Gossamer Wings in Product Recall
Wellington Leg: Gossamer Werke KG, the largest employer in Henley Hornbrook, is laying off staff after a product recall on their wings was announced by the company. The recall shook investors at the Piltdown Exchange on a triple witching Friday a day when futures expirations, milk expirations, and three week old cheese often combine to frighten the masses almost as much as remakes of musicals do.
In a bizarre coincidence the trial of the Earl’s Hogs began in Devizes Court where a Greek Chorus sang snatches of standard hits to remain “in voice” for the big proceedings. Many of the recent trials heard by Judge Hamilcar Frist have ended in hung juries thus creating a scarcity of jurors not seen since the eruption of Mount Pajama. This summer’s lava flow skirted Wellington Leg devoting its unwanted attentions on suburban Goth and environs.
Nevertheless Judge Frist has ordered a high court rarity, a “musical” trial wherein all parties must sing their parts. In the Matter of the Earl’s Hogs versus Wellington Leg, the issue is not singing, of course, but rather the nuisance value created when 314 market weight porkers conspire to disrupt pork belly trading on the exchange.
Lazlo Stutz, a pork belly man on gossamer wings crashed to earth near the statue of Venus in Blue Jeans moments before the gavel came down ending the day of trading but opening the court for business. His gossamer wings may have been tampered with, Mr. Stutz reported.