normally at this stage herr flik would have hung up the phone and thought dumkoff , but desperate times require desperate measures so on another line he instructed the switchboard operator to rouse all the architects and tell them he wanted them , or their resignations at or on their boards in thirty minutes , and for the remainder of the night every printer and fax machine on board the sea sprite was churning out bumf for her , first in german , then after another phone call , in english .