Brian listened to Rich tell one more stupid

Brian listened to Rich tell one more stupid joke. He winced at the easily anticipated punchline. Rich was young and oblivious.

Brian resisted the urge to be brutally honest, as Rich would only get angry. Instead, he decided to show by example how real comedy was done. He brought Rich to the

end of Brighton pier to the Punch & Judy show. While Punch was hitting Judy over the head with some sausages, Brian whispered, "Observe & learn, Rich. Comedy doesn't get more comic

than a guy abusing his wife with a sausage." Then Judy shot Punch. She was arrested, tried, convicted of murder and hung until dead. The end. Rich was appalled. Brian was laughing

and Tony was just looking at them and wondering how he was going to get out of this town. Nothing but two bit writing. Rich and Brian noticed he was lost in thought, they took a

o Byzantium no longer had the urgency it had had during the Days of the Archons. That the mysteries were more hidden than ever that even a hint was seen as a call for Manicheanism.

Hitman Anders was, two years later, a priest of the Order of Reptilian Guardians of The Universe. He was not qualified for anything more but did his job so well the Archons joined.

But the Archons were not very good at paying their tithes and were eventually kicked out of the Reptilian Guardians of the Universe Temple and Wedding Chapel. Priest Anders told

them that he might possibly consider allowing them reentry into his kingdom if they paid their dues, with interest, of course. The Archons refused. They had business elsewhere.