hodge,
one of the stupidest ones. It's _his_ yo-yo. But I was right about one
thing. We _are_ being invaded. It's probably been going on for
centuries. Invaded by _morons_, morons with interstellar drives,
super-science--super-_yo-yos_! Morons from the stars!"

He began to laugh again. Ann went out to the kitchen for another glass.
Then, after a while, she went back for the bottle.

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