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From: lightnin@hotblack.gweep.net (TOOZDAY)
Subject: Re: Okay, who put him up to this?
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Organization: More than you Bargained For, Inc.
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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1994 17:55:51 GMT

In article ,
Uncle Don  wrote:
>protect twelve of the fifty species within the U.S.A., including the Wild
>Boar, the Polar Bear, the Penguin, and the Bull Moose.  Ever since..."
>
>THUMP.
>
>Slowly, majestically, the nearly-crippled Zepplin rose out of sight.

James Burke lay, crushed, beneath the broken corpse of a Bull Moose.  The
bushes behind this grisly scene rustled, and out stepped, James Burke.  He
paused, looking at the mess, then turned to face the camera.

"Well, you might think that being crushed underneath the weight of a Bull
Moose dropped from several hundred feet in the air would be the end of me,
right?  Wrong.  Thanks to James Watt and the miracle of his invention
Genetic Engineering, there are several million clones of me all over the
world, each waiting to step in where the last one left off..."

James turned to face a different camera.  As he turned, the scene around him
shifted subtly.  The most notable difference was that instead of the sight
of a grisly murder behind him, there appeared a family enjoying a picnic in
their own backyard.  James continued.

"Which, brings us back to this jar of marmalade.  Because without the
special cloning techniques that allow me to continue to make these
documentaries, Aunt Edna wouldn't have been able to clone that perfect
heifer she found all those years ago, and continue to make her award winning
steak marmalade."

James put the jar of marmalade back on the picnic table and began to walk
away.

"So, we've come full circle.  On the way, we've seen how cosmic rays are
connected to Communism, and how genetic engineering affects life even out
here in the back woods.  We've cleared up all the loose ends... except for
one."

James Burke glanced up, where he saw a young man, with a kitten in each
hand, his shoe untied, and hanging upside down from a Zeppelin...

-two
(Shall we get back to Gramps?)


-- 
ONCE: (adv.) Enough.    
				- Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_


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