<feels sorry for getting Martin into this mess>

<goes to open freezer>

<is attacked by poodle>

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'Who looks after the animals?'

<nodds obligingly to Zuki-pah for the diversion>

<opens the freezer to find frozen Martin>

<goes to look for a blow torch to melt him out again, now that Puck is flame-retardant>

<is still frozen>

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

<hands a blow torch to Lady T.>

<hopes she does not notice his slight grin. Isn't it amazing what you can get to blow out of a torch? And it doesn't even need to be inflammable.>

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It's a newly-discovered breed of fish that keeps your teeth clean, tastes delicious and dissolves in water.
generated with The Prior-Art-O-Matic

< Wonders if 'flame retardant' is really meant to be taken as a challenge >

< hides behind nearest large heavy object>

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Blood! Death! War! Rumpy pumpy! Triumph!

<wonders where 198505 found Amy's elephant>

<tries to distract the poodle by pointing out the Kitten>

<clambers up onto the elephant's back - a much safer vantage point>

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'Who looks after the animals?'

<Rapidly dives behind polyester covered sofa- I mean it says inflammable, that means it won't catch fire, right?>

<crawls to fridge>

<opens door, see foot prints in the butter>

<keeps head down>

<looks dubiously at the blow torch>

<turns it on anyway>

<cheers as the spectacular display of firework-like flames showering out of the nondiscript blow torch scares away the poodle, melts Martin out, and sets the "safe" elephant on a rampage>

<reaches out to grab elephants ears to hold on, but finds they're gone>

<grabs onto overhanging branch>

<is left hanging while the elephant charges off into the distance>

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'Who looks after the animals?'

<is warm and toasty now>

<plans revenge, involving an eggwhisk, a spoon, bar of soap and a dried prune>

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

<is wondering how Martin did get melted, since he only filled the blow torch with lightning bugs>

<is distracted by the increasingly insistent cries of Zuki-Pah>

<settles down to watch him dangling, gently reminding him that as a professional with animals his current plight is utterly his own fault>

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Design #3609494995:
It's a newly-discovered breed of fish that keeps your teeth clean, tastes delicious and dissolves in water.
generated with The Prior-Art-O-Matic

<thought that Zuki was a she>

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

<is confused>

<thinks, if Martin was right, she would be Zuki-Press>

<isn't helped>

<proclaims femininity by squealing louder from high up in the tree>

<hopes a knight in shining armour on a white horse will come save her>

<wonders what has happened to Sir Robert again>

<hopes Prinz will explain the Zuki-Press thing>

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'Who looks after the animals?'

<looks up>

<sees the fire works have stopped>

< pushes sofa under Zuki-pah>

<stands back>

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Blood! Death! War! Rumpy pumpy! Triumph!

<finishes marking 200th essay, goes out into yard and looks up into trees to see what all the racket is>

<goes back inside and sees ad for Western Plains Zoo on television with young lass talking to camera in front of hippo and wonders if it is zuki-pah>

<decides that it's probably not, but the lass could very well be!>

<sniggers that Zuki doesn't get Prinz's wordplay and thinks, "emperor / em - press">