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Alternate History Fridays: Dr. Tundra In the Dock

Urizen creates the Holy WritThe Bailiff announced: “all rise for the Reverend Judge Solomon Dungry.”

Dr. Tundra watched as the Reverend Judge entered the Court. The inquisitor was a tall, cadaverous man, with piercing blue eyes and lips that were so thin, you could only see them when he scowled, which he did most of the time. He took his seat, a low bench next to a tall cross on his dais, and said: “everyone but the accused may sit.”

“That’s you,” Dr. Tundra’s Writ-appointed lawyer told him — a well-meaning man, but weak, and clearly a cog in this fundamentalist system.

“You are accused of three counts of heresy, Dr. Tundra,” the Bailiff read from a clipboard. “One — you have purposefully taught the heretical notion of evolution. Two — you have posited another Supreme Being than Our Christian Lord, God. Three, you have called this False God the Flying Spaghetti Monster.”

“How do you plead?”

“Not guilty of course,” Dr. Tundra said. “But may I ask, am I not entitled to a trial by jury?”

The judge stood up, as did the rest of the Court. “No, heretic, you are not.”

“But doesn’t the Constitution grant me –”

“No, it does not. Before I pass sentence,” the Reverend Judge said, “may I ask what possessed you to do these things? Surely you knew of our Holy Writ before you came to America to teach?” Continue Reading →

China opens new smoking cessation clinic for humans

image of mugshot caption: prisoner patientXI’AN (The Skwib) — Party officials in China have opened a new anti-smoking clinic in northwest China.

Earlier this week, officials at the Qinling Safari Park in Shaanxi Province announced that after 16 years of chain smoking, the chimp Ai Ai has successfully quit the health-threatening habit.

The 27-year-old chimp was given special foods, and she was distracted from her cravings for cigarettes with walks, gymnastics and stirring readings from the Little Red Book.

But party officials quickly realized the core of Ai Ai’s success — she was in a cage, and the zoo keepers stopped giving her cigarettes.

“When put this together, knew we on something” said Wen Jingtao, the Director of the Running Dog Smoking Cessation Clinic.

“We have lots empty cages here, so why not put to use?”

The Running Dog Smoking Cessation Clinic was born, and the first “clients” are due to arrive for their intensive 16-week course next Tuesday.

“We excited to see Western customers coming for stop smoking,” Jingtao told The Skwib as he puffed on his feculent unfiltered cigarette. “All guards . . . uh . . . not guards, uh . . . caregivers, are smokers, so the prison– I mean, the patients will be no longer tempted after they leave.”

The clinic is charging $2,500 US per stay. $500 extra for the non-torture package.

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Chimp gets monkey off its back | China | original photo by daniel duende

Darth Jeremy, Dark Lord of Insurance Agents

Image of Darth Jeremy, Dark Lord of Insurance AgentsPsychlotron XII was well-known as the premier negolath-mining planet in the entire galaxy. (Negolath, as you know, is a vital element in the powdered wig industry, which has gripped galactic fashion since the disembodied head of Joan Rivers wore one to the 1206th Oscars.)

The problem with negolath is that it is easily transmuted into an aerosol, is highly reactive and can cause a range of maladies such as having your face to slough off. In short, if not properly handled, negolath killed people, turned them into hideous skin-deprived ghouls, or even worse.

The Massively Helpful Insurance Company provided the health coverage for the miners who quarried the all-important negolath.

And there had been a massive aerosol event; thousands of miners and their families were dead, losing their facial features, or getting sick. The Massively Helpful Insurance Company was on the hook for billions of credits in health care, that is, until they called in Darth Jeremy, Dark Lord of Insurance Agents. It would take him weeks, but the powerful villain visited each policy holder in turn. Continue Reading →

Special Agent Mulva

image of lips, partedThe Truth was out there, and it was Special Agent Frank Mulva’s job to prevent people from finding it.

If they discovered it … well … he just didn’t want to think about the ramifications. If people understood that sex was fun? There was no greater danger.

He had personal experience with it — the danger of the knowledge, not the actual sex.

His younger sister, Fanny, had been seduced by carnality. And then combined it with commerce; it was as though she had been abducted by aliens. Of course, unlike an alien abduction, he could always see his sister if he went to his nearest web browser and typed in lustylasses.com.

It tore his heart out.

For Fanny, the journey had started out so innocently. She and some other college friends got together one night to have a Passion Party — like a Tupperware party, but with sex toys and lessons from evil sexucators on how to give a better … Mulva couldn’t even think of it.

Yep, the Passion Party was the gateway to the evils of the hardcore porn industry, and it was Mulva’s key focus. He would shut them down. He didn’t care if they were legal.

He had a calling. Greatness was thrust upon him.

Yep, Mulva thought, thrust. Thrust, thrust, thrust. Hmm, odd. Why would that word keep running through his head?

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Swelling demand for sex ed | Recruits sought for pr0n squad | lips by robyn’s nest

Bill Turns Off the Radio

cbc logo bleedingBill Freedman awoke in Bucolic City to the sounds of AM Talk Now — what passed for talk radio in his hometown.

It wasn’t the CBC, that was for sure, but then again the CBC wasn’t the CBC any more either. Even zombie Peter Gzowski was done. The avuncular and undead radio host had invited Quentin Tarantino on as a guest, probably hoping that he’d get to eat the auteur’s brains, when in fact, Tarantino had agreed to the interview, knowing that he’d get a chance to shoot a zombie in the head.

That had been the last morning when the CBC had been worth listening to.

Since then, Bill had been subjected to AM talk radio each morning, at least ten minutes of inane chatter and crap ripped off weblogs and wire services, before he left for work.

“Hey hey, Bob-Slob, let’s do the Top Five Reasons Monday Sucks!!!” the Main Host said.

“Yeah, this is a great one!” Bob-Slop agreed, obsequiously.

“No!” Bill shouted at the radio. “It’s not a great one. It’s hackneyed crap. Even the Voice was funnier than you, and the Voice sucked!”

He could take it no longer. Bill Freedman, long-time CBC fan, who’d had a lifelong love affair with radio, was disgusted with the medium. It had let him down. If he was honest with himself, it had been a disappointment for years, even before the lockout.

He turned the radio off, and went to the bathroom to brush his teeth. When he returned to his bedroom, where the window was open, he caught a whiff of fresh autumnal air. It was peaceful, having no radio on. The absence of sound. And then it hit him . . .

For the first time in years, he heard the sound of birdcall.

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CBC must explain reason for lockout