RABID TIMES

Volume 7 - Issue 4

1-January-2000

 

 

OMNIMULTIPLING

Hotmail can only cope with groups of fifty e-mail addresses. There are far too many members of the RSS to fit in one group, so you have been split into sections of roughly fifty agents. You will now be given orders, Rabid Times, and everything else through these sections. At the moment I have given you exciting names such as Section A and B, you can sort it out amongst yourselves if you want better names.

I am working on a 'members only' page for the website. It is funny, and will be well hidden from all those rabid squirrels trying to prise information from the site.

There, I managed to get through the editorial without saying millennium once.

The Master Hunter

theMaster@RabidSquirrels.co.uk

www.RabidSquirrels.co.uk

 

 

VEGETATIVE STATE

Visit the Magic Carrot on the ‘History’ page.

The Magic Carrot began life as an ordinary carrot in an ordinary field on an ordinary farm in an ordinary town. Things were very ordinary. The Magic Carrot lay in a fresh patch of soil with his carrot brothers and sisters. Then one day...

A rabid squirrel came to the ordinary farm, scouting out some new territory that Sly thought might be useful. Feeling a bit peckish, the rabid squirrel looked down at its feet and saw carrots, hundreds of carrots! The rabid squirrel would have preferred a nice bit of raw human flesh, but a juicy carrot would do. The squirrel chose one fat carrot, which would soon be known as the Magic Carrot.

The rabid squirrel swallowed the shocked Magic Carrot whole, a greedy look of satisfaction on its face. However, the Magic Carrot was not beaten yet. Rudely taken from his warm earth and eaten, The Magic Carrot wanted his revenge. He called upon Horange, the God of Carrots, to save him. Horange gave the carrot magical powers! The now ‘Magic’ Carrot incinerated the rabid squirrel from the inside, and jumped out to a round of applause from his fellow carrots.

The Magic Carrot was not satisfied with just killing that rabid squirrel, he wanted them all. So this savage killing machine joined the RSS, and has been our mascot ever since. To this day, no one has ever eaten the Magic Carrot and lived.

 

 

MAKE HIM SQUEAK

Section A were given Mission 2 a few weeks back. What they discovered is extremely valuable to us. Here is the briefing to remind you of the mission, along with some of the results:

 

MISSION 2

Mission Name: Squirrelnap.

Type: Capture and interrogate.

Deadline: 31.12.99

Location: Your choice.

Summary: Find a rabid squirrel, on its own. Capture the rabid squirrel without threatening your life. Interrogate the rabid squirrel on the subject of rabid squirrel vulnerabilities. You may take measures to make the rodent talk. Write a short report on your findings and send it to RSS headquarters.

 

RESULTS

Rabid squirrel vulnerabilities: most have bad hand-eye coordination causing many to fall from the trees. I witnessed a fall where upon the squirrel was caught and interrogated he died from lack of intelligence

Agent jm15m

 

 

After receiving the next mission, I attempted to enter the frozen squirrels drey, as it has been snowing, disguised as a woolly hat salesman. I interrogated Fuzzball the grim mighty high lord of the horndean squirrels, but before I had a chance to get any info out of him, he revealed a belt of dynamite, and blew himself up shouting "mouldy bananas!!!" I am now armless as a result of this and am writing to you using my feet.

Agent bellyknickers99.

 

 

After sitting in my child’s tree house for 2 weeks without food or water, I have discovered a new group of Rabid Squirrels. There are about 34 of the bastards, going around killing the old, unsuspecting Grannies.

As I was walking down the road, yesterday, I noticed something rustling in the bushes. out of the corner of my eye, I saw it's evil face and with a quick pounce, much like a big cat on a gazzel I caught the b*****d.  It tried nibbling my hands but my rock hard English hands stayed firm until I got the little blighter home. After tying him up with 2 roles of celotape and sticking brussel sprouts in every possible crevice except his mouth, I questioned him.  The results are as follows:

    *There secret Hampshire Hideout is in the Petersfield branch of Somerfield

    *More clans of Rabid Squirrels are being formed as we type

    *There week point is in fact, TOASTED MARSHMALLOWS; they cannot handle the taste or burntness of them.

    *I have now purchased 24 bags of Marshmallows, waiting for the attack

Agent 158...over and out

 

 

I staked out a field near my house where I've been suspecting a certain rabid squirrel has been trying to infect the non-rabid squirrels and field mice with the rabies virus.  I stunned the little bugger with a blowgun dart and dragged him to my woodshed where I interrogated him thoroughly for hours before he self-destructed via some clever mechanism inserted in them when they turn bad. I found out some very interesting things...

If you feed them sweets, particularly stale Christmas pudding, they will tell you just about anything you want to know.

If you swab out their ears with Q-tips dipped in alcohol, their keen sense of hearing seems to weaken quite a bit.

If you smack them about the legs, they get a tad excited.

But here's the really key thing:  they can be smoked out of their hiding places with ordinary pipe smoke... it makes them groggy, at which point they can be rounded up and destroyed or tortured just for fun.

WARNING: watch out for their tails! They are developing a set of spines similar to porcupines and one poke can give you a nasty rash!

That is all for now... I’m still cleaning up the mess in the shed.

Big Slayer Danielson

 

 

Diary of a Mad-squirrel killer man

As instructed by my superior, Gen. Watling, I set out immediately into the nearest woods. Now, living in New Mexico and doing that is kind of hard, so I settled for a local park. Ahh, now we begin...

I slowly walked the Outer Rim of the Squirrels Habitat, he looked so happy gathering those acorns & severed limbs, though I knew what He was really like.  I saw those fiery eyes ablaze with hate for Human kind. I drew my M-41A standard issue Pulse Rifle from my side, and then began to take aim. "Wait a minute," I thought, "I was supposed to capture and interrogate that cute little fuzzy guy, not dissolve him." (General Watling specifically told me "...and NO disintegrations.") So I calmly cast my weapon aside and put on an iron glove. I slid around the tree then proceeded to grab him. I felt his bones crack as I triumphantly raised his tiny little body into the air, then said in my most ferocious voice, “Tell me of your Mighty King Fuzzball, or I shall crack your ribs!" To this he spit an acorn in my eye. "C'mon, dude, just tell me. You really are too cute to hurt. I'll do it though, I think." Now I had him. I took him back to my place where I sat him in a chair and we discussed (I got him drunk.) his evil legion, and how they're planning to destroy us. Later I cut off his ear, poured gasoline on him and sang, "'Cause I'm...stuck in the middle with you" just like Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs. I always wanted to do that.  Now, here is what I gathered from my interrogation.

WHAT:                        Possible new species; seems clear enough to me enough to be invisible.

NAME:                        Spectre Squirrel

HEIGHT:                     Umm...2 feet? That alright?

WEIGHT:                    25 lbs. I'd be fat, too, if nobody could see me

OCCUPATION:          Probably for sabotage, espionage, etc. Watches pro wrestling

SPECIAL:                    They are invisible. Only their eyes can be seen.

BACKGROUND:        Probably Russian squirrels from Chernobyl (grammar?!) that have come to America to feed on the nuclear energy, or something. Hurts when they bite you, though...  ahh, my squirrel sense is tingling.

Agent crazyred

 

 

Living in the woods, I see many squirrels and hear even more.  I walked outside into the fresh winter air and listened.  I followed some chittering to a squirrel's hideaway.  Much to my surprise, the squirrel was happily typing away on its computer.  I was so awed I let my mouth drop open, and the smell of the 'everything bagel' I had for lunch frightened it away.  Fortunately, its computer wasn't a laptop, so I took a peek even though I heard self destruct signals.  (Which, by the way, I think everyone should be trained to hear.  I have known since I was little and have learned to differentiate between 'immediate' and 'soon' signals.  This was a 'soon' signal, so I knew I had a bit of time to look...anyway...) I happened to notice this e-mail on screen:

It is time for revenge!!!  We will capture and evilly interrogate any RSS members that come within our lairs.  Unfortunately, our funds have been mostly spent on 'THE PROJECT' so the interrogation of RSS members will have to be done before the end of the year when 'THE PROJECT' makes all computers crash.  (Blame it on Y2K!!!!)  I have planned an attack with my fellows to seek out the lair of the one who lives near here.  Here is a detailed description of our plan, with the date, time, address, and, just for fun, a major Rabid Squirrel weakness...

Of course, the signal had to change RIGHT THEN to an immediate signal...I high tailed it out of there, (so to speak,) and am now in my nice warm room.  Unfortunately, I fear I am the only RSS in the vicinity.  *Sigh* I did notice that the squirrels have some similarities to us.  (Such as mission type things and e-mail correspondence.)  I did also notice, I can't recall the RSS making any plans for Y2K!  Especially with this 'PROJECT' thing looming in my mind, along with impending doom, I'm just not in a very happy mood.  Attempts have been made to contact the closest RSS member, but we are not able to connect.  I fear this may be the last you hear from me. 

Big Slayer Jennifer K.

 

 

Other sections will have the mission soon, and those of you who need promotions will be sorted out this month.

 

 

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