Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site tellab1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!tellab1!barth From: barth@tellab1.UUCP (Barth Richards) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: TAKRL Message-ID: <579@tellab1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 17:43:54 EDT Article-I.D.: tellab1.579 Posted: Thu Sep 12 17:43:54 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Sep-85 06:23:11 EDT Reply-To: barth@tellab3.UUCP (Barth Richards) Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, IL Lines: 65 Keywords: Doctor Terrence H. "Telly" Fone, TAKRL I appologize to those of you who have been waiting for all this time for installment number three of THE AMAZING KORNYFONE RECORD LABEL saga. To those of you who think this an utterly annoying waste of net time and space, I say "TOUGH TUMULTUOUS TERRAPINS." (So there!) So now, without further excuse making: Part three of a continuing series of liner notes from bootleg albums produced by The Amazing Kornyfone Record Lable. The Amazing Kornyfone Record Label/The Home Of The Klone Of Dr. Fone I Think It's Your Mind 'AH VEE, YOUR VERY BREATH IS LIKE MATCHING MELONS, AND YOUR EYES LIKE TWIN NILE CROCKODILES," DOCTOR TERRENCE H. "TELLY" FONE WHEEZED AS HE LAZILY FINGERED THE PRIM WHITE LINEN OF HER "UNION MAID" DRAWERS. SHE SNAPPED HIS ELASTIC IN APPRECIATIVE RESPONSE, AND POSITIONED HER TRIPOD AT HIS FAVORITE ANGLE, SLIPPING THE CANVAS WELL AWAY FROM THE CHROME. THE LUMINOUS GLOW OF THE DOCTOR'S EAR-TO-MOUTH TELEPATHOS COMMUNICATOR ILLUMINATED THAT EVER-ELUSIVE ORIFICE AS POLLY "VEE" KHLORYDE SLIPPED SURELY OUT OF HERE REMAINING GARMENT. LOST SOMEWHERE IN THOSE REVOLVING ORBS OF REALITY, TELLY FOUND HIS MIND SLIDING FAR BEYOND THE ACCOUSTIC TILE OF THE DONAYAWANA MOTEL AND SINGLES BAR NESTLED SEDUCTIVELY AGAINST THE OUTSKIRTS OF ANYTOWNE, U.S.A. DISTANTLY, HE RECALLED THE LANGUID AND BITTER SWEET HALFLIGHT OF A YOUTH SPENT HONING POTATOES ON HIS AUNT CORNELIA'S TRUCK FARM. "ALIAS" HE SIGHED, STARING GROON- EYED AT THE LOVELY VEE'S MOIST CREVICE, "I YAM WHAT I YAM." IT HAD BEEN NEARLY THREE YEARS NOW. THREE YEARS SINCE THE UNTIMELY DEMISE OF HIS CHILD BRIDE, THE RESPLENDENT "PRINCESS," IN THE SHINING YAWN OF A DISTRAUGHT MASTER STAMPER AND, THOUGH TERRENCE STILL KEPT HER ABOUT, ON THE SNUG SHELF TWIXT FOGERTY AND FUGS, SHE WAS INCAPABLE OF PROVIDING HIM WITH THE PLEASURES OF OLD. IT WAS THEN HE MET VEE. SHE PIROUETTED ACROSS HIS MULTI-TRACKED LIFE WITH ALL THE GRACE OF AN OIL SLICK. HIS DAYS BECAME SHORTER, HIS NIGHTS LONGER, AS THEIR WORLDS DID COLLIDE. THEN, WITH ALL THE BEASTIALITY OF A DOG LEG, DISASTER STRUCK. TELLY'S ERSTWHILE RELIABLE MEMBER, AN INK CYLINDER NAMED RAPID, CEASED TO FUNCTION. ITS FREE FLOW IMPEDED BY A THICK DARK SUBSTANCE. HIS PANTS WERE, OF A SUDDEN, TOO SHORT. HIS STOOL SQUEAKED AND HIS LONG-LIPPED FRIENDS DIDN'T RECOGNIZE HIM ON THE STREET. ILLUMINATION STRUCK AS A SENTENCE MURMERED WHILE DEEP WITHIN THE TRANCE OF A GYPSY HYPNOTIST. "IT'S THE VINYL," HE HAD SAID, AND INDEED IT PROVED TRUE. UNDER A SELF INFLICTED PHYSICAL, TERRENCE FOUND HE HAD BARELY TWENTY-FOUR MONTHS TO RELIVE. HARDLY TIME TO FEEL SORRY FOR HIMSELF, AND EVEN LESS TO CHASTISE HIS ONCE BELOVED VEE. SOON A FEVERED PLAN BEGAN TO FORM BENEATH HIS FAST FADING FEY FEZ. A PLAN OF CONTINUING THE BREAD AND BUTTER OF HIS EXISTENCE DESPITE HIS TERMINAL ILLNESS. SEARCHING OUT THE INNOVATIVE DOCTOR MYEYES IN THE DEEPENING SHADOWS OF A FARFLUNG GOTHAM, HE PETITIONED HER KNOWLEDGE OF ARTIFICIAL EXTENTION THROUGH THE ALCHEMY OF A NEARBY KLONE BANK. EXPLAINING THE BRIEF BROWN GRAVY OF HIS SITUATION, HIS SPORE WAS IMMEDIATELY ACCEPTED AND HIS LIKENESS SET SAFELY ON A PATH OF TOTAL REALISATION. WITH A MERE THREE MONTHS OF LIFE REMAINING, TELLY ONCE AGAIN LEFT THE CONFINES OF HIS BELOVED ANYTOWNE, AND THE ARMS AND THIGHTS OF HIS BELOVED VEE, FOR FOREIGN CLIMES, LEAVING HIS NOW MATURE KLONE IN CHARGE OF MORE PRESSING MATTERS. EVEN AS WE SPEAK, THE DOCTOR WALKS AMONG YOU. Barth Richards Tellabs, Inc. Lisle, IL "It's the vinyl." Doctor Terrence H. "Telly" Fone