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Date:         Fri, 6 Oct 1995 00:19:49 +0000
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From:         "Joe Clark" <jclark@polaris.net>
Subject:      Re: Kombi on fire

Quoth Cheese:

>Reminds me of the Furry Freak Brothers driving their old VW hippie bus

That would be Freak Brothers #4 ("Brother, can you spare 75c for the Freak Brothers?"), inside back cover, specifically an episode of Fat Freddy's Cat:

panel 1: FF's Cat reminiscing. "Don't let anyone tell you that tumbleweeds aren't dangerous!"

panel 2: FFFB's splittie bus tooling through the hot desert.

panel 3: Phineas to Freddy (at wheel): "Watch out! You're gonna hit that tumbleweed!"

panel 4: Tumbleweed tumbles underneath van. Freddy: "Ha ha ha! A tumbleweed can't do anything to you! They're light as a feather!"

panel 5: Closeup of Franklin, Phineas, and Freddy's disturbed faces and a loud SCRAPE underneath van.

panel 6: Van on side of road, Phineas reaching underneath engine: "It's stuck under the frame!"

panel 7: Smoke curling up from underneath van. Phineas with worry-sweat coming off his head: "It's gotten way up beside the muffler! Ow! It's Hot!"

panel 8: Phineas leaps away from van. FWOOP! Flames appear. "EEEYAAHH! We're on fire!"

panel 9: FFFB's running for lives as van goes BA-DOOM in background.

panel 10: Forlorn FFFB's sit beside charred ruin of van.

panle 11: Two tumbleweeds on ridge overlooking plume of smoke underneath full moon. 1st Tumbleweed: "Another blow for freedom!" 2nd Tumbleweed: "Soon, the highways will be ours!"

(no bobware in sight, btw)

Of course it's all so much funnier with the pictures. Helps too if you're 19, living in the dorms in Gainesville, with a towel stuffed underneath the door to keep the RA from smelling that smoke.

Or so I've been told.

Joe Joe Clark jclark@nexus.polaris.net http://www.polaris.net/~jclark/ Floridiana.Fiction.VWs.Kidstuff.CBT.Whimsy-by-the-truckload.

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