"Good morning Ladies, Gentlemen...and Ray. It seems that my gentle cajoling last week might have had some effect as we have ascended by nearly 7,000 points since then. Snowlord Airways flight AHPC-XI out of challenge, Blogland is now cruising at 60,074 points and should at this rate reach our target altitude on 67,900 points before my next shift."
"The fact that we are so close to reaching our target altitude with more than two weeks left to the end of the flight is emphatically not an excuse for slacking off. Keep going you brush slaves!"
"For those confused by the title of this announcement, it is a Judge Dredd reference. Quite early in the strip's history, there was the Cursed Earth saga in which "Old Stony Face", accompanied by an outlaw biker and a few Judges had to cross the Cursed Earth (the irradiated, mutant and outlaw-filled wasteland of America) to take a shipment of vaccines to Mega City 2 (the West coast equivalent of Mega City 1) as they were suffering an outbreak of the alien virus named 2T-FruT which turned victims into flesh-eating living zombies; one of the first signs of infection was the victim declaiming "Tutti Frutti". Along the way they encounter various criminals, get mixed up in the war between the Burger King and the MacDonalds, meet a Green Giant (several actually), escape the attentions of a genetically engineered T-Rex (years before Jurassic Park was a twinkle in Michael Crichton's eyes) and eventually stagger into MC2 just in time to save at least some of the population."
"You might be wondering how BK, Maccy D and the owners of the Green Giant brand reacted. Well, they sued for trademark and copyright infringements which resulted in those episodes of the saga being omitted from reprints for many years until "fair use" laws came in."
Tutti-Fr...Toodle-Pip!
Tamsin
A-wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a-lop-bam-boom! back at you Ms P.
ReplyDeleteI'll have three posts by the looks of things today.
It looks as though the third will carry forward to Wednesday :)
DeleteA very cool slice of comic book history there. Have a great day with the inmates Tamsin!
ReplyDeleteIt's a cool story and even featured a tie-in with the Space Command(?) line of vehicles from Matchbox. It's well worth a read, even if you don't normally read Judge Dredd.
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