Vol. 90,  No. 2
Hellmouth,  Arizona
Mar. 10,  1990
 OHHOHOHO FOUND!
        The word that mighty towns and anxious villages all over the world have been waiting and hoping for was flashed yesterday across television screens, computer terminals and radio dials everywhere to the accompaniment of a rising crescendo of congratulations and good wishes.  Teletypes and fax machines overheated and at least one satellite failed in a futile attempt to satisfy the demand for information as the news spread about Professor Mitsuo Ohhohoho, who was found alive at last by an international search team only two miles from where he disappeared last year.  The end of the most celebrated missing persons case since Lindbergh's baby came with stunning swiftness as the find was announced by Senhor Teófilo Afonso Rosario Sobradinho. The Brazilian primatologist had been seeking the whereabouts of his friend and mentor ever since he failed to return to the Urubupunga Research Station, situated on the wandering banks of the sluggish Carauari River, deep in the heart of the ancient, ant-strewn Amazon.
        The professor, author of Mitsuo's Monkeys and My Life with the Macaques, seemed a bit befuddled as he stood blinking in the hot sun, festooned with lianas, his safari jacket torn in two places, and his spectacles slightly askew.  He offered no immediate explanation as to where he had been or what he had been doing.  The search team, which at one time included fifty-seven people, had shrunk considerably by the time the professor was found.  The group had followed what looked like his trail from Urubupunga to Badongo-Gazimbi to the Ipululu
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EARLY PRIMATE FOSSILS
DISCOVERED IN TOGOBOGO
 

NEW KEEPER INJURED BY
ENRAGED STINKY GALAGO

(UPI)  Hellmouth, AZ.  A veteran animal
keeper new to the Hellmouth Municipal
Zoo and Exotic Animal Crematorium was
seriously wounded on Friday in an attack
by a maddened Gabonese stinky galago.
Several zoo officials speculated that the ill-
tempered prosimian became angry when its
breakfast was late and came at the keeper in
a form of locomotion that could be best
described perhaps as saltatory bipedalism.
The keeper was frightened by the galago's
grin face and hissing vocalizations and fell
over, whereupon the animal with its robust
muzzle and powerful toilet claws set upon
him.  He was finally pulled to safety by
another keeper.
 
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(Reuters)  Ashanti, Togobogo.  Not a few primatologists and
several other people were startled last week to receive sketchy
reports on their computer terminals about the discovery of a
large number of important new fossils appearing to be of a
primate affiliation dating from approximately 60 million years
ago, the virtual dawn of the primate age.
      The fossils were those of an apparently related group of
seven individuals from a species whose only other remains
were found in 1922 at the southern end of Lake Badongo.  From
the position of the skeletons, it was evident that a sandstorm or
a meteor strike or a landslide or possibly a volcanic eruption or
an earthquake or continental drift or a change in the weather or
ill will on the part of some other group or just carelessness or
something had caused them to be buried suddenly.
      Several researchers speculated that the animals had been
peacefully going about their business that luckless afternoon
so long ago when disaster struck and they were entombed for
millions of months, only to be fortuitously dug up at last by a
team of cheerful excavators led by the well-known and much-
televised Sir Ian Spotswood Allenby Crofford-Wiggles, called
'Allen' by his friends, one of Ireland's most sought-after
primatologists and acknowledged world authority on the giant
pygmy chimpanzee.
      Crofford-Wiggles has been in Togobogo trying to find
evidence to support his theory that the primate line began in
West Africa.  The redoubtable Irishman reacted to the
discovery with restrained enthusiasm, first doing an Irish jig
and calling out to his ancestors, then jumping up and down
and beating the ground with a shillelagh.
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