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July 15, 2006
Treachery
No sooner had Mr Grimsdyke's train left Bloggington station than treachery struck the town's library service.
Mr Grimsdyke has always resolutely refused to become a member of SYRUP, the library professional trade body, or SCL, the Society for Closing Libraries or ACL the Association for the Closure of Libraries, and he will have no dealings with all those who have received OBE's for their devotion to Mr Woolly Jumper and the Department of Common Sense (DCMS) or aspired to be subservient to DLA (Delay: the Department of Libraries and Archives). He will not join the Knitting Agency. In other words he has devoted himself with singular resolution to the libraries of Bloggington on Sea
Within the hour after the train with Mr Grimsdyke on board chuffed gaily northwards from the station Mr Garry Baldy, who is the head of many of those bodies, but not all, was on the phone to Mayor Tomato. He and Mrs Dumpling, the head of the Recovery Centre programme in Barsetshire offered the Mayor a special deal. "Come over to our side" was the drift. The libraries of Bloggington can no longer stand alone. Books must be removed here as they have been everywhere else. Mr Baldy claimed to bring messages of affection from Lord Ginger Nut of Television, Mr Custard Cream OBE, Lady Cheese and Tomato Sandwich OBE,RAF,CBI,MI5,CIA,KGB, Miss Bo Peep (just OBE), Mrs Thin Biscuit of ERASE (the charity for removing words from books) and the Countess of Lemon Curd (who spent the day at the races).
The Mayor is always open to deals. We have to hope that he does not see any virtue in this one. Lock up your daughters. The very devil is on the doorstep.
Was the deal with the Mayor of Dumchester set up by these people? It begins to look like a government conspiracy to remove Mr Grimsdyke in exchange for a lifetime supply of strawberry milkshake. The libraries will be turned into Casinos.
Posted by Perkins at July 15, 2006 9:09 PM
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The libraries already have been turned into Casinos.
Posted by: SUSAN HILL at July 16, 2006 9:17 AM