Sunday 29th December 2002; Issue 2

BEGUN, THIS
CLONE WAR HAS

Dear Ethel...

dear ethel,
my friend has buggered off somewhere insted of coming to see me this week like they said they would. plz help me, ive not seen them in ages and am missing our little chats. from a troubled teenager.

Dear Troubled,
my advice would be for you to shop your friend to the CIA as being someone who once flew in a plane. They will immediately class your friend as a terrorist, imprison them without trial and keep them in the High Security wing of Pennsylvania State Penitentiary. You’ll never wonder where your friend is again!

Ethel x


Got a problem? Need to get it off your chest? Unable to ask your mum because it’s too embarassing? For top advice, e-mail Ethel!

Professor Francis T. Bargle, a leading geneticist and part-time theologian, has revealed that a US sect has cloned the first ever human being! Though the movement is shrouded in mystery, the ‘Californian Clone Cult’, as it is secretly known, revealed proof that they now have a cloned baby.

Father’s Nose!

“I met both the original ‘father’ and the cloned boy,” Bargle told an excited press conference today, “I can tell you now that the resemblance was most disturbing. He definitely had his father’s nose, but his eyes were a different colour. Despite this, I am sure that no such similarity could be caused without biogenetic interference!”

Claire Timkins, or ‘Supreme Prophet Achamoth Asyrius’ as she likes to be known, explained the inspiration for the project: “We received a divine revelation when we attended trip with the Junior Adept Meet to see ‘Star Wars’. There we saw we all had to lead the world into the light by cloning as many people as possible, so naturally, we started tests.”

Method!

The human clone was born at a top-secret location somewhere in the United States, and the scientific community are eager to get their hands on him for proper genetic testing. However, the cult has given away some details of the complex cloning technique. “We’re not really into all that fannying about with test tubes, latex gloves and electrophoretic DNA

Ultrasound image of the Clone Warrior foetus in the womb
Ultrasound image of the Clone Warrior foetus in the womb

separation,” said one lab technician, “it’s so much easier to make loads of close-as-damnit-to-clones using conventional techniques, like shagging.”

The CCC plan to create hundreds of followers by a programme of enforced, frequent and kinky sex over the next five years. He also stated that, to counter the massive food demands a sudden multiplication of global population would cause, the CCC had already persuaded President Bush to “kill everything, and purify the planet with nuclear-biological-chemical war,” though, he conceded, “that's probably not going to happen until April.”

Science!

Whatever the religious implications, the scientific community is amazed. “That people can create near-replicas of themselves, simply though sexual intercourse, is proof that the 21st Century is the age of medicine.” said Professor Bargle.

The cult hope to have an army of five thousand Clone Warriors ready to take over the world in about twenty years’ time. So, why sit here reading when you could be upstairs having fun and taking over the World?

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Tory Leader Makes News

The Conservative party vowed to make 2003 a year of increased popularity today, just like they vowed that about 2002. Despite Labour making blunders aplenty, the Tories have failed to claw back any of their share of the vote.

Senior party spin doctors would blame the leader, if they could remember his name. “Thingy has a really low profile in the public eye,” complained Marvin Wilcox, a publicity secretary, “He needs to do something punchy,

A man who was hogging the Conservative stand while our photographer waited for the leader to arrive
A man who was hogging the Conservative stand while our photographer waited for the leader to arrive

grab some headlines, like Prescott did.”

“By June 2003, at least half the population of Great Britain will know my name,” swore whatshisface, the Party Leader, in his New Year address. Though he has recently been criticised as being ‘less popular than a kick in the teeth at 3am on a wet Thursday’, he today attacked his critics, saying that

some people cause trouble specifically in order to get kicked in the teeth.

“The party leader is an excellent politician,” one backbench source told Passenger. “I assure you, if Ken Clarke can't win the next election for us, no-one can!”

The Tories certainly won’t have an easy year ahead, but political observers are confident that the latest vow by whoever is in charge of the Conservative Party might mean his name appears in some newspapers at least once.

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