Chapter 1
| < Home | Manny
and Mandy are at home watching Network,
their favourite movie of 1976. Mandy likes how it's an apt social commentary in the style of the Fontmann-Klein school of satire from the early 1930s. Manny likes the bit where Howard Beale gets shot by fake hippies. |
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Suddenly, the TV goes blank. What's going on! It's Manny's turn to get up and hit the TV set a few times to get it started again. |
Manny tries his best but can't get the TV restarted. Mandy asks if they've paid this quarter's TV bill and, after looking sheepish for a bit, Manny explains that because the last crop of traffic cones was less than successful, money's been a little sparse. Oh, and there's this global financial downturn thingy going on too, apparently. So, uh, no... the TV bill must have been overlooked this quarter. Oops! |
They'll have to think of something soon, and quick! Mandy won't be able to live without her daytime dose of Fashionable People Doing Stuff. Manny suggests that until the next crop of cones ripens perhaps they could sell something else to get some quick cash. |
No! They can't sell Barkington Stanley! They'd barely get enough to pay for the bus fare home so that idea is totally out of the question. No, instead they'll have to think of something else to sell. |
They think for a while and then Mandy comes up with an idea... How about selling the cow? |
The cow? Oh yes! The cow they got last year that Manny thought would be the perfect mate for Barkington Stanley and from which they could breed litters of lovely black-and-white offspring and live off the profits. That cow! Strange how it's never been mentioned before. |
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Manny agrees and promises that tomorrow he will take the cow into town and see if he can sell it. Until then, he suggests it's perhaps the perfect opportunity to get in a session of serious lurvin'. Preferably without the animals watching. |
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