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Dr. Maximilian Tundra The Wit and Wisdom of Dr. Tundra Memorial Ode:
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The Tragic End Members of the Emily Chesley Reading Circle were shocked to receive the following email from Chauncey Migswith-Piggerton, a member of the London (UK) Circle:
Subject: Terrible news My colonial friends, After some shock, a few of the other founding members had the following to say when they learned of the untimely demise of their peer, Dr. Maximilian Tundra:
The story of his terminal plummet from the Severn Road Bridge, in Bristol, UK follows: From the Western Daily Press Mad chase ends in maritime tragedy By Bartleby Beast (Bristol) A patient at the Sherksbury-on-Whimple Spa met an untimely demise yesterday after leading the local authorities on a lengthy chase from Bath to Bristol. The local constabulary was called when the patient, a Dr. Maximilian Tundra, broke into the manor of Lord Edgar Whipsnake, on the Royal Crescent, in Bath. They arrived shortly after Dr. Tundra had left the manor, taking with him an antique soup tureen, a Lava Lamp and a BMW model Z8, belonging to Leslie Buns, QC, a guest of Lord Whipsnake who was in town for the Bath Literature Festival . "Well naturally, I was shocked," said Buns, "I had no idea that Edgar would own such a gauche item as a Lava Lamp." The police pursued Dr. Tundra from the Royal Crescent, up Marlborough Boulevard and onto Upper Bristol Road (the A4). Once on the A4, the escaped patient easily outdistanced the police in their Ford Fiestas, and soon was tearing through Bristol at high speeds. The chase ended at the Severn Road Bridge, after Dr. Tundra smashed through the tollbooth, and crashed into the wall of the bridge. The police arrived moments later to discover Dr. Tundra balanced precariously on the railing, high above Great Ulverstone and the Severn River. "I've been in the service, and I've served 15 years on the force, and I've never seen anything like it," said a badly shaken Constable Peever Chunk. "The man was a raving loony." While Chunk and his partner waited for the Bristol police negotiator to arrive, Dr. Tundra told them that he had stopped the ultimate evil from "manifesting." "He was shaking that Lava Lamp at us like a south sea totem," said Constable Cydric Eloquent. "He was convinced that it was the ultimate evil, and that the tureen was the Holy Grail, which had given him the power to stop the ultimate evil." As he brandished the two items at the constables, they tried to inch closer to him. The unbalanced Dr. Tundra tottered on the edge of disaster. Dr. Tundra had gone missing from the spa at some point in the early hours of Monday morning, after breaking into the institution's pharmacy. Apparently Dr. Tundra consumed a prodigious amount of an experimental non-addictive peyote substitute, which has impressive psychotropic effects. Spa officials refused to comment on their security procedures or why they would have such a large quantity of experimental drug on their premises. No doubt the intoxicating effects of the faux-peyote contributed to the instability of Dr. Tundra. Before the police negotiator arrived, the man tipped over the edge of the bridge, screaming "Sieve? Sieve? Bwa-ha--" The police were unable to recover his body, which disappeared after he hit the water. (story courtesy of the Western Daily Press, Bristol UK) . |
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