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<p>Roll up, roll up!</p> | <p>Roll up, roll up!</p> | ||
<p>* * *</p> | <p>* * *</p> | ||
| − | <div>The stupendousest night of the season comes afoot as</div> | + | <div style="padding-bottom:0.25em;">The stupendousest night of the season comes afoot as</div> |
| − | <div style="font-size:135%;font-variant:small-caps;">Professor Ignatius Maximillian Albertus Crank</div> | + | <div style="font-size:135%; font-variant:small-caps; padding-bottom:0.25em;">Professor Ignatius Maximillian Albertus Crank</div> |
| − | <div>provides intellectual conceits to the community, </div> | + | <div style="padding-bottom:0.25em;">provides intellectual conceits to the community, </div> |
| − | <div>and a Sample of his Hair Wares for your entertainment!</div> | + | <div>and a Sample of his Hair Wares for your "entertainment"!</div> |
| − | <p>* * *</ | + | <p>* * *</p> |
<p>Cranee this Monterfest! Seven nights minus six only!</p> | <p>Cranee this Monterfest! Seven nights minus six only!</p> | ||
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<div>For a contrivance of your [[Quezloos]]: </div> | <div>For a contrivance of your [[Quezloos]]: </div> | ||
| − | < | + | <p style="font-variant:small-caps;text-align:center;">"Astonishing" Hair Tonic</p> |
| − | <div>Never again will your hairy parts be hairyless! Winter is coming; don't be caught a fool with your sensitive parts frozen to the surroundings.</div> | + | <div>Never again will your hairy parts be hairyless! Winter is "coming"; don't be caught a fool with your sensitive parts frozen to the surroundings.</div> |
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<div style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lo! Prof. I.M. Albertus Crank</div> | <div style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lo! Prof. I.M. Albertus Crank</div> | ||
| − | <div>will demonstrate the mysteries of the quayres as he re-enacts his famous</div> | + | <div>will demonstrate the "mysteries" of the quayres as he re-enacts his famous</div> |
<div><strong>potting of the ten kettles</strong></div> | <div><strong>potting of the ten kettles</strong></div> | ||
| − | <div>being as he is a world class and most utterly excellent handler of those Stoppers and Steppers.</div> | + | <div>being as he is a world class and most utterly "excellent" handler of those Stoppers and Steppers.</div> |
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<div>Discoverer of Elminster Mire's <strong>talking dead</strong>!</div> | <div>Discoverer of Elminster Mire's <strong>talking dead</strong>!</div> | ||
<div>Adventurer, philanthropist, scholar, doctor, horse waxer, entrepreneur, pharmacologist, gut screamer, and theologian!</div> | <div>Adventurer, philanthropist, scholar, doctor, horse waxer, entrepreneur, pharmacologist, gut screamer, and theologian!</div> | ||
| − | < | + | <p style="font-variant:small-caps;">Prof. I.M. Albertus Crank</p> |
<div><strong>Will be appearing</strong> for your entertainment</div> | <div><strong>Will be appearing</strong> for your entertainment</div> | ||
<div>in <strong>Cranee</strong>, this coming Monterfest!</div> | <div>in <strong>Cranee</strong>, this coming Monterfest!</div> | ||
Revision as of 12:14, 6 November 2004
[The following is a transcript of the only known contemporary mention of Professor Ignatius Maximillian Albertus Crank; from an advertisement handed out in a fete programme in roughly -80 EC.]
Roll up, roll up!
* * *
The stupendousest night of the season comes afoot as
Professor Ignatius Maximillian Albertus Crank
provides intellectual conceits to the community,
and a Sample of his Hair Wares for your "entertainment"!
* * *
Cranee this Monterfest! Seven nights minus six only!
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For a contrivance of your Quezloos:
"Astonishing" Hair Tonic Never again will your hairy parts be hairyless! Winter is "coming"; don't be caught a fool with your sensitive parts frozen to the surroundings.
Lo! Prof. I.M. Albertus Crank
will demonstrate the "mysteries" of the quayres as he re-enacts his famous
potting of the ten kettles
being as he is a world class and most utterly "excellent" handler of those Stoppers and Steppers.
"Help, for I am trapped in a strange advertisement!"
Will Fessor Crank again flaunt his famous
* multiple aedeaguses *
in front of the crowd? We just do not know!!!
Turn up, find out, be AMAZED!
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Appearing alongside Professor Crank will be...
Jigglier than a pink pachyderm;
Cuddlier than an alluring avian!
The one and amazing only Miss. Hairy Mandibles (MDip, BNCS, COBB, FLap).
So Don't Miss Out:
Discoverer of Elminster Mire's talking dead!
Adventurer, philanthropist, scholar, doctor, horse waxer, entrepreneur, pharmacologist, gut screamer, and theologian!
Prof. I.M. Albertus Crank Will be appearing for your entertainment
in Cranee, this coming Monterfest!
Next Monterfest Show:
Pantheon of Diseases!
Coming again only to Cranee.
(For bookings, contact the pox office.)
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Citations: Fijjit_Mejora, Quezloos, @@.
--Sean B. Palmer 10:57, 6 Nov 2004 (EST)
