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From: jj@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Net Fiction
Message-ID: <4079@alice.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 13:11:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 30 13:11:47 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 31-Jul-85 20:01:36 EDT
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Organization: New Jersey State Farm for the Terminally Bewildered
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     The distant sound of sirens was soothing to
Pradip Snodgrass.  With grim determination, he seized
his ten-foot blowgun, a kosher pickle, and a used but
serviceable colonoscope.  It's time, he thought, for
somebody to *do* something.
	He tried to stand up, but failed.  Realizing that
the sirens were for him, he dropped what he had and tried to
open the giant bear trap that trapped his legs.  He
saw it happen once, when the "authorities" caught up 
with his sister, they vapourised her; he thinks that
happened to his whole family.
	Pradip was on the run as the last talking 
marsupial. Talking marsupials, as a class, originated
in the Bikini Atoll tests of the 1950's, with a
stray wombat that happened to be at just the right
distance from the blast.  Since they were living
evidence of the effects of nuclear weaponry, they
were being chased by the CIA, as well as Greenpeace,
who viewed them as a threat, for some reason,
perhaps having to do with the talking marsupial's
taste for blue whale blubber.
	The authorities came around the corner, 
shooting as they ran. The first, stray, shot
hit the trap, and vapourized it, allowing
Pradip the opportunity to jump down the deep
rabbit-hole from which had just emerged a fully
dressed rabbit, muttering "I'm early, what
shall I do?"
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d jj Armstrong c Wheeler b Ash			1 (rats)
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TEDDY BEARS MAY BECOME EXTINCT! HELP AN ENDANGERED SPECIES!
"It was great when it all began, ..."

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