Gerald was the first proper dragon to be bred (thanks to genetic engineering of Komodo dragon genes) in over 3,000 years. Unfortunately his cannibalistic tendencies emerged when he was only 3 weeks hatched; with no other dragons to feed upon he effectively ate himself within 20 minutes, starting at his tail. No further attempts were made to reintroduce the semi-legendary beast and the Chinese genetics team went back to working on a cure for male-pattern baldness.
Joe had been the company’s Health & Safety Officer for 11 years and his advice on all matters pertaining to staff welfare and safe working practices had been religiously followed by the workforce. Sadly some of his advice was not as accurate as it might have been, and in his time at the company there had been an average of 5 deaths every year and multiple maimings. Three weeks after he retired Joe died whilst repairing the family’s toaster in the tub.
It was at his step-mother’s funeral that Josh first had the idea for a steampunk funeral service, and he never looked back….
The James family were already famous for their diner’s grits in the Carolinas, but even some of their customers were surprised by their decision to apply to the Cirque du Soleil acrobatic training school in France; but as paterfamilias Joe (standing on the left) said, “it’s time to take the family brand global.”
Even with the corporal helping Jan-Xi realised he was never going to get the damn truck going with a “bump start”, and without a set of jump leads things did not look good; at this rate the rest of the Company might as well have been on the other side of the moon. He was definitely not going to make it to base in time for dinner tonight!
Everybody’s January dream……
Jason had never been quite the same since he swallowed the balloon at Christmas, but until it deflated he was planning to have a great time catching birds unaware in the neighbourhood trees.
Gerald and his twin-brother John had always dreamed of working in customer support and when the chance arrived to work for a major Japanese electronics company at their Indian call centre, they jumped at the chance. It was only after 2 weeks of 18 hour daily shifts that they both realised that they had made a terrible mistake; there are only so many times one can say “Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again?” before terminal ennui causes the brain to shut down completely.
Just a personal view but, boy did they call that one wrong…
After the very embarrassing incident with the broken shatter-proof glass at its launch the Tesla pickup underwent significant modifications before the first deliveries were made to the general public.
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