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Good morning, good morning, good morning. And what a lovely day it is! Rise and shine, rise and shine. The weather will be hot and fine all day.

URGENT NOTICE! There is the distinct possibility of unauthorized surveillance aircraft fly-bys today. Should any be detected, the village siren will be sounded, and all citizens are advised to remain indoors. Anti-aircraft fire will be used in such cases to preserve the security of the community. We will hold fast through this troubling time with our faith in our strong, equal, fair, free and cohesive community.

IN THE NEWS- Congratulations to all citizens, and especially to our stellar scientific rocket crew! Our most recent mission, 'Rover 1', has successfully landed on Mars' surface. It is now collecting pictures, atmosphere measurements, and rock samples. First pictures are available in today's Tally Ho. A brief description of the mission: Rover 1 entered the atmosphere of Mars as a tetrahedron-shaped lander. As it landed, however, huge breathing balloons of Rover inflated, and the lander bounced on the surface before settling safely. Then the Rover landing balloons separated themselves to protect the lander's electronic equipment from possible unfriendly entities. (Such entities, if found, will be brought back and studied in our cosmic biology lab.) Sadly, the backward and unhappy 'world-at-large' will never credit these great discoveries to our scientists and our great community. For the sake of security, a subterfuge was devised such that the world at large will share in our ostensible discoveries, under the apprehension that NASA was responsible. Simple fools as they are, they shall never appreciate the full extent of our discoveries and our research. But there is a greater story here!

Head scientist of our rocket crew is No. 235, and it was his diligent effort and superhuman tenacity that took this project on the long journey from initial conception to its present, astonishing reality. A very old man, his services were made available to us by both our Personnel Acquisitions and our Longevity Studies Department, or LSD. Kindly refrain from addressing No. 235 as 'Wernher' or 'Dr. Von Braun' as these are titles both unknown and unpleasant to him. Any individuals caught using such inappropriate and illegal names will be brought in for either instant social conversion or more extreme measures.

Updates will appear as they occur. Reported by No. 23 (previously known as Jesse Merlin)

(c) Jesse Merlin1997

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