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Toonbots archive: episode published 29 December, 2000

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A poignant view into the soul of ... oh, come off it, this is Mao Tse-Tung, the author of the Cultural Revolution here! You can't possibly expect me to take this seriously! You can't just go about co-opting dead people and then having them say whatever twaddle comes to mind! Yes, I can. No, you can't, and stop writing in my space! No, I won't; it's my space, anyway. But you don't understand, the blurbs are supposed to be serious. Well, today it's not. All right, fine. But you'll be hearing from my agent about this. Go ahead, blurb boy. Make my day. Oh, yeah, step outside and say that, Mr. I-own-the-server! OK, fine, take off those fake glasses, then. Right! Ha! Take that! BIFF! POW! SOCK! BLAP! AAAARRRRRGGGHHH@#($*&(*&(*@&#$(*+++ NO CARRIER

The script used to make this toon:

<cartoon height="600" width="400" rowformat="2">
<panel>
  <character name="mao" rel-h="50"/>
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="red" size="18">"Hey, Fred."</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="red" size="18">Heyyyyy...</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="red" size="26">Fred!</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="red" size="18">Hay, Fred?</caption>
  <character name="mao" action="leaves"/>
</panel>
<panel color="black">
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="red" size="16">*snif*</caption>
</panel>
</cartoon>