BREAKING SATIRICAL NEWS (Iconoclast)

ICONOCLAST ^ | WILLIAM GRIM, et al

[Apolitical]

CRACK DIVISION OF FRENCH MIMES DISPATCHED TO MAINTAIN PEACE IN SOUTHERN LEBANON



PARIS -- President Jacques Chirac of France has announced that his country will send an elite squad of 700 mimes to aid with peacekeeping in southern Lebanon, in the coming weeks.

France's legendary Marceau (Mime) Division -- who do not carry weapons -- will join UN forces along the Israeli-Lebanese border by the end of September. The Marceau Division became famous during the Second World War, when 20 of its mimes drove 300 Gestapo officers to mass suicide by performing a routine called, "A Man Goosestepping Against the Wind," non-stop for thirteen hours in the city centre of Toulouse.

In preparation for their mission in the Middle East, the Marceau Division are said to be practicing new routines, including: "A Man Beating his Wife Because She Showed her Elbow to a Stranger" .....

[Apolitical]

Not far from the reality of matters in Southern Lebanon these days!

[dhuffman@awod.com]

An unreal challenge for our mime-clearing teams. Let God sort 'em out.

[Clioman]

IIRC, Princess Diana was deeply involved in the campaign to outlaw land mimes. She was very series about it...a hugh problem.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

Yes. Anti-ship mimes are strangely silent - too busy ... the metaphoric string has run out.

But look, aprons, chefs' hats, vinyl gloves, facial hair, kitchen clogs - all the affectations of the food-server class, the barista wannabes.

Hmmm, a menu-mime? A menu-meme? "How will madame have her trussed-chicken?"

[Clioman]

Nothing quite as fearsome as an assault by the French Fighting Chefs...truly "Death From Within!"