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***************************THE BACK ISSUES**********************************
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*********************PARTS SIXTY-ONE TO SIXTY-FIVE**************************
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(Written by Daniel Bowen, Monash University, Melbourne Australia)
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ENTIRELY WHOLESOME TOXIC CUSTARD
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And on the eigth day, which was a Monday if I remember rightly, the Lord
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did have the computer installed, so he could keep track of everything.
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--##---------#####------TOXIC-CUSTARD-WORKSHOP-FILES-#61------Chop a tree
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## ##### ### 9th September 1991AD \ down today
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######## ### ### Written by Daniel Bowen \ for a
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### ### #### (tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu) \ brighter
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-############----#######-----------------------------------------tomorrow A
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login: peter
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gateway. Also be aware of attempted break-ins into
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Today's thought: There are no razor blades in heaven o
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god console Jan 1 0ABB 00:00
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Name: Daniel Francis Bowen Record no.: Earth/27081970A/47264 g
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DOB: 27/08/1970AD DOD: 15/09/2093AD e
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IQ: 67 Death: Smog suffocation ,
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0001- Hit sister with gumboot. (1972AD)
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0002- Once stole 20 cents from the family telephone money box. (1979AD) w
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0003- Enjoyed "The Life of Brian" several times (1986AD-2090AD) o
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Church, and later making an obscene amount of money into the d
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bargain. (1990AD-2047AD) e
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0005- Owned a Filofax. (1991AD-1996AD) r
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0006+ Awarded "Wonderful Human Being" award. (1997AD)
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0007+ Donated large amounts of profits to worthy charities, including w
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Salvation Army and Public Transport Corporation. (1995AD-2092AD) h
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Destination re-determined: Heaven
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Message from god (console) - TCWF? I kinda liked it! n
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So we hastily hid on the floor. y
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A silence in the air dispelled t
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We all pretended not to be there, a
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Quietly opened the window to let in some air. n
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What were we burning? There was no doubt. o
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The man went away, and crashed his Merc.
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Now he comes every week- tenants beware u
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Following up their hugely unsuccessful "Pommy" heavy-metal opera, s
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Megabogue will shortly begin their "We Need The Money" tour. Band t
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occasional-spokesman Bonk Mee told reporters that tour budgets have i
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already been worked out, including fan funeral and stadium destruction o
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insurance. "This tour will be something else!", he declared. Megabogue n
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will kick off their tour at Chisholm hall on Thursday September 19th s
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(what a subtle plug!), in front of a crowd of people who will be ?
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expecting something else.
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Bonk also complained that Megabogue were totally ignored at the MTV
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awards, purely because they didn't do a music video. P
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Back issues are available.. e-mail for details. a
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Copyright (c) 1991 Daniel Bowen e
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Daniel Bowen, Monash University | If you thought cars were
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Melbourne, Australia | a form of penis extension..
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---------------------------------| ever tried driving a semi-
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TCWF -- tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu | trailer? Or a road-train?
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NUCLEAR-FREE TOXIC CUSTARD
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Is this a Shakespeare parody that I see before me? No! It's just...
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|____ ____| TOXIC CUSTARD WORKSHOP FILES #62 - 16/9/91
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Ever been to a school reunion? A night of seeing people you remember Y
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("Charles! Mate! How you been, what you been up to?"), trying to guess e
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the names of people you think you remember ("Oh.. it's.. erm.. you! How s
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you been, what you been up to?"), being remembered by other people who ,
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you don't remember ("Erm.. yeah, of course I remember you! .. erm..
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anyway, How you been, what you been up to?" while thinking "who the r
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hell is this?"), and, of course, seeing if other people remember you e
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("Leanne! Hi! .. Remember me? ... No?... Daniel.. Yeah, Daniel.. Yeah, a
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that's right! How you been, what you been up to?"). And of course, you d
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can get embarassed at all the old photos. e
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-Of course. And your first name? Otherwise we'll be here all day, .
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looking through a pile of seventy-six sets of holiday snaps taken by .
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seventy-six different Smith families on their boring holidays to Great .
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Keppel Island for a fortnight one Summer two years ago that they
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haven't bothered to pick-up yet because they know very well that t
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they'll have to stand around all day while we look through the pile of h
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seventy-six sets of holiday snaps taken by seventy-six Smith families i
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on their boring holidays to Great Keppel Island. s
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insignificant little nobody! Would you mind terribly much if I didn't
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ask for your autograph? I'll just find your photos. They're probably w
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among the seventy-six sets of holiday snaps taken by seventy-six Smith r
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families on their boring holidays to Great Keppel two years ago. i
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-Lost? But.. How? u
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-Well, that's what happens when we have seventy-six sets of photographs r
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under the name of Smith from their holidays on Great Keppel Island one y
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Summer two years ago. Things get lost. I do sympathise with you, they .
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must have been historic and memorable moments for you and your entire
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family. Thank you so much for entrusting us with your memories. Which W
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we've lost. Still, look at the good side-- if you leave the shop in the e
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next ten seconds, we won't charge you for it. Oh! Just a moment.. found l
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them! Here they are! Take a look! l
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-Hmm.. yes.. these are mine. Hey.. I remember that! The cat looks a
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little out of focus.. I never did know which dial was the.. oh m
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dear.. that one's a bit blurred.. and the cat's head got cut off. o
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Naughty old Michael with his hedge-clippers, dear dear dear. Look s
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at that.. see? That's where the RSPCA man hit Michael. Serves him t
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right. Not quite enough light in that one. Oh, there's a big black
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streak across the one of the policeman taking Michael away.. o
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machine erm.. processed, at the time. i
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onto some other photos from a family called Smith, from their holidays n
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on Great Keppel two years ago.. y
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off down the street, with the police car and me and my camera in y
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hot pursuit. Hmm.. looks like the vertical-hold needed adjusting. .
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-We'd better wrap this up and think of a punchline so you can piss off Y
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out of my shop and I can go and have some lunch. o
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of photos of the family up at Great Keppel on holiday, about two d
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years ago...
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It is your misfortune/privilege* to have reached the end of l
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another hilarious/stupid* episode of the Toxic Custard l
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Workshop Files. Back-issues are now available.. ,
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e-mail/vomit* for details. (Delete where inapplicable)
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Well, can we really define "end"? The term "end" is so often u
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misconstrued as the final apocalypse, when it may in fact be merely the l
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transfer of the life-force to better and greater things. When looking d
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at the cycle of life, it's important to realise these things. n
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Copyright (c) 1991 Daniel Bowen
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Daniel Bowen, Monash University | Monash Comedy Revue! This Thursday, o
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Melbourne, Australia | 19th September at Monash Caulfield! u
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---------------------------------| Your only chance to see Megabogue ?
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TCWF -- tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu | LIVE in concert!!
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VITAMIN ENRICHED TOXIC CUSTARD
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### ####### TOXIC Number 63 - 23rd September 1991
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### ####### ### ### CUSTARD by Daniel Bowen .-----------------.
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##### ### ### WORKSHOP (tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu) | megabogue's |
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### #### ### ### FILES | POMMY |
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-----#######---#######-------------------------------------| Coming soon |
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`--------MoccaSIN-'
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CANNIBALISM AT MONASH CLAYTON
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The Cannibalism Party has launched its appeal for votes (please!!!) for H
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the forthcoming Monash Clayton student elections. Author's sister and m
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Housing and Transport Committee candidate Susannah Bowen said on a m
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campaign leaflet that "the only easy, cheap solution to the current .
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overcrowding on buses, in Halls of Residence and throughout Monash is .
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cannibalism." She would not deny that she doesn't actually want the
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job, and would not comment when not asked if her party's ideas were n
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influenced by the circulation of the "American Psycho" book around the u
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campus. Ms Bowen's brother and incredible superhuman goodguy Daniel was m
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expected at the time of writing to stop writing this bit any moment b
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now, and to go on to write something funnier. We hope. e
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The giant boulder came speeding down the corridor, crushing all in its 6
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path as it bore down on him, faster and faster. 3
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"Well, fuck me!" he exclaimed. "Granite, wouldn't you say, Doctor?" .
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"It's hard to say from this distance", replied Doctor Wedge, who .
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for convenience sake had lost his accent. "Perhaps as it squashes us
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flat, I could scoop a sample out of it for analysis?" T
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They stood for several seconds, watching it rolling down the e
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corridor towards them. You had to admit, they were being very cool r
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about it. But then, *Popsicle* was always cool about things. The Doctor r
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was too, usually because he didn't know what was going on. i
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*Popsicle* decided that this might be a good time to cease being f
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cool about things, and be quite alarmed about things, otherwise there i
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was a good chance that were the boulder to get much closer, they would c
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both be flat about things. .
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"Shhhiiiiiiiittt!" remarked *Popsicle* extremely uncoolly, as he
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flung the Doctor out of the way of the boulder and dived for cover, P
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unfortunately in the direction of a rather inconveniently placed o
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dung-heap. "Well, that's another cheap suit ruined", said *Popsicle*, p
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crawling out of the mire just in time to see the boulder disappearing s
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off into the distance, and noting that it was bright red; a somewhat i
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odd colour for a giant granite boulder. Though he had to admit, he c
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thought to himself (and to whoever was reading), that the simple l
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occurence of the boulder rolling down the corridor like that was fairly e
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odd itself, especially as they were in fact somewhere in F block at
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Monash University's Caulfield campus. He could only assume that it was h
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in fact a rather overdone piece of ceramics, which had rolled out of a
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the fine arts building. t
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*Popsicle* noted with superhuman suspicion that he appeared in the h
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current issue of the student newspaper (get your copy today, folks!),
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then went to collect the Doctor, who, having landed on the floor in one r
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of the rooms, was examining the texture of the carpet, and singing to e
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himself an old carpet-laying shanty. t
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"Oh we come with our carpet, hoo-hoo-hooray! r
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And our hammer and nails, all ready to lay! n
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We'll lay all your carpet in less than a day! e
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But if we don't get paid, then we'll take it away! t
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"*Popsicle*, I may be old and senile, and earning too much money e
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from the establishment, but even I can see that the hand you are d
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holding out to me is covered in dung", continued the Doctor (and he
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was right). "You're filthy, why don't we go and have a shower?" t
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"I will. You can keep examining the floor", replied *Popsicle*, h
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pushing Doc Wedge back to it for a closer look. i
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"Extraordinary.." said the Doctor when Popsicle got back. "This s
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carpet seems to be made of virgin wool."
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"Does that mean it's from a sheep that's never been shagged?" i
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"We're moving towards shag pile jokes, shall we continue this s
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dialogue another time?" s
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- G'day Lenny. .
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- Inspector Sideburn.. what do you want? a
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here and hassling me about concertos. I haven't heard anything. t
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There's been three violin soloists in just the past week! r
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- I don't know nothing about it. a
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- You? Huh.. don't think I've forgotten about that little stretch you ?
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did for those armed symphonies a couple of years back. And we never
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found the lute. I haven't forgotten. I'm sharper than you think. N
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- Look Sideburn, I haven't heard anything, honest. I've gone ,
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quiet since clink.
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- Well, maybe, Lenny.. but remember this. If I get a whiff of so much o
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as a tune-up, I'll be down on you like a grand-piano. I'm the law here, t
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and I'm not having any orchestras on my ground. Clear?
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This has been a not-quite-as-rushed-as-the-last-one edition a
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of the Toxic Custard Workshop Files. Back issues are l
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available; e-mail edb134tbp2@vx24.cc.monash.edu for details. l
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-- .
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Daniel Francis Bowen, Monash | LEGALISE CANNIBALISM NOW!
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University, Melbourne, Australia |
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---------------------------------| Monash (Clayton) Elections
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TCWF -- tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu | Vote 1 CANNIBALISM, for a tastier tomorrow
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/\_/ \__/ \___/ \__/ \_/\ .-Megabogue's heavy-metal opera-------.
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/\/ \_/ \__POMMY__/ \_/ \/\ | masterpiece "Pommy" is coming soon. |
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\/\_/ \__/megabogue\__/ \_/\/ | |
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/\/ \_/ \__/ \__/ \_/ \/\ | |
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\/\_/ \__/ \___/ \__/ \_/\/ | First single - "Brick Wall Painter" |
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/\/ \_/ \__/ \__/ \_/ \/\ | out Monday 30th September |
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\/\_/ \__/ \___/ \__/ \_/\/ | |
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\/ \_/ \__/ \__/ \_/ \/ `--------------------MoccaSIN Records-'
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| \ / | (Dah.. dah dah.. dah dah.. dah dah.. dah.. dah dah
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| \/ | .. dah dah dah dah dah .. dah.. dah dah.. dah dah dah
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| | \/ | * ** Welcome back to MTC. And now a big world
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MUSIC TOXIC CUSTARD metal opera "Pommy", this is Megabogue,
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Number 64 - 30/9/91 with "Brick Wall Painter."
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by Daniel Bowen J
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Ever since I was a young boy, Megabogue t
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I've sprayed phones in the mall. "Brick Wall Painter"
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From Footscray to Beaumaris Pommy h
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I must have sprayed them all. MoccaSIN o
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But I ain't seen anything like him,
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In any children's court... d
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That deaf dumb and blind bogue o
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A brick wall painter, y
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He's really such a git.
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Why do you think he does it? I don't know! r
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What is the appeal? a
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Rejection of society, n
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Or something deep like that,
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That's what the doctors tell us w
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But it's a load of crap. o
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He's really just a vandal, Megabogue r
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And very bad at that... "Brick Wall Painter" k
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That deaf dumb and blind bogue Pommy ?
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What a stupid twat! MoccaSIN
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And now for some MTC News, and first of all, architecture.
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The new Lee Ning tower, which was deliberately built to tilt on an a
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angle of 3 degrees (or 37.4 Fahrenheit) has been brought by Pizza Hut n
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to be their new world headquarters. You can probably guess what they're
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going to call it. The police department rejected the building earlier t
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in the month because it wasn't bent. Besides, they didn't get around to e
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looking at tenders; they were too busy watching the AFL Grand Final. l
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?
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And here comes Hawthorn's half-back Tuck with the ball, a drop punt to
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centre half-forward where Brereton's waiting, what a mark! No, sorry, W
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what a Dermott! He handpasses straight to Jarman, who was momentarily e
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blinded by light reflecting off two hundred Eagles supporters' yellow l
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caps in the grandstand nearby. Never mind, they'll be wishing they l
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never heard of football once the game's over and Hawthorn has won by ,
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the predicted 53 points.
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Jarman falls over in a daze as Lockyer for the Eagles grabs the I
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ball, only to be set upon by ten surrounding Hawthorn players, and the
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umpire stops play for a bounce, due to the confusion over possession, c
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and to confuse any overseas viewers who don't understand the rules. The a
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ball is knocked out by the Eagles' Pyke, who is then knocked out by n
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Platten, who is still in a mean mood after pranging the car last week. ,
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Condon grabs the ball for Hawthorn, and kicks to Brereton, another
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mark for Brereton who if he touched his own balls as much as he's a
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touched this one during the game, would be completely blind already. c
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And I bet we get castrated by the broadcasting tribunal for that one. t
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Brereton lines up with goal.. he kicks McIntosh in the shin before u
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kicking the ball between the two big posts down at the end of the a
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ground there.. Another goal for Hawthorn, and the Hawthorn fans up a l
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notch in enthusiasm, and the Eagles fans go down a notch in depression. l
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That makes the score 19 18 to 13 7, or for Australian viewers, who y
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probably can't handle the multiplication, and anyone who doesn't .
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understand the weird scoring system, Hawthorn lead the Eagles 132 to
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86. And now we'll take a quick thirty second commercial break so we can T
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pay for this telecast and be back just a bit too late to miss the next h
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bounce of the ball. e
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DIARY MONDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER n
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Got up. Stretched quite a lot. Purred a bit. Went to back door to go w
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outside to relieve myself. It was raining, so I tried the front e
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instead. I asked Owner#1 to turn off the rain and make it a bit warmer r
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out there, but he didn't do anything. And he seemed angry that I didn't
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want to go out after all. Who wants to go out for a crap when it's i
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freezing cold? The Owners manage to keep the weather inside house warm s
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enough, and turn on the suns on and off, so why won't they do it for ,
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me, when I want to go out?
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In the afternoon, when it had stopped raining, I decided to get i
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Owner#2 a peace offering. I found her a very nice fresh bird, but she t
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just made a noise and gestured at me to get rid of it. I tried to
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insist, but then Owner#1 came and put it in the container thing in the d
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corner. I tried to get it back out again, but couldn't reach up to the o
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opening. e
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I complained about dinner while Owner#2 was getting it ready for s
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me. I must have said "I don't want that bloody Whiskas muck again" a n
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hundred times, but did she listen? No! When will they get used to the '
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fact that I'm sick of Sardine And Salmon? t
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After dinner I went out to watch the lights going past along the .
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black thing. Funny how those lights usually go past in pairs. I knew
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there was a storm coming, so I tried to get back inside. The Owners I
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were watching their box, so I had to shout at the window for a while
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before they let me in. They took their bloody time, I was soaking wet t
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by the time they opened the door for me. Still, I thanked them anyway, h
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by rubbing myself on their legs in appreciation. i
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In a further setback to the whole of humanity today, you .
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have just been reading another of the Toxic Custard Workshop .
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Files. Back-issues are available; reply to this, or e-mail .
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tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu for details.
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Copyright (c) 1991 Daniel Bowen.
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The brain-drain has hit. A
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You could tell, couldn't you? Don't answer that. It's basically a c
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consequence of assignments. The history of assignments goes back to the t
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17th century, when 16th century born French scholar and right bastard u
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Francois De'Crepit thought he'd piss his students off completely by a
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setting numerous numbers of theoretically useful but practically l
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useless exercises all due in a two week period about two thirds of the l
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way through what was to become known as the semester. He also developed y
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long sentences that had to be read at least twice before they made any ,
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sense like the previous one made any sense like the previous one.
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We live on a most remarkable planet. It's really very nice. Seen any of e
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it lately? Anyway, we all know that birds fly south for the winter. So
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what do birds down here in the southern hemisphere do? Maybe they fly b
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further south. No, then they'd end up in Antarctica (Americans read r
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"Andardigger"). So.. in winter, what do birds native to Antarctica do? a
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Yeah, the penguins. Perhaps they waddle south. They wouldn't get very i
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far. And they'd never come back; it's always winter at the poles. n
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CRIME STOPPERS: WANTED r
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James Wanton, 17 years old, 175 centimetres tall, wanted for not making a
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his bed this morning, leaving an assortment of unwashed dishes in his i
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bedroom, leaving his socks and underpants on the floor, and generally n
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treating the place like a hotel. If you know his whereabouts, you may
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be eligible for a reward of up to $1000 while remaining anonymous. Ring i
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Crime Stoppers on 865-5000. s
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We would like to appeal to all parents who own ferocious dogs - please o
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think before leaving the dog near the baby. Wouldn't it be better to
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leave the baby outside the house? Or better still, have it adopted out. b
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Babies can be quite dangerous.. you wouldn't want your best friend to a
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get bitten, now, would you? d
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Hello, I'd like to have a look at the Bowater shoes for $49 in the h
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window. i
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- Certainly sir. I'll just get them. What size?
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Oh.. erm.. It should say on the bottom of my old shoes.. I'll just e
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twist my foot around to get a look at them. hmm.. can't quite make it e
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out, it seems to have rubbed off.. I'll take a guess at nine. k
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- Here you are sir, size nine. Please, try them on. My God,
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what are they? I
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My socks. At least, that's what they smell like. c
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- Yeuch, how absolutely revolting. You'll just have to sign n
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this shoe-damage liability form. If any irremovable stains or '
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smells get left in our shoes, we have the right to sue you. So t
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there. Thank you.
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Thanks. Hmm, I'll just go for a walk in them. h
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- So, trying to steal our shoes, are you? We'll see about that! n
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No no, I just want to see how they fit.
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- Huh, sure! I'm ringing the pigs! f
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No no, please! Look, they seem to almost fit. I mean, I can feel my big a
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toes being crushed to a pulp, and my heels are about to burst out the n
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back, and I'm not sure the circulation is getting all the way around, y
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you'd better call an ambulance before my feet fall off. Not bad, in t
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all. I'll buy them. h
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- Okay. That'll be $98 please. n
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$98? They're in the window for $49!
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- That's $49 per shoe. o
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$49 per shoe?!? w
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- Yes. We do have a third off all prices today, but as you i
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appear to be a horrible mutant monster with green stalks for t
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eyes (eighty of them), several dozen tentacles, with pus e
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spurting out of the top of your head (who wrote this stuff, I
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feel ill), and three legs, it will be $98. d
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Oh. Here you are then, $98. w
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- Thank you sir. Now get out and never grace this shop with
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your aroma again. t
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From the man they called "Oi, you dickhead!" - you have been
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reading yet another mouth-sized splodge of a production from s
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the Toxic Custard Workshop Files. Back-issues are available; i
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reply to this thing 'ere, or e-mail tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu for d
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details. If you're superlatively unlucky. e
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Is tennis the work of the devil?
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Take a look, for instance, at the scores---> S. Edberg 6 6 6
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B. Gilbert 2 2 2
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Copyright (c) 1991 Daniel Bowen.
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