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.
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!
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.
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.
Steve had been unhappy for years and his career in accounting at PWC had not given him the satisfaction he craved. After being dismissed for gross misconduct at the office party (and divorced for the same incident) he finally found peace and happiness as a greeter at his local Walmart. Shortly after this picture was taken he was promoted to store manager and announced his engagement to his long-term partner “Tiddles”.
Basic training in the PLA was generally dull, tiring and severely lacking in fun, but things began to look up after the Special Forces training unit introduced “Games Night”. Pretty much every training platoon joined in the fun and the rate of enlistments after conscription was gratifyingly improved across all of the armed forces.
Gilbert was normally considered to be one of the zoo’s more sober characters, right up until he saw the evening news on the BBC concerning the Iran contretemps, the impeachment fracas in the US, a BREXIT update and the results of the UK general election. He was euthenased shortly after this picture was taken because of his uncontrolled hysteria and because he made the staff feel slightly ridiculous.
In 1932 Mme Chloë Arnaud set out on her round the world trip accompanied by her chauffeur in an amphibious automobile designed by her husband. This photograph was taken as they were about to leave terra firma and embark on the sea-going part of their epic voyage, just down the coast from La Rochelle on France’s Atlantic coast. Never seen again they were deeply mourned by M. Arnaud for three months, after which he married his secretary; he never designed another vehicle, focusing instead on the family’s truffle business which he had worked in before his one attempt at automobile design.
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