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WIN A MECHANICAL DINOSAUR CONTEST!
It’s time again for the Pondicherry Association News’ semi-annual “Win a Mechanical Dinosaur Contest”. All you have to do is write your name, address, daytime phone number and include 10 sticker packets to: MECHANICAL DINOSAUR CONTEST (caps only), 537 Little Borough Parkway, Western Lankville, 2871. Sticker packets must be peeled. This fabulous mechanical dinosaur is sure to make you the envy of everyone on your block and could lead to new friends and possibly even some intercourse (heterosexual only). Think of it! You can have intercourse while watching the dinosaur move his head up and down. It’s been done before. Go for it!
Last year’s winner Dan Beery has this to say about his mechanical dinosaur:
“It gave me a new perspective on the outdoors.”
Deadline April 30. No hand-deliveries. Mechanical dinosaur partially soaked in flame retardant materials.
Royer’s Madcap Experiences: The Mysterious Visitor
By Ric Royer

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The vast auditorium was gloomy and tenebrous with the exception of a faint bluish light aimed at the stage. The mysterious visitor walked into it.
I was the only one in the audience. He looked right at me.
“Do you like puppets?” he asked.
“Yes,” I responded, quietly.
“Do you like magic?” he followed up quickly.
“Yes,” I said, even fainter this time.
There was a pause. Then:
“Do you like balloons?”
“Yes.” I knew he could hear my response but it was practically soundless. He walked offstage. The lights went up slightly. The pageant was clearly over.
Small Pizzas Yearbook Just Pictures of Tits
By Brock Belvedere, Jr.
Senior Staff Writer

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The new Small Pizzas yearbook, released today, is just pictures of tits according to buyers.
“We expected tidbits on our favorite players, biographies, at most maybe a word jumble but not this,” said fan and yearbook purchaser Randy Partners. “It’s 132 pages of close-up tits. It has nothing at all to do with hockey.”
Partners was later lured into a room by the promise of a real yearbook and slaughtered.
“Not sure what the problem is, boys,” said owner and GM “Inner Hammer”, who was reached by phone in the Teets Island Chain. “Just giving the people what they want. Nobody can tell me they’d rather see pics of Marian Hossa or Claude Giroux over close-up tits.”
“Inner Hammer” suddenly slammed the phone down and the interview was ended prematurely.
The Small Pizzas are expected to release a statement later today.
Musings of a Decorative Ham Man
By Chris Vitiello

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A group of men in yellow jumpsuits came to install the pneumatic ham tubes.
“We require an efficient way to be able to transport hams to the basement quickly,” I had said. The salesman eyed me suspiciously. “I don’t think the air current could be generated…for something of that weight…the engineering is not available…” He paused when I produced the whip. “Make it happen, Mr. Woppy (for that was the man’s idiotic name). Make it happen.”
He left the room quickly with his sad little tweed case.
They found a manufacturer in the islands; someone unfettered by the taint of regulation. The tubes were delivered via a fleet of tractor trailers. I got Woppy out of bed at 3 A.M.
“The tubes have arrived,” I commented sternly. “When will you?”
“Jesus Christ. In the morning. We’ll be there in the morning.”
“I’ll be closely monitoring your arrival.” I hung up and returned to a long film that featured some spacemen firing lasers at dinosaurs. It was mere background.
I stayed close by during the installation. Woppy was clearly hungover; for that, he deserved a whipping but I abstained throughout the morning. Around noon, he made an inappropriate comment as a female secretary passed by.
“Jeezus, wouldn’t mind gettin’ my noodle wet in that sauce.”
I asked him to come outside. He followed me to a small yard with a high fence and it was here that I whipped him mercilessly. I sent him home in a cab.
Near dusk, I dropped the first ham into the tube. I could feel the air suck it briskly downwards through the floor. Then, I called downstairs.
“Never arrived boss,” they said.
“Are you lying?” Are you a liar? Are you creating illusions?” I asked.
“No sir,” they said, seemingly perplexed. “We heard a loud bumping noise and then nothing arrived.”
I quietly hung up. It had not worked. It was inefficient. I tore the tube out myself. It took all night.
It is 3 A.M. I am staring up at the darkened second-floor windows of Woppy’s house. Light tuba music is playing on the radio.
I know not yet what I will do.
Royer’s Madcap Experiences: Beyond Human Ken
By Ric Royer

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“I’m contemplating an expedition to the South Lankville Pole,” I said. “I need a man like you along.”
I stared across the desk at Turps. He blew a gigantic cloud of cigarette smoke at me. The late afternoon sun made its way in thin shafts through the blinds. I could hear the sounds of a beheading faintly in the distance and the murmur of automobile traffic. There was a quality of lethargy in the air.
“You may have the Pole in your loins,” Turps finally commented, “but your loins are not in the Pole.” He blew another gigantic smoke cloud my way.
“I aim to undertake this, with or without you. You are well aware that I have mastered technique forty-four just as the Handbook says.” I slammed a piece of paper down on the desk and turned away. He stood up.
“Let’s go get the physicals.” I knew I had him then.
Two hours later, a small man in a white lab coat was delicately fingering my testicles. “Your gonads will need to be taped,” he kept saying. I had no idea what he meant. He stood up and began making notes on a clipboard as I hoisted my trousers. “No, no,” he admonished. “I need to paw at your testicles a little more.” The process lasted hours. When I emerged from the examining room, Turps was waiting for me. He looked annoyed.
“What the hell took so long? My physical lasted fifteen minutes”.
We walked outside. A gray jeep whipped around a corner, slammed on its brakes and skidded to a stop before us. “This is Carthill,” noted Turps. “He’ll drive us to get hot dogs and then to the boats.”
We stopped at a nearby stand.
“Going to the Pole, huh?” said Carthill. He was a good-looking blonde kid with a square jaw.
“What do you know about it?” I threatened.
“I know that there have only been two tries at it,” he responded, his mouth full of half-masticated hog. “The first was in eighteen forty-something. An utter failure.”
“That was the Little Anton Expedition,” Turps noted.
“Right, Little Anton. What, nine-thousand dead, something like that?”
“I believe the count was 39,” Turps corrected.
“Yeah, right. They never did find the ship. Then they tried it again in the twenties with that islander explorer, what was it, Batts?”
“No, his name was Himmelthorn,” said Turps.
“Right,” said the kid. He paused to throw up crisply into a box of little lamps. “Himmelthorn got stuck in the ice about twenty miles offshore. Never did even see land. Not that there’s much land to see. Nothing but fucking ice. Himmelthorn, a-number one fuckhead if you ask me.”
“Yeah, well, no one’s asking you”. Turps had to hold me back. The kid had a smirk that I wanted to smack off his face or perhaps crease with an ax. “Easy boy,” Turps added.
An hour later we were on our way to what I thought would be the South Pole. But really, it was a long, long journey to a place beyond human ken.
To be continued.
Woman in a Man’s Game
By Robin Brox
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He was a little man with round glasses and a piebald head and he emerged awkwardly from beneath the surf, his skin a delicious malachite hue that belied his otherwise grotesque appearance. I watched him towel off and stared hard at the center of his taut short pants where I could sense an ethereal bulge that I knew would whisk any woman away to a place where no eternity existed and where there would be only an endless corkscrew pounding like some ancient, mythical rotary tool lost to mankind.
I followed him up to the hotels. He ducked along a fading side street and the air suddenly became rarefied and then stale with a deep and resolute masculine musk. I collapsed briefly against a pushcart popcorn vendor and then into some small garden fencing that surrounded a weedy, unkempt little lawn. I remained there, up on one hip, staring across at the piebald man as he entered a dilapidated flophouse known as “The Emerald Inn”.
Minutes later, I entered the lobby. It was adorned in unfashionable browns and purples and manned by a frowzy, corpulent islander. I walked up to his little counter kingdom and, by means of cutting off the light with my quaking body, isolated him from all warmth and love.
“Tell me where the piebald man is staying. The room number.” He produced his sad little sign-in tablet from beneath an accumulation of phone books. Freezing now, he pointed to a name. I allowed light, then.
I climbed the carpeted staircase to the second floor. Someone was grunting loudly in short, agonizing rhythmic spurts. I kicked open the offender’s door. He was a bulging, overly-muscled man doing squat thrusts. He failed to notice me. I continued down the hall.
I tapped on 121. Where there had been the light sound of movement within, I now heard nothing but a ghostly sibilance. Then, the sound of a supernal wind. He was gone.
He had left the taut short swim trunks, wet and sandy, on the unmade bed and a greeting card depicting a cartoon turkey. “HAPPY THANKSGIVING” it said inside, though it was July. He had left it unsigned.
I have not been back to the beach since.
Inner Hammer Kills Two in Sword Battle
By Bernie Keebler
Senior Staff Writer

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Small Pizzas GM “Inner Hammer” killed two vendors yesterday at the 63rd Annual Teets Island Gun, Swords and Hard Spheres Show held on the island.
“I asked the fat as shit guys if I could see the old pirate-looking cutlass they had behind glass. They took it out for me, handed it to me carefully and I immediately felt empowered. So I just cut both their heads off.”
Police are trying to determine if the actions of the executive were in self-defense.
“The act of proffering a pirate cutlass could be viewed as an offensive action,” noted Detective Gee-Temple, who was flown into the Teets Island Chain to investigate. “Inner Hammer may have been in the right. We’re still looking into it.”
“Yeah, it was kind of awesome, guys,” noted Inner Hammer. “If they hadn’t canceled the event and cleared the auditorium, I would have definitely bought that pirate cutlass even though it was all gnarly and all.”
Inner Hammer has murdered four people over the past two years, all food delivery persons. Detective Gee-Temple says that the murder yesterday does not fit into the GM’s profile.
“We have to look at all the details. This is by no means over. It will probably be OK.”
Catching Up with Inner Hammer
BY IDA RUMPUS The Lankville Society Scoop

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Ida Rumpus recently had the chance to sit down with Small Pizzas GM Inner Hammer outside of his hotel in the Teets Island Chain.
IH: Hiya, angel tits. Good to see you again? What you got for “The Hammer”?
IR: Just a few questions…
IH: Aw, let’s skip the chatter, baby. How ’bout we make a two-backed beast?
IR: I…I wanted to ask about…
IH: You and me, sweet humps. Let’s ratchet us up a little white baby.
IR: I…
IH: I’ll give you a minute to think about it, lover. I gotta’ dump a load.
The interview was ended prematurely.
REPORT: Royer Acting “All Grabby” with Easter Basket
By Grady Kitchens
Senior Staff Writer

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It is reported this morning that Terrifying Bat GM Ric Royer has been acting “all grabby” with a large Easter basket display at the Foontz-Flonnaise Home of Abundant Senselessness.
“It’s been difficult to keep him away from the Easter basket,” stated Warden Jenness, who was interviewed in the front lobby of the Home. “It’s a particularly large basket that was donated by an anonymous patron and it features a great number of decorative felt flowers with smiley faces, Easter bunny bunting, large chocolate eggs, marshmallow decorative hams, all kinds of stuff. At first, he was really pawing at it– ripping the grass out, burying his whole head in the basket, taking things out and putting things back in. It’s starting to get a little out of hand at this point, though.” Jenness suddenly became quiet and he was observed to look far down the hallway. “I just saw him,” he said quietly. “He’s planning something.”
Royer appeared from around a corner and began running directly towards Jenness with a shovel. He was tackled by guards.
“That’s like the fifth time this morning,” Jenness noted, after Royer was subdued.
The eccentric GM was removed to his cell and was resting comfortably at last report.
Doctor Pennies on Travel, Special Tactics
By Doctor Pennies
Special Correspondent

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I always pack lightly and utilize a suitcase that no one will remember. I change suitcases often. I have driven out to the desert and burned many a suitcase.
Upon occasion, special tactics are required. I have traversed many a rooftop in pitch black darkness.
Thanks.
Woman in a Man’s Game
By Robin Brox
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Ivan was my first love. He had strange, tremendous tufts of blonde hair and a glove compartment filled with napkins. You would have never thought it possible to shove so many napkins into a glove compartment.
We drove down to the paper factory. “It’s burned to the ground,” he said. “There’s nothing to see, really.” He opened the glove compartment, removed a single napkin and tossed it out the window. “Hand me those tapes,” he said. They were neatly arranged in a brown leather case. We listened to some bullshit– he had terrible taste in music, one of his few faults.
We walked among the charred remains. A train went by and disappeared into a tunnel. “You know what that means?” he asked. At the time, I didn’t. He let it go and walked over to the car and took out another napkin before I could respond. He folded it carefully and threw it up in the air. It landed at his feet. “Gravity, that shit!” he exclaimed.
He rented a hotel that night under the name “Mr. and Mrs. Karl Koupons”. Paid cash. It was a double bed with a yellow comforter and a large painting of a dog above an old television set. “Why don’t you see what’s on?” he said. “I’m going back to the car”. I knew it was to get another damn napkin. It never ended.
The set sputtered and then flashed on. A series of spaceship rockets were being launched into a bay. You could hear a voice over a radio– “The spaceship rockets just fell into the bay. Mission aborted.” Then, the show ended. There was a long pause and then a commercial came on for soap flakes.
I put on some pink shorts. Ivan came back in with his head down. He looked terribly guilty of something.
“What? What is it?”
“Nothing,” he said. “Nothing. Just, those napkins make me so nervous”.
I kissed him. He ran his tongue along my front teeth. The sensation was odd.
“I…I’m sorry, I’ll be…just a minute.” He left. Those fucking napkins again.
I slept alone.
Lankville Theme Camp Opens to Massive Disapproval
By Dick Oakes, Jr.
Senior Staff Writer

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“The Camp of the Mordant and Unexpected”, which opened yesterday in the Eastern Lankville Wooded Area Region, has been met with wide disapproval, according to sources.
“It’s hell,” said a camper who refused to be identified. “There are woods killers everywhere. They just come out of the woods and kill people. They need to figure out how to address that issue, otherwise, I think they’ll have trouble attracting more campers.”
Camp officials dismissed the complaints as growing pains.
“It’ll be alright,” said instructor Glennx Roberts. “We learned some things yesterday and we will apply our knowledge to the future and go into the next round with a better idea of beginnings and endings. We have some very nice facilities here. It’ll be alright.”
Roberts was suddenly revealed to be one of the killers. He was taken away.
“Definitely a mess here,” noted Detective Gee-Temple who responded to the scene. “Looks like they came out of the woods and into the camp. Then, they killed people. Then, they went back into the woods. That’s what I’ve got in my notes.” Gee-Temple held up his notes to verify his statement.
“We’ll be taking some grass samples, some mud and maybe some of the giant assegai’s that were left lying around,” added the intrepid detective. “We need to make the camp safe for camping. That’s our main goal.”
The camp will be closed for at least a week. Commissioner Pondicherry has yet to issue a statement.
Chimney: 1955-2013
By Hugh G. Pickens
Crime Beat Reporter

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Pondicherry Association News reporter “The Chimney” was killed last night. The journalist was 57.
“The Chimney” was reportedly involved in a series of incidents outside an East Lankville nightclub. Police were involved.
“Witnesses reported that he was in a progressively agitated state throughout the evening,” noted Detective Gee-Temple, who responded to the scene. “His condition was worsened by an enormous intake of alcohol and we found quite a hefty amount of island narcotics in his system. He refused to leave the nightclub despite numerous requests from ownership.”
“He started smashing glasses and taking the shards of glass and slicing people,” stated Reg Sunnies, who has owned and operated Boffo Periods Nightclub since 2008. “Then, he started slicing himself. Then, he got inappropriate with some of the ladies. That’s when we bounced him.”
“The Chimney” was involved in a standoff with police around 2:15 A.M., after refusing to move from the front sidewalk of Boffo Periods.
“We asked him to leave and he said no,” stated Gee-Temple. “So, we shot him 17 times.”
“The Chimney” was hired this week after reporting on events in Lankville for 23 years. He was recently divorced from his wife and is survived by a cot, a wicker hamper and some tools.
Pondicherry Readers Speak Out
By Bill Hogg
Grocery Store Clerk

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There’s nothing I like better than to climb in that big ol’ piece of Lankville iron I got parked out front and drive through the streets without stopping. Once, I was able to make it all the way downtown, blowing every red light, without getting caught. People look at that old car and they say, “Why, Bill, that’s a piece of shit.” And I pull my cap down and say, “Nope. There’s power to spare under that big baby’s hood.” And they walk away then.
The Pondicherry book is the sort of thing you can read while driving. It’s also good for that time before twilight when you’re having six or seven beers in the weedy area behind the convenience store. I even gave a copy to the little pervert who comes into the store and kneels behind the watermelons. “Hey man, your nuts are as big as these watermelons,” he would say, senselessly. But after I gave him the Pondicherry book, he quieted down and I found him a little stool and it calmed him for a good hour or two.
Then, there’s that fat lady who fashioned a hook under her skirt and we caught her taking out a couple of hams. The manager wanted to arrest her but I talked him out of it. “Go set her down in the corner and give her this book,” I said, pressing Pondicherry into his hand. I believe it did teach her something.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a thing about smoking cigarettes on a toothpick.
Royer’s Madcap Experiences: The Ardth Hordes and the Tongueless Horror
By Ric Royer

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Time was passing quickly when I selected my donkey. The sky, where it had been crimson only moments ago, had turned a dull slate grey and was moving quickly. Momentarily, I stared at the perplexing mountains beyond. There was something derelict about them.
It became suddenly yellow. “What’s that donkey? Why?” I asked, pointing into the hay-strewn mud shed. The native, an ancient figure, began to count out currency.
“Are you going to sell me that donkey? And what about the swords?” But it was useless. The figure continued his deliberate counting. I ambled over to a machine that dispensed hats.
I came back.
“What about the donkey and the swords?” He pointed to a barrel, covered in muslin. It became slate grey again. I selected two swords. One had a delicately-engraved scabbard.
“Give me a little booklet on the Ardth Hordes. Throw that in there. Put it on the counter, old man.” I was becoming pushy– it was impossible to tell whether night was coming. I eyed again the monstrous, grotesque mountains.
He had interest only in the coins. He took two sacks and immediately drained them.
The donkey was led out by a small boy.
That’s when I lit out for the Ardth Hordes and came upon the tongueless horror.










































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