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***************************THE BACK ISSUES**********************************
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***********************PARTS THIRTY-SIX TO FORTY****************************
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(Written by Daniel Bowen, Monash University, Melbourne Australia)
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If war had stopped, I couldn't have used this.
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Get fat now! Ask me how!
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A Recycled Title Production
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B Y - M R - L U X U R Y - Y A C H T - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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N U M B E R - T H I R T Y - S I X - - - - - - - - - - - 1 8 - F E B - 1 9 9 1
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GULF NEWS - PENTAGON EXPLAINS MILITARY JARGON
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The Pentagon held a news conference last night to fully explain some of the
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military jargon that is being used in official news releases.
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- CDHU - Collateral damage humanoid units - people who get in the way. Not
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that we're purposely aiming at them, but let's face it, it's no
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loss really as they probably aren't Christians and most don't even
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speak English. That's what comes of not being born on the right
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side, in a God-fearing country; serves 'em right, really.
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- FM - Friendly missile - one of ours. The Allies now have friendly missiles
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fired from planes and ships pounding the Iraqi forces continuously.
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Friendly missiles are identified by a big smiling face painted on
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the warhead. Damage as a result of friendly missiles will now be
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known as "friendly damage", and the explosives inside the warhead
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are known as "friendly explosives."
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- NWISSBM - Nasty-wasty Iraqi scum-sucking bastard missile - one of theirs
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- OTRCNNXF - Off The Record CNN Exclusive False-report - given to CNN by us
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so that Saddam will believe it to be the gospel truth. Neat, eh?
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NEW ALLIED WEAPONRY
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The Pentagon has announced the deployment of selected recently developed
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weapons in the Gulf; part of the US Government's continuing commitment to
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support Allied forces with the latest technology:
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- The SKM - Shit-Kicker Missile. When this baby hits them Iraqis, the shit
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really hits the fan!
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- FBT - Fucking-big tank. This tank is 150 feet wide and 200 feet long, and
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it's purpose is to make the ground war much simplified by simply
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running over enemy soldiers. Special decapitation implements on
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the underside of the tank ensure Allied victory. In normal
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circumstances an Allied RCM (Refuse Collection Module) would
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follow behind, preventing any environmental damage to the desert
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by scooping up the human blood 'n' guts.
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- TXjet - Specially developed fighter/bomber for use by Texan pilots. It has
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an enlarged cockpit to cope with their hats.
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- BVM - now installed in all troop-transport planes, the BVM (Burger Vending
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Machine) now features the new IraqiBurger for only $1.45; it helps
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our forces feel at home. To fully simulate a Florida McDonald's
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environment a computer-controlled rifle installed in the plane can
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be programmed to fire at random.
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- FMFM - the FM installed Friendly Missile - so called because it has a
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built-in FM stereo receiver which plays the "Star Spangled Banner"
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as it explodes into its target.
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*ring* *ring*
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HELLO, 000 EMERGENCY CALL. WHAT SERVICE DO YOU REQUIRE?
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Fire.
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METROPOLITAN FIRE BRIGADE EMERGENCY SERVICE.
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Hello, send a truck, there's a fire.
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LOCATION OF THE INCIDENT?
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Hell!
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SORRY, LOCATION OF THE INCIDENT PLEASE?
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Hell!
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PARDON SIR?
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I said, "Hell".
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PLEASE STATE THE FULL ADDRESS OF THE LOCATION OF THE FIRE.
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Oh, okay. Hell, 43 Apocalypse Road, Underton, Postcode 6666.
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AND YOUR NAME?
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Satan.
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MR SATAN, HOW BAD IS THE FIRE?
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All I can see is flames... everywhere... all around me...
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ALRIGHT MR. SATAN, THE FIRE ENGINES ARE ON THEIR WAY.
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CAN YOU EVACUATE THE AREA?
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No, no-one can ever leave the ever-lasting depths of Hell.
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OH DEAR. BETTER SEND AN EXTRA LONG LADDER AND SOME ROPE.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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We are sad to report that Toxic Custard Workshop Files returns
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next Monday with even more of this comedic crap.
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______________________________________________________________________________
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Zis is Custard - ve have no subject here
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| oxic / ustard \ /\ /orkshop |_ iles Number 37, 25th Feb, 1991
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| \_ \/ \/ | Ratiing: Below average
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Calendiar, having made it through a three-year delay at passport control,
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made his way back to his London flat only to find he had been evicted and
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the whole block had been converted into a multi-story carpark and
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naughty-sheep emporium; with the furniture, fittings and marauding llamas
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still intact. He decided to emigrate, and after purchasing a new set of
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clothing and more luggage to replace his lost set, caught the tube back to
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Heathrow for the duty-free; then caught a taxi to Luton to catch his
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plane.
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The taxi-driver took a wrong turning and ended up in Saudi-Arabia
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during a SCUD attack. Never mind, thought Calendiar; I was going there
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anyway. By this point in the Gulf War, Iraq had in fact run out of
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warheads, and was sending over SCUDs armed with bean-bag beans. So in fact
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even if the missile didn't hit the ground, the Saudi weather-bureau never
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failed to be inundated with irate calls complaining that they hadn't
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forecast snow. The fact that Iraq was still able to obtain bean-bag beans
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in a time of war annoyed the US immensely, and they immediately set about
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initiating a UN resolution against the importation of bean-bags and in
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fact all other types of lounge seating to Iraq. "Never again" promised
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George Bush to the world, "will Saddam Hussein be able to lie back
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comfortably as he watches CNN."
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When Iraq had run out of bean-bag beans, they resorted to another
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lethal payload to drop on the Saudis and Israelis. One that would not only
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cause horrific injuries, but also work away at Allied morale and human
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dignity - camel droppings. The Allied commanders commented that they were
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in deep shit; and they meant it. Could this, combined with artillery
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shells loaded with propaganda leaflets proclaiming "Saddam is a really
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swell guy" overwhelm the Allied "we are the coppers of the world and we
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don't even have truncheons, and even if we do, we never beat civilians
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over the head with them" forces?
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Not bloody likely matey. Within two weeks of the shit-loaded SCUD
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attacks commencing, Allied scientists, working round the clock at a
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dung-farm in northern Virginia had developed a shit-proof protective suit
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to be used by Allied forces.
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Meanwhile Calendiar, desperate to find what he was looking for,
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searched the cities of the world. He went through Rome, Paris, New York,
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Toronto, Rio, Berlin, Madrid, Luxembourg, Brussels, Sydney, Los Angeles,
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Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, and finally, Bordertown, South Australia. It
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was there that he found it. Finally. A settlement that *didn't* have an
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American Express office. Fact is, all the air-fares had gone on his Amex
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card; and Calendiar needed to lie low until they had lost him completely
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and gave up trying to bill him. Amex had agents everywhere. Calendiar
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wasn't really in espionage, though he had worked as a part-time
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plain-clothes spy for 7-11.
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...POSSIBLY TO BE CONSIDERED TO BE CONTINUED OR DISCONTINUED
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DEPENDING ON THE DETERMINATION OF THE CONSIDERATION...
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We live in a society full of cards. Bankcards, Visa-cards, Amex-Cards,
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playing cards, video-shop cards, keycards, phonecards, Medicare cards,
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travelcards, concession cards...
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But now comes the ultimate card! As long as you have your
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_________________________________ TOXICARD with you, day or
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From TOXICARD Enterprises
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TOXICARD- Don't leave International
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rec.humor without it.
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The name's Scone. James Scone. OO7 - licensed to bake.
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Custard Vol 1 (which is much better than this cruddy episode).
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- Braincells of the rich and famous
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- Tax dodges of the rich and famous
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- Illicit drug-smuggling of the rich and famous
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(*) Apocalypse permitting
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Sounds more impressive than it is.
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Is your Orang-utan broken? Is your chipmunk useless at singing? Has your
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gibbon snapped? Or part of your gorilla fallen off? If so, why not contact
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Gorilla Repairs Pty Ltd. We are fully licensed servicers of all popular
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It's time for
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##########C ####### ##W ## ######### ##### ##### NUMBER 38.
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O## ## S ## ###R ## ## I / ## ## ## 4TH MARCH 1991
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## I ## A #### ####S ## E / ## ## ## BY MR. LUXURY-
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________________________________P________/___________________________________
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*SPECIAL CLEARANCE*
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We have the ULTIMATE gift for anyone in your family. We are clearing our
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OVERSTOCKED supplies at RIDICULOUS prices! This is a bargain not to be
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missed - genuine unused United States Military BODY-BAGS. Below cost! How
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much would you expect to pay for one of these handy containers, which will
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carry anything up to the size of a corpse? Don't ask! Because we'll throw in
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another 9 body-bags for just another $2.00! That's right, you get the
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beautifully boxed set of 10 body-bags, for only $49.95 + $5.05 postage and
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packing! Send no money now, we'll bill you later.
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From Pentagon Clearance House Pty Ltd.
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For those interested, there is an exhibition of pelicans' urine samples
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currently running at the Museum Of Art And Science And Quite A Lot Of Other
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Junk Which Isn't About Art Or Science But Which No-one Else In Their Right
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Minds Would Put On Display, in Swanston Street. Entry charge is $2 and a
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recitation of Wordsworth's "Daffodils" in a vat of toxic custard (see below).
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Also featured are the amazing works of leading surrealist artist Frederick
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Tapedeck, carefully sculptured from sheep's intestines. Messy, but relevant.
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Other fascinating exhibitions coming to the MOAASAQALOOJWIAAOSBWNEITRMWPOD
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include a history of public toilets and a display from the science-fiction
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Zoo of Atlanta comprising of twenty-seven "Doctor Who" fans in their natural
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habitat (crowded around a television, boasting about how many rare video-tapes
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they have).
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If taxis are the prostitutes of the road, what does that make buses?
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LOCAL NEWS
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The Sandringham City Council's fact-finding scuba-diving tour to Portsea had
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to be cancelled last night when it was discovered that the Council don't
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actually exist. Local resident Martin Believable stormed into the Council
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Chambers during a meeting to consider the redirection of Council funds away
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from the Soup Kitchen Project towards the Black Lesbian Immigrant Co-operative
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of Drama, waving a banner and proclaiming "None of you exist - you're just
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figments of our imaginations!"
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The meeting was postponed when the Mayor, Mr Leadertape stood up and
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replied "Oh yes.. you're right; and pretty twisted imaginations they must be,
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too" and promptly vanished, along with the other council members.
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Eyewitnesses at the scene say that two minutes later, the entire Town-Hall
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suddenly vanished in a puff of smoke. A consortium of local businessman
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promptly began funding a search operation to find the council so they could
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buy the vacant land off them for development into a multi-story carpark.
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The EPA moved in on the site to investigate claims by a local psychic that
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it might have lead-poisoning. They worked through the night and discovered
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that the site had been used for many years as a secret dump for waste from
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nearby toxic chemical plants, dead bodies from certain organisations based
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in and around Milan and defects from a local pencil company. The EPA declared
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the site totally unsafe and the State Government announced a scheme to buy
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up the land and sell it again to someone who wouldn't know any better.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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This has been another of the weekly doses of Toxic Custard Workshop
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Files. Take only as directed, and if sanity persists, see your Sysop.
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Comments, complaints, etc etc to tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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The genuine TOXIC CUSTARD is now available at selected supermarkets(*).
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Made using only the finest of chemical waste products, TOXIC CUSTARD is a
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smooth, lumpy, tasty, revolting cocktail of substances that will leave your
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guests writhing on the floor in pain and/or ectasy.
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(*) Also available from 7-11 at twice the price.
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What song is that?!?
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####### ##### # # ###### TEMPORARY NUMBER 39
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# # # # # # COFFIN 11TH MARCH 1991
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# # # ## # ###### WRESTLING
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# # ## ## # FEDERATION WRITTEN BY MR LUXURY YACHT
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# ##### # # # tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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THE PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS
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These recently re-discovered quatrains, translated from the original Latin,
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have been interpreted by James Wiseguy, professor of Prophecy, Monash
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University.
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"The battle will be short, and the Shrub will force the Sad Man to back down
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over the land. Nineteen shall be eight once more."
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This is clearly a reference to the recent work on my garden
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by workers from the Mandas Gardening and Landscaping Company.
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I knew I had been quoted $800, but they insisted on charging
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me $1900.. just goes to show you can't be too careful when
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getting work done. So, was Nostradamus a representative from
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the Consumer Affairs department? Possibly.
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"The large blackhead will smite the Sad man to bits."
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While some believe this to be a reference to General
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Schwarzkopf (schwarzkopf is German for blackhead), I firmly
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believe that this refers to the large blackhead that has
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appeared on my face, which somehow has increased my resolve
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to get my $1900 back off the gardening people.
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"The weather will be generally fine, with a little cloud drifting over from the
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west in the later part of the afternoon and a few isolated showers in the
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north."
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Well, this is obviously Nostradamus' weather forecast. Nuff
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said. Probably more accurate than one from the Bureau of
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Meteorology.
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"Years from now, a bunch of scumsucking bastards will make a packet of
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money out of interpreting my forecasts."
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He was probably right. Oh, look for my new book, "Nostradamus
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and Me" by James Wiseguy, Capitalist Books Ltd, $49.95.
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-- James Wiseguy
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Right, so what's the plan?
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WELL, WE'VE GOT THE ELECTRICIANS COMING ON MONDAY. THE SEC WILL CONNECT
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THE POWER AT DAWN.
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Right on! Let there be light! Okay.. Tuesday?
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ON TUESDAY CARPENTERS INSTALL THE HEAVENS
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Oooh.. I hope they bring all the right tools, it'll be a hell of a job.
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YEAH.. WELL, I WARNED THEM, SO THEY SHOULD BE READY. THEY KNOW WE'RE
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WORKING TO A DEADLINE.
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Good... next is the Sun and Moon, right?
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NO, SUN AND MOON IS THURSDAY; THE EARTH IS ON WEDNESDAY.
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Ah right. Make sure the plumbers get everything finished.
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THEY WERE WHINGING SOMETHING ABOUT THE OZONE LAYER NOT LASTING FOREVER
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LAST TIME I SPOKE TO THEM
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That's not our problem; you tell them that. Anyway, who cares?
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WELL, THEY RECKON IF THE ICE MELTS THE SEA LEVEL WILL RISE.
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Well nothing lasts forever... we've got to defrost the thing every once in
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a while.
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YEP.. WELL, SUN AND MOON ON THURSDAY.
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Ah right.. well I hope we're not out of matches. Better nip down to the
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7-11 and get a box. We'd look pretty stupid if the Sun wouldn't light.
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TOO RIGHT. I CHASED UP THE GAS COMPANY AND TOLD THEM TO MAKE SURE
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WE'RE CONNECTED ON THE RIGHT DAY.
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Good. Is the pebble-dashing for the moon finished?
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NOT QUITE, BUT THEY SAID IT WILL BE FINISHED BY THURSDAY.
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Okay.. now about Friday.. the RSPCA will be there, so we have to be very
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careful.
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CHRIST, WHAT DO THEY WANT?
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They wanna make sure the conditions for the animals are natural and that
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we treate them humanely.
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HMM.. NOW, WHAT ABOUT SATURDAY?
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Hmm.. well, the medical specialists are due at eleven, the plastic surgeons
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at 11:30, and a team of gynacologists will be here at midday. So man should
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be up and running about and getting his rocks off by the mid-afternoon.
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That's about it really. See you in the pub on Sunday for some serious
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resting..
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SEE YA.
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supply on the Monash computers being fiddled with over the next
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All efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy
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## ## ###### This is hereby proclaimed as the fourtieth
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## ## ## ## edition of the Toxic Custard Workshop Files,
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## ## ## ## which really is quite remarkable as it must
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########## ## ## be the biggest load of crap to come out of
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## ## ## Monash University since business psychology
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## ## ## was introduced to the computer course. But
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## ###### more people have laughed at this than that.
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TOXIC CUSTARD WORKSHOP FILES #40 - 18TH MARCH 1991 - BY MR. LUXURY-YACHT
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No sooner had Calendiar moved into his brand new house in Bordertown than
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the South Australian and Western Australian governments decided to move
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the state border to somewhere more geographically significant; to a bit
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west of Broken Hill, NSW, to be precise. Well, the South Australian
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government didn't really agree, but after the SA State Bank collapse, they
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had no money, and had in fact sold the whole state to Western Australia.
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The fact that WA had paid for SA on someone's Mastercard that had been found
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down a well in Tibet didn't seem to worry anyone.
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Calendiar woke up one morning to find that his cat had exploded. This
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was not entirely a surprise to him, as it had not looked well for several
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days. As he scooped the bits off the ceiling and into the pie he had
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made for the bratty little kid next door, he got even more of a surprise.
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What surprised him was that during the night a crack team of architects
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and builders had built an American Express office next door. Calendiar,
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under cover of a large blanket, ran out the back way to a nearby pair of
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roller-skates, and roller-skated interstate, as he was still trying to
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dodge his Amex bill.
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He settled down in the small Queensland town of Yalbaroo, and was quite
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happy living there until something came through the letter box which would
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change his life. Something which would occupy his time almost constantly
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for the next six months. An offer from Readers' Digest.
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Readers' Digest were desperate. They needed new readers constantly, but
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rarely gained any because everyone knew their condensed books (just add
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water) were a load of crap. So they decided on a new marketing campaign.
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They would concentrate on one person at a time. That person would be
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bombarded with at least ten letters a day, offering the chance to win
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millions of dollars, little cheap false-brass bookmarks made in Taiwan,
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and even cheaper pen sets made by a little old man outside Bogota.
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It was all a ploy to force you onto one of their "Readers' Digest
|
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Condensed Books for people who can't be bothered reading the whole novels
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and who probably can't read anyway but want to look at least semi-studious
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when visitors come around and don't already know that our condensed books
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are a load of bullshit" programmes, of one book a week for the next
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four-hundred years, at $23.37 each (plus $700 postage and packing; each
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book coming in it's own personal lead-lined coffin).
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Calendiar, having an IQ higher than fifty, was determined not to get
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sucked in by this campaign personally directed at him. The Readers' Digest
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promotions department of course invisaged this, and the number of offers
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mailed to him was increased exponentially, until after a few months, letters
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from them to him alone took up 97% of the capacity of the nearest post
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office at Mount Ossa. It was then that Australia Post moved to remedy the
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situation, and gave Calendiar his own post-office nearby.
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Mr. Calendiar
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c/o Calen Post Office
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Queensland 4798
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But now Calendiar had a problem. During a night at the local pub, he got
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completely shit-faced, and like any other bout of SERIOUS drinking, this had
|
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destroyed a number of his brain-cells. Normally this wouldn't have mattered,
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but on this occasion it had destroyed the brain-cells associated with
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remembering how to eat bananas. This too, wouldn't have been a problem,
|
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but Calendiar loved bananas with a real passion. But let's face it- who
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cares? It's his own bloody fault, stupid git... But anyway...
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Calendiar got a job as a giraffe, elephant and hippo cleaner at a zoo.
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A special device was designed specifically for cleaning the upper section
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of the giraffe. In fact it was a sort of sponge that wrapped around the
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neck of the giraffe, with a powered motor that could move up and down the
|
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giraffe, cleaning and rinsing as it went, in just over twenty minutes. A
|
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similar device was adapted for elephants. The zoo had been under a great
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deal of strain, with the mysterious death of one of the llamas, which had
|
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been named after her donator, a Mrs Paula Turntable. For weeks and months
|
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afterwards, everyone had wondered... "Who killed Paula Llama?"
|
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But Calendiar enjoyed his cleansing activities at the zoo. All went
|
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well in this job, until one night in a frenzy, one of the elephants raped
|
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him. There was an enquiry into the incident, but it was found that Calendiar
|
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had been behaving in a provocative manner, by twitching his nose rather
|
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|
too much.
|
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He gave up the job, and went back to his search. The one he had been
|
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|
on for several installments.. trying to remember what he really was. The
|
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desperate mission, that the author was still trying to think up.
|
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|
TO BE CONTORTED...
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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A VERY VERY SHORT EXCERPT FROM THE NEW AUSTRALIAN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
|
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|
(From an idea by Julia Wilkinson)
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|
SCOTT: He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
|
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|
[KYLIE appears at the window with her pet wombat]
|
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|
But strewth! What light through yonder wombat breaks?
|
||
|
It is the east, and Kylie is the sun.
|
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|
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
|
||
|
Who is already sick and pale with grief
|
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|
That thou, her maid, art far more bonza than she.
|
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|
Be not her maid, since she is envious.
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Custard begins at forty. This was the 40th edition
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of the Toxic Custard Workshop Files. Please keep calm
|
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|
and remain at your terminal.
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Copyright (c) 1991 Daniel Bowen
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May be copied or reproduced without permission
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provided this notice remains intact.
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Daniel Francis Bowen | Remember - jumpers are
|
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|
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia | clothing's way of telling
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