How about Sir Isaac Newton or Friday or Lazarus Long or Tamara or Maureen or Podkayne or HAL or the folks at Sector General or Captain Nemo or Little Nemo or Sister Fidelma or John Thorndyke or Rancid Crabtree? How about the White Hart or Callahan's Place or the raft with Huck and Jim floating down the river under the stars or Avalon or Camelot or Valhalla or Asgard? Wouldn't you just once like to sit and have a drink with Holmes and Watson or cross swords with Cyrano or trek with Oscar and Star or join the Mother Thing on an investigation? How about joining Biff, watching while his best friend grew up and adventuring with him along the way?

Geez, Amos, ain't you got no adventure and romance in your soul?