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Toonbots archive: episode published 23 May, 2001

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Today, of course, is the 383rd anniversary of the Defenestration of Prague, and as such it is naturally claimed by the People's Armed Front of Toonbots Worshippers Jihad (PAFTWJ) as the Holiest of Holy Days. The metacartoonist, as always fully cognizant of the significance and symbolism of such events, shows marvellous acuity in dedicating what may turn out to be an actual storyline to the Big Day.

The script used to make this toon:

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<caption location="bottom middle" size="12">*cricket*  *cricket*</caption>
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<caption location="top middle" size="12" fgcolor="blue">ssssst!</caption>
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<caption location="top middle" size="14" fgcolor="blue">SSSST!</caption>
<caption location="bottom middle" size="24" fgcolor="blue">HEY!!  WAKE UP!</caption>
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<caption location="top middle" size="10" fgcolor="green">zzzzzztt*snork*  Green bot...  asymmetry of coupling terms in wolverines ... Mao Tse-Tung observed in kaon system...</caption>
<caption location="bottom middle" size="14" fgcolor="blue">Wake up, man -- have you looked at a calendar?</caption>
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<caption location="top middle" size="14" fgcolor="green">Not -- um -- not this week.  ...  Holy --!  It's the 23rd, isn't it?</caption>
<caption location="bottom middle" size="14" fgcolor="blue">You're durned tootin' bub.  The Jihad is not happy.</caption>
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<caption location="top middle" size="14" fgcolor="green">Pfft.  They're a surly lot to start with.</caption>
<caption location="bottom middle" size="14" fgcolor="blue">Yes, but this is the Big Day.  They've made, you know, ARRANGEMENTS.</caption>
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<caption location="top middle" size="14" fgcolor="green">Oh, God.  Not like that last time?  "How were we supposed to know that the wolverines would level that shopping mall?"</caption>
<caption location="bottom middle" size="14" fgcolor="blue">Well, um, no, not quite like that.</caption>
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<character name="mao"/>
<caption location="top left" size="14" fgcolor="green">Then what --</caption>
<caption location="top right" size="12" fgcolor="red">Hey, Fred.</caption>
<caption location="bottom middle" size="10" fgcolor="blue">I really hate it when you call me that.</caption>
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<caption location="top middle" size="14" fgcolor="red">There's some kind of weird people loose back here.  And some ... animals.</caption>
<caption location="bottom middle" size="14" fgcolor="green">But I -- you -- they wouldn't!  They can't!  Dot, why didn't you wake me?!?</caption>
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<caption location="top left" size="12" fgcolor="blue">Eh, heh, heh...  Um, I have to check my pie in the oven--</caption>
<caption location="bottom right" size="14" fgcolor="red">Is that the Toon-o-Matic room they're going into?</caption>
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<character name="hick"/><character name="will"/><character name="bot"/>
<caption location="top left" size="48" fgcolor="purple" font="_nahkt">(QERUOs/,2#$lkdfoiu34!</caption>
<caption location="bottom middle" size="14" fgcolor="grey" font="deutsch">Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation.</caption>
<caption location="top left" size="24" fgcolor="green" font="ocraext">Oh please let this all be a dream sequence.</caption>
<caption location="bottom right" size="22" fgcolor="blue">TO BE CONTINUED...</caption>
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