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The metacartoonist isn't feeling very funny in light of the invasion of Iraq (yeah, the actual date of posting isn't Februember 30, but that date was too good to waste) but here's an episode anyway.

The script used to make this toon:
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  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">Now that I have the Despammed.com mail queue working,
  <br/>maybe I can look at this Toon-o-Matic cartoon queue.</caption>
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">There has to be a lot of material backed up.  Hmm.  What's this setting here?</caption>
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  <character name="mao"/>
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  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">Or</caption>
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  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">Or you</caption>
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<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">you</caption>
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<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">Or you can</caption>
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  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">can</caption>
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<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">c c c c c c</caption>
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<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">Oops, no.</caption>
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<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">y y y you ccccc</caption>
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<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">caaaaaaaaalllllllllll</caption>
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<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">Or you can call me...</caption>
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<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">... what the heck was THAT?!?</caption>
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">Me working on the queue, sort of.</caption>
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</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">Jeez, it was a flashback to the Max Headroom 80's there.</caption>
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">Hold that thought.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">I can't work under these conditions.</caption>
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">That's just cut and pasted from the last episode.</caption>
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<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">There was some truth in it, though</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">There was some truth in it, though</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">There was some truth in it, though</caption>
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<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">You want to stop the war and stuff, don't you?</caption>
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="red">What?  We haven't done the antiwar thread yet.</caption>
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<panel>
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">That was definitely queued up during the Lenin's Cereal Massacree.  We're getting close.</caption>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="green" size="9">WE CONTROL THE VERTICAL.  WE CONTROL THE HORIZONTAL.  DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SET.
THERE IS NO PENGUIN<br/>FRONT WHETHER ARMED OR UNARMED.
BE READY AT YOUR DESIGNATED SEAFOOD<br/>DEPOT SITE
UPON RECEIPT OF THE PREARRANGED SIGNAL.</caption>
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<panel>
  <character name="fidel"/>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="blue">Sacre bleu!  Where is ze East German booth?  Where is the CommieCon?</caption>
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="red">It's the end of the world as we know it, Fidel.  How are you feeling?</caption>
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<panel>
  <character name="hick"/>
  <caption location="top right" fgcolor="grey" font="_nahkt">Hey, y'all -- I feel fine!</caption>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="blue" font="_nahkt">I am feeling, 'ow you say?  Fine?</caption>
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">Darn font controls, sorry about that, and I feel fine.</caption>
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<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">Oh</caption>
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<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">man</caption>
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<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">that's</caption>
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  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">an</caption>
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  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">awfully</caption>
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<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">full....</caption>
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<panel>
  <caption location="top right" fgcolor="blue">It's full of stars....</caption>
  <caption location="top left" fgcolor="red">That's no moon, it's a toon queue!</caption>
  <character name="osama"/>
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<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="blue">(IMAGINE AT THIS POINT THE CREAKING SOUND OF THE SINKING TITANIC)</caption>
  <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue" size="12">My lovely beard! It has grown back!  Praise Allah!</caption>
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<panel>
  <character name="dubya"/>
  <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue">Hey!  Who's this guy next to me?!?</caption>
  <character name="spider"/>
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oiu oiu 0982 74u sdofiu oiu 9082734 who's reading this I wonder?  Hi!  Welcome back! s9d8f7 987234
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<panel>
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="blue">Ah'm serious!  We Presidents are always serious!  Who is this guy?  He looks familiar somehow!</caption>
  <character name="toonistmob"/>
  <character name="blorgle"/>
  <character name="yoda"/>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange" size="12">
&lt;cartoon height=&quot;1200&quot; width=&quot;700&quot; rowformat=&quot;1&quot;&gt;
&lt;panel&gt;
  &lt;caption location=&quot;top middle&quot; fgcolor=&quot;orange&quot;&gt;Now that I have the Despammed.com mail queue working,
  &lt;br/&gt;maybe I can look at this Toon-o-Matic cartoon queue.&lt;/caption&gt;
  </caption>
</panel>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="will"/>
  <character name="al"/>
  <character name="tirdun"/>
  <caption location="top left" fgcolor="red">What's the difference between an American and an American bomb?</caption>
  <caption location="top right" fgcolor="red">Dunno, Mao.  What IS the difference?</caption>
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="red">The bomb is smart enough to find Iraq.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="lenin"/>
  <character name="mouse"/>
  <character name="ilya" aspect="hatted"/>
  <caption location="top left" fgcolor="green" size="60">Where is being start of CommieCon thread again?<br/>
Is mic being on yet?</caption>
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<panel>
  <character name="portal"/>
  <character name="dick"/>
  <character name="me"/>
  <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="orange">Darn it, I'm not supposed to be in the toon again.</caption>
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<panel>
  <character name="chick"/>
  <character name="emsworth"/>
  <character name="frank"/>
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<panel>
  <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="orange">God, I hate sysadmin work.</caption>
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