To deviate from the topic briefly.. I remember waiting to save up for the Exterminator... found a shop with it relatively cheap in the summer of 84... surreptitiously read the bio... then in the summer sale they dropped the price (if I remember correctly) from the usual Sterling 14.99 to 10.99!!!! Fkn Ey!!! I trooped in there with a tenner and used coppers for the 99 (that's just under 5 dimes for our american cousins). And without parental permission. But although I met my mum on the way back (hmm, busted to hell) everything passed by peaceably. Then I bought the Z Attack Cannon in the same sale for a fiver! Heaven only knows the innocent and eternally joyous happiness of a child at such divine(-wind) moments....
"The mind of a child etc."
Back on topic, I think we may confuse the nominative effusiveness of Laser to the Baron or others for someone mentioning his real name... although Eisenblut himself refers to Laser not only as a "top physicist" but also as a "vulcanologist" whilst preventing the dreaded hari-kiri on at least one occasion.
PS off topic, never found a gunner for that fkn cannon, although i've referred to its pre-jimbo transportability in extremis before.
: Damnable Romans! The Mediterranean is mine, I tell you! All mine! 
