Wellington Leg: The launch of the Book Spacemobile has been delayed sources closest to Big Rock Candy Mountain report. Wellington Leg Orbiting Books, a Nevada Corporation, reported a Big Bang after volatile rocket fuel spilled all over a nearby housing development.
The Flying Squad responded to a complaint from Mrs. Phillida Beaufort of Number Two Politburo Prospekt. “She claimed that scientists had trampled her bed of primroses,” DCI Borchardt reported. The team of specialists had been dispatched to assess the fuel situation. When police arrived they found no scientists but did notice a grazing hippopotamus in the front yard.
One of Our Hippos is Missing: Over at Greg’s Haus of Hippos wrangler Marty is counting noses. “Well, we had thirteen hippos yesterday. Now we have fourteen, I mean, twelve.” Thirteen hippos is a Baker’s Dozen. Fourteen is illegal. Twelve means that one of our hippos is missing.
Mrs. Beaufort is against the orbiting book mobile. Last year a decaying spy satellite fell to earth mere inches from her late model Volkswagen Jetta. “I expect more from our city government than having books falling from the sky,” she said. “And, they are not addressing the hippo menace.”
Hailing the Hippo: “It’s not easy getting the attention of a grazing hippopotamus,” DCI Borchardt said. Members of the Flying Squad shouted and waved their arms to little affect. “Look it’s yawning!” someone cried. Attempts to trap the hippo with butterfly nets only aroused the creature’s ire. Before lumbering off the hippo crushed an official police bicycle.
Some believe that the Big Fat Guys secretly support the books in space program and my be using the hippo threat to garner public support. The space station would have a lookout tower providing an early warning system should hippos mass in numbers near Towne.
Science Editor Delancy Clancy reporting.