Eletrco-shock treatment has been making a comeback due to rumors that it greatly helped Kobold Cleaver.
So, they decided to use one hundred rats running frantically in one hundred wheels to generate the necessary current.
Ridnir Tecth manned the capacitor, urging the rodents to faster and faster revolutions.
They strapped a new test subject down and began applying treatment.
Electricity began to arc across the infernal rodent-driven machine as Dr. Tetch cackled maniacally.
"Run, my little rattish minions!!!"
The restrained patient began jerking spasmodically as 50,000 watts of electricity ran through his frontal lobe.
He began having visions of Jimmy Carter dressed in a ballerina outfit, and Nixon dressed like Bozo the Clown.
Dr Tetch grinned and pushed the capacitors right up to Maximum Flux.
"Jimmy" and "Nixon" began dancing the Waltz, swirling and twirling around the floor in graceful glee.
The music they danced to was Kiss' "God of Thunder".
Then Spiro Agnew and Eugene McCarthy got into a stylized knife fight dance number like they were in a bad production of West Side Story.
Natalie Portman showed up next, dancing like a maniac in a Padme outfit.
Dr Tetch looked at his galvanically-jerking patient and wondered what was going through his mind besides 50,000 volts of rodent-generated electricity.
Patrick Curtain became addicted to word games, pumping his post count up significantly.
He did, and now he adds one more post to his tally chastising the Kruel one for mistaking his last name for something that is hung around windows.
Some children screamed, a few lovers cried, and all the poets dreamed.
But not a word was spoken.
The bells in the olds church were broken by some vandals.
All around, cows gave spoiled milk.
Three very admired gentlemen decided to catch the last train, which they assumed was heading for the coast.
Unfortunately for two of them, they did not realize the third had been following them, at a discrete distance, since departing from the University of London.
Why the Holy Ghost had been taking a Humanitites course there was anyone's guess.
The two gentlemen found an empty cabin and sat down, the third jumped aboard just as the train took up speed and moved down the tracks.
Suddenly, an elderly and somewhat confused-looking actor by the name of Sean Connery - once the famous star of the James Bond films, which undoubtedly took some inspiration from the books by Ian Fleming but also took some liberties with the character; most notable of issue was the characters treatment of death and sardonic sense of humour, mostly absent in the books in which he is a cold killer - but who was now looking for work in some kind of train-car-murder-mystery of the kind penned by Agatha Christie or perhaps the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - who had not in fact actually written any train-car adventures but probably would have if given the chance or if he developed a predilection for trains and their absurb metaphoric relationship to human sexual relations - as a result of his run-in with a gang of stock brokers to whom he owed a staggering amount of money lost during a heroine-laced night of gambling along the Barbary Coast, and who even now were pursuing him by any means at their disposal, including the use of highly-trained assassins masquerading as mystery-novel authors with lucrative movie contracts.
Roger Moore, on the other hand, was not at all happy to be the follow-up to Sean Connery.
"Tickets, please! Tickets!"
The scruffy conductor lurched down the aisle, dragging his wounded foot.
The injury was an old one, having occurred in the war he fought in so long ago, and never fully healing.
It was something he had to deal with all his life, and it made him bitter and resentful of those who could move around the train that had become his prison.
But this time, he would laugh last.
The coach lights glinted in his cracked spectacles and he continued down the length of the car....grinning....for the time was nigh.
They would all end their twisted lives in the twisted steel of the crushed car; Sir Topham Hat would pay for his insoucience.
In the aftermath, a faint eerie and unnatural sound could be heard emanating from the twisted debris.
Thomas the Tank Engine was breathing his last.
Poor Thomas, he and the little engine that could, would huff and puff no more.
He was as doomed as doomed could be.
He was more doomed than the third Earl of London.
He was thrice as doomed as the third Doom game, but only twice as doomed as Duke Nukem II.
Yet he was nowhere near as doomed as the ancient game known as "Defender".
But needless to say, his doom was nigh, unless Sean Connery could pull himself free of the wreckage and somehow contact Amtrak.
Sadly, however, Amtrak's services had been disrupted by a random act of chaos and violence.
Then, very suddenly, Emily and Gordon (whom Emily quite fancied), managed to guide Harold as he flew Cranky the Crane along the southern end of the Culdee Fell; and presently, Thomas was saved, pulled from the rubble and debris, and Sean Connery happily road back to Barrow-via-Vicarstown, smiling all the way!
Roger Moore, on the other hand, maintained his surly demeanor.
Timothy Dalton, however, had not only been forgotten, but driven from the limelight by an angry mob wielding torches and pitchforks.
Jaws was in a large clear tank, carried on a massive, perfumed sedan chair, hefted by dozens of burly shoulders beneath it, marching in a slow steady rhythm.
He grinned his metal toothy grin, and swam around some.
Jaws pondered on his varied and ever-changing identity, first as a large assasin with a steel-toothed smile that chased the version of James Bond played by Roger Moore in such films as Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me, then as a murderous enormous example of the shark species Carcharodon carcharias that swam around in the waters of the mythical New England island community of Amity and fought Chief Brody, Quint and that scientist guy from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (I can never recall his name) in the now-classic famous Steven Speilberg directed movie known as Jaws, which quite coincedentally was the name he was known as in the James Bond movie franchise, and perhaps why he had suddenly found himself amalgamated into a bizarre steel shark-toothed man/shark hybrid of the two movie characters being carried in a large glass tank on the shoulders of an unruly mob that was chasing the hapless former Bond actor Timothy Dalton through this one sentence thread in the Word Games Forum.
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