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- From: daniel@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Daniel Bowen)
- Subject: TOXIC CUSTARD WORKSHOP FILES #128
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.050419.5854@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Summary: Farewell to '92
- Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system)
- Reply-To: tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu
- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:04:19 GMT
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- Farewell to ninety-two
- What a funny year it's been
- With Windsor castle burnt to a crisp
- And taxes for the Queen
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- While Charles and Di untied the knot
- Anne re-tied her rope
- But Fergie and that Texan guy
- Just wanted a quick grope
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- America showed how it loved
- To be ruled under Bush
- Now all George can do is say
- About the Contras, "Shhhh!"
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- Spaniards went Olympic mad
- With all the usual stuff
- S While much to Dan Quayle's dismay
- o Murphy got up the duff
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- This state got a new gov'
- w And I don't want to be rude
- h But it now looks like we all have
- a Been well and truly screwed
- t
- Batman flew, and flopped again,
- w The Pope went under the knife
- i Custard readers went without
- l While I married my wife
- l
- They said the recession would end
- h But they were wrong again
- a Jobs down, deficit up
- p *AND* those bloody late trains
- p
- e The USSR fell apart
- n Toxikistan free at last
- Yugoslavia tried the same trick
- i Which was a complete blast
- n
- A Korean sect thought the world
- ' Had reached the apocalypse
- 9 The troops arrived in Somalia
- 3 And even shut up peaceniks
- ?
- It's been a year both good and bad
- W But don't despair, you see
- e For all in all it can't be worse
- l Than nineteen ninety-three!
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- o WARNING!
- w DO NOT READ THIS NOTICE
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- s People who read this notice will be burnt alive in a cauldron of
- h boiling oil, cut up into little pieces and fed to the alligators. But
- o first, we'll torture these people. We'll be really nasty. We'll call
- u them names. We'll subject them to endless poetry. And when they're
- l really really sick of that, *then* we'll burn them alive.
- d No! First, before we're really nasty to them, we'll be really nice
- to them, just to make the nastiness that little bit more nasty. We'll
- I give them cakes. We'll take them for picnics in the country. We'll give
- them big parcels with fluffy teddy-bears inside. And *then* we'll be
- k really nasty to them.
- n But wait! Before we're really nice to them, we'll be impartial to
- o them! We'll ignore them mercilessly. We'll pretend to be interested in
- w what they're talking about, but actually pay no notice whatsoever.
- ? We'll contradict them, interrupt them, agree and then contradict them
- again all in the same sentence. And *then* we'll be really nice to
- - them.
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- m MR POPSICLE RETURNS - Part 9
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- n Inspector Sideburn had a name. Jake. It wasn't *his* name, it was a
- o name he'd picked up in a pub toilet. Normally he protected himself
- t against picking up things in toilets, but in this case, it was a name
- he'd been looking for. Inspector Sideburn, you see, was hunting the
- b culprits of an armed robbery which had been committed what seemed like
- l a lifetime ago. And probably was. So, as the author munched his way
- o through yet another Toblerone, Sideburn knew that this name would be
- o handy.
- d The name "Jake" was, Sideburn postulated, connected to the surname
- y "McGiggin". Jake McGiggin was a well known person of criminal
- tendencies, which in Sideburn's book, made him a villain. McGiggin was
- N also owner of McGiggin's Rock Quarry ("We Love Getting Our Rocks Off").
- o So Sideburn decided that he should go and discuss his suspicions,
- s beliefs, worries, personal problems and possible solutions with
- t McGiggin. Man to man. Or, allowing for suitable police back-up, man to
- r man with half-a-dozen heavily armed colleagues. And he didn't mean
- a fellow police officers with thick elbows.
- d When Sideburn got to the quarry with his henchmen err colleagues,
- a he found Mr McGiggin, and sat him down in the obligatory darkened
- m office with one piercingly bright lamp to have a little chat. In fact
- u Sideburn had brought along with him a special police van equipped with
- s such an office. The Intimidating Room Module was a recent police
- , development which had revolutionised interviews.
- "Well Jake. I hear you've been up to a thing or two."
- a "Err... yeah. Well, you know, I *did* buy a new dinner set for my
- m mother-in-law's birthday. But I didn't think that was a criminal
- offence no more, Mr Sideburn."
- I "Shut up Jake. Now just listen. Stop playing games. Put the chess
- ? set away. I wanna know about the robbery."
- "Robbery? What robbery?"
- The interrogation err interview carried on like this for several
- dozen more paragraphs. But as luck would have it, the readers were
- spared of this, and picked up the story just as Sideburn left the
- quarry, without a confession, without any evidence, but with a rather
- bad mood, which he relieved by kicking the police station cat when he
- got back.
- He had to admit it - he just couldn't crack this case. It had him
- bewildered. There were less leads to this case there were leads in a
- pet shop at the end of "Take Your Dog For A Walk" week.
- There was only one solution. One which would be predictable to
- those readers more acquainted with the ways of these pathetic stories.
- Call in the experts. They'd solve it. The pros. The Australian Royal
- Security Establishment.
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- Yes, Popsicle finally makes an appearance
- next week in Toxic Custard! But I still
- wouldn't recommend holding your breath
- until then, because you'll suffocate. For
- details about subscriptions to this drivel
- mail tcwf@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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- Copyright (c) 1992 Daniel Bowen.
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- Daniel Bowen, Monash University | Good luck for the New Year, and try not to
- Melbourne, Australia------------| get squished during the after-Christmas
- daniel@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au----| sales. Also try to avoid falling through
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- escalators, but above all, GET THAT BARGAIN!
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- Daniel Bowen, Monash University |
- Melbourne Australia | POPE GETS GRIT IN MOUTH!
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