root-toot-toot

Updated: May 24, 2025

I couldn't have told them, 'This is little Allan Hartley, just thirteen years old; please, Mr. Policeman, go and arrest Frank Gutchall before he goes root-toot-toot at his wife with my pappa's Luger. That would have gone over big, now, wouldn't it?" "And suppose he really wants to shoot a dog; what sort of a mess will I be in?" "No mess at all.

H. Beam Piper - Time and Time Again