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Hookbill the Goomba · 03-28-2010, 04:05 PM

Time for some news to make you feel ill about life in general

The story hits a dark spot now...

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien in these confusing and silly stories I'm weaving around, you can look back though the...

PHANTOM AND ALIEN
COMIC ARCHIVE THING

Gosh! Poor Lommy! What kind of revenge will our Pengish trooper take? Will anyone survive her wroth?

Come back on Thursday for THE BIGGEST REVELATION OF THE SERIES! Seriously, it will change your whole view once again. It's that bigger plot twist I've been talking about.

Pitchwife · 03-29-2010, 07:25 AM

Thanks for the effort, Lilyq, but I've already been converted to the Soap Church. You know, cleanliness is next to godliness, and all that...

Hookbill the Goomba · 04-01-2010, 01:20 AM

It's the episode you've all been waiting for! The final revelation to end all revelations!

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien in these confusing and silly stories I'm weaving around, you can look back though the...

PHANTOM AND ALIEN
COMIC ARCHIVE THING

I hope that has changed everything for you!

Now you all know their true identities! It's a strange world and the next fifty episodes are going to be even more incomprehensible!

Loslote · 04-01-2010, 01:31 AM

Whaaaaaat?

wilwarin538 · 04-01-2010, 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Loslote

Whaaaaaat?

agrees.

*wonders if the date has anything to do with this*

Oddwen · 04-01-2010, 10:20 AM

Yaaaaaaay!

Hookbill the Goomba · 04-01-2010, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Eönwë

Gráfmüƨt?

Yrжim Θmgλraft Ufgtҝї!!

And, incidentally, I think the date has EVERYTHING to do with today's episode.

Eönwë · 04-01-2010, 01:12 PM

Gráfmüƨt?

Eönwë · 04-01-2010, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

Yrжim Θmgλraft Ufgtҝї!!

Pårɓeđǣƾ Schɱaʓłɘst!

PS. I tried to edit my last post to include the title but instead it deleted it. So if you're reading this and wondering how/where Hookbill quoted me, this is your answer.

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Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

And, incidentally, I think the date has EVERYTHING to do with today's episode.

John Fillis moonlights as Shcmurt!

Legate of Amon Lanc · 04-01-2010, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Eönwë

Gráfmüƨt?

Oh, I love this. My favourite F&S quote by far (including the first part of the "dialogue" which Eönwë put in his post title so I can't quote it).

Anyway, I have to remark that I was most delighted to see this episode (and also amused to see poor Lottie's shock

). These two guys really have to appear more often... Moldutch, sorry, I wanted to say Hookbill (for the record, the mistake was genuine. I have decided to keep it), I don't know how it happened, but F&S somehow became legendary even among some of my youngest cousin's classmates (having not been at home for eight months, I was suddenly told that they have been spending some afternoons out quoting "Fungoltch and Shcmurt save Christmas", so...)

Pitchwife · 04-01-2010, 03:16 PM

Great one, Hookbill!

I absolutely second Legate's demand for more F&S appearances in the future.*

And Lottie, if you're looking for a scientific explanation, my guess would be that FutureAlien's time-travels caused a rift in the continuum that allowed Fungoltch unt Shcmurt to cross over from their parallel universe into P&A's... but I suppose that makes far too much sense, and anyway, who really cares?

*(Personal note on why I like them so much: about twenty years ago, my best friend and me collaborated on a quasi-dadaistic conlang that looked and [presumably] sounded uncannily like the dialogues from F&S, only with less diacritics and non-Latin characters. If you think the phonology was weird, you don't want to hear about the semantics...)

Loslote · 04-01-2010, 03:28 PM

*is not getting the jokes and is okay with that*

wilwarin538 · 04-01-2010, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Loslote

*is not getting the jokes and is okay with that*

ditto. I have no clue what language that's supposed to be, haha.

satansaloser2005 · 04-01-2010, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by wilwarin538

ditto. I have no clue what language that's supposed to be, haha.

Thirded, but it's still strangely hilarious.

Pitchwife · 04-01-2010, 04:40 PM

Lottie (and wilwa), have you had a look at this and that?
So we've met them before (and it was high time for another appearance!). Think of them as another variation of the P&A theme, like Phanston and Ailsbry or Sir Phantom and Mr Alan; maybe P&A's doubles from a parallel universe, if you like (hence the unintelligible language*). Just don't expect it to make sense - it doesn't, and that's the fun of it.

*As for the language, I have a hunch it may not be as utterly random as it appears at first glance; at least the obvious loan-word kipling suggests some previous intercultural contact with our universe.

I also have a hunch Hookbill is probably laughing his head off at my attempts to explain it, but that's fine.

Laurinquë · 04-01-2010, 07:13 PM

I was utterly furious with you for five seconds Hookbill . . . all those carefully made predictions centred around Mr Mop. I was so dismayed at their destruction.

By the way, your newspaper prints nothing but the truth. *plugs in blender and lures all the neighbourhood children in for "fun with power tools"* Children are delicious. . . those jelly-based ones too.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 04-03-2010, 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Laurinquë

I was utterly furious with you for five seconds Hookbill . . . all those carefully made predictions centred around Mr Mop. I was so dismayed at their destruction.

By the way, your newspaper prints nothing but the truth. *plugs in blender and lures all the neighbourhood children in for "fun with power tools"* Children are delicious. . . those jelly-based ones too.

And since when have YOU started eating children?! I was the principle child eater here!

Loslote · 04-03-2010, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

And since when have YOU started eating children?! I was the principle child eater here!

Child killing is catching, evidently.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 04-04-2010, 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Loslote

Child killing is catching, evidently.

Oh yes, it's all the rage in Anchorage.

Loslote · 04-04-2010, 12:40 AM

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Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

Oh yes, it's all the rage in Anchorage.

*is alarmed*

Um...forget the fact that I'm currently the youngest active Downer (that we know of). *edges away nervously*

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 04-04-2010, 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Loslote

*is alarmed*

Um...forget the fact that I'm currently the youngest active Downer (that we know of). *edges away nervously*

We already had the chance to eat you. If we would have done it, we would have done it then. Be happy. You're not that young.

Loslote · 04-04-2010, 01:21 AM

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Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

We already had the chance to eat you. If we would have done it, we would have done it then. Be happy. You're not that young.

Oh, good. *is happy - and not eaten*

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 04-04-2010, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Loslote

Oh, good. *is happy*

Don't get too excited, we can make exceptions.

Loslote · 04-04-2010, 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

Don't get too excited, we can make exceptions.

Huh. All the sudden, the fact that we live in the same state is somewhat alarming rather than epically awesome.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 04-04-2010, 01:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Loslote

Huh. All the sudden, the fact that we live in the same state is somewhat alarming rather than epically awesome.

Well, just be glad that I don't know your address. I know the address of some Downers, and in fact, have gone to their own house.

Don't be alarmed. Just your friendly neighbourhood Barrow-Wight. Would you like to eat children with us?

Nerwen · 04-04-2010, 02:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Pitchwife

Think of them as another variation of the P&A theme, like Phanston and Ailsbry or Sir Phantom and Mr Alan; maybe P&A's doubles from a parallel universe, if you like (hence the unintelligible language*). Just don't expect it to make sense - it doesn't, and that's the fun of it.

I love the authorial comments on how hilarious the jokes apparently are:

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Hahahah! Dast Fungotch hunt optomigrast? Nigint! Hasp Shcmurt nus Baloon? ahahah!

Hookbill the Goomba · 04-04-2010, 04:19 PM

Peter and Death continue their journey and hit an interesting point...

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien in these confusing and silly stories I'm weaving around, you can look back though the...

PHANTOM AND ALIEN
COMIC ARCHIVE THING

Come back on Thursday to see how Peter and Death deal with the GIANT OCTOPUS! And yes, that last episode was an April fools and isn't cannon.

Loslote · 04-04-2010, 06:31 PM

I got a bit dizzy going in and out of prison. But I now have a favorite cell - # 47.

Laurinquë · 04-04-2010, 11:19 PM

Good newspaper this week Hookbill! AND THE OCTOPUS! Yess. It had better win the fight.

Hookbill the Goomba · 04-08-2010, 01:10 AM

Thursday's Phalian!

Peter and Death face off against the GIANT OCTOPUS!

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien in these confusing and silly stories I'm weaving around, you can look back though the...

PHANTOM AND ALIEN
COMIC ARCHIVE THING

Come back on Monday to see how Cardinal Mardinal is adjusting to working for the Phantom! Will he get his revenge on Formy? Who knows?

Loslote · 04-08-2010, 01:25 AM

Quote:

"Let us never speak of this again."
"Agreed."

Nothing can go wrong in the sewers!

Laurinquë · 04-08-2010, 09:13 PM

*sniff* I think I'm in love with that octopus. He is so cool . . . Does he have a name other than Giant? Also, the rat is an excellent plot device.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 04-10-2010, 07:13 PM

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Beans.

Hahahahaha! Beans.

That was great.

I don't know why that was so funny, but it was.

Hookbill the Goomba · 04-11-2010, 05:02 PM

News from the deepest pot of FACTS!

Cardinal Mardinal is looking for something...

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien in these confusing and silly stories I'm weaving around, you can look back though the...

PHANTOM AND ALIEN
COMIC ARCHIVE THING

On Thursday we'll see what happens in...

THE MEETING OF THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN!! DUN DUN DUUUUN!!

Hope you're all excited about this. But will Peter and Death disrupt that funeral, do you think? Or Alien disrupt it enough on his own?

Also, if you're wanting a Cardinal Mardinal Desktop theme (sort of) you'll find it here...

Loslote · 04-11-2010, 05:08 PM

Before anyone asks, I had nothing to do with Rune's kidnapping, and the fact that this most *unfortunate* turn of events leaves the way open for Loslote's Better Quality Bacon is purely coincidental. Honest.

Pitchwife · 04-12-2010, 08:01 AM

I guess I'll just have to finally post a real photo now...
On the other hand, being a myth isn't so unattractive either. And that dragon pic is real cute... We'll see.
Anyway,

Hookbill the Goomba · 04-13-2010, 04:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Pitchwife

I guess I'll just have to finally post a real photo now...
On the other hand, being a myth isn't so unattractive either. And that dragon pic is real cute... We'll see.

I like it when the Docwner influences reality, rather than just perverting it.

Having a bit of trouble keeping up with P&A at the moment, so if worst comes to worst, it may go down to once a week again.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 04-14-2010, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

Having a bit of trouble keeping up with P&A at the moment, so if worst comes to worst, it may go down to once a week again.

Onoes! Not P and A! We need it twice a week, Hookbill, we just do.

Hookbill the Goomba · 04-15-2010, 01:29 AM

For now, at least, you're getting the two a week. So... BE HAPPY!

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien in these confusing and silly stories I'm weaving around, you can look back though the...

PHANTOM AND ALIEN
COMIC ARCHIVE THING

Did anyone find this episode familiar?
The adventure is coming to a strange point that will hopefully get more EXCITING! There's lots to look forward to! On Monday we'll see how Formy and the Cardinals deal with the attack of the mad Mardinal!

Legate of Amon Lanc · 04-15-2010, 03:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

Did anyone find this episode familiar?
The adventure is coming to a strange point that will hopefully get more EXCITING! There's lots to look forward to! On Monday we'll see how Formy and the Cardinals deal with the attack of the mad Mardinal!

Definitely familiar! Yay!!!!!!! Looking forward to what's coming...

03-28-2010, 04:05 PM	#2401
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	Time for some news to make you feel ill about life in general The story hits a dark spot now... Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien in these confusing and silly stories I'm weaving around, you can look back though the... PHANTOM AND ALIEN COMIC ARCHIVE THING Gosh! Poor Lommy! What kind of revenge will our Pengish trooper take? Will anyone survive her wroth? Come back on Thursday for THE BIGGEST REVELATION OF THE SERIES! Seriously, it will change your whole view once again. It's that bigger plot twist I've been talking about. __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket...

03-29-2010, 07:25 AM	#2402
Pitchwife Wight of the Old Forest Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Unattended on the railway station, in the litter at the dancehall Posts: 3,329	Thanks for the effort, Lilyq, but I've already been converted to the Soap Church. You know, cleanliness is next to godliness, and all that... __________________ Und aus dem Erebos kamen viele seelen herauf der abgeschiedenen toten.- Homer, Odyssey, Canto XI

04-01-2010, 01:20 AM	#2403
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	It's the episode you've all been waiting for! The final revelation to end all revelations! Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien in these confusing and silly stories I'm weaving around, you can look back though the... PHANTOM AND ALIEN COMIC ARCHIVE THING I hope that has changed everything for you! Now you all know their true identities! It's a strange world and the next fifty episodes are going to be even more incomprehensible! __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket... Last edited by Hookbill the Goomba; 04-01-2010 at 01:24 AM.

04-01-2010, 01:31 AM	#2404
Loslote The Werewolf's Companion Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Moon Posts: 3,021	Whaaaaaat? __________________ I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Double Fenris

04-01-2010, 10:20 AM	#2406
Oddwen Drummer in the Deep Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Next Sunday A.D. Posts: 2,125	Yaaaaaaay! __________________ But all the while I sit and think of times there were before I listen for returning feet and voices at the door

04-01-2010, 01:12 PM	#2408
Eönwë Flame Imperishable Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Right here Posts: 3,928	Moltch. Gráfmüƨt? __________________ Welcome to the Barrow Do-owns Forum / Such a lovely place

04-01-2010, 03:16 PM	#2411
Pitchwife Wight of the Old Forest Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Unattended on the railway station, in the litter at the dancehall Posts: 3,329	Gimifril!!! Great one, Hookbill! I absolutely second Legate's demand for more F&S appearances in the future.* And Lottie, if you're looking for a scientific explanation, my guess would be that FutureAlien's time-travels caused a rift in the continuum that allowed Fungoltch unt Shcmurt to cross over from their parallel universe into P&A's... but I suppose that makes far too much sense, and anyway, who really cares? (Personal note on why I like them so much: about twenty years ago, my best friend and me collaborated on a quasi-dadaistic conlang that looked and [presumably] sounded uncannily like the dialogues from F&S, only with less diacritics and non-Latin characters. If you think the phonology was weird, you don't want to hear about the semantics...) __________________ Und aus dem Erebos kamen viele seelen herauf der abgeschiedenen toten.- Homer, Odyssey, Canto XI*

04-01-2010, 03:28 PM	#2412
Loslote The Werewolf's Companion Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Moon Posts: 3,021	is not getting the jokes and is okay with that __________________ I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Double Fenris

04-01-2010, 04:40 PM	#2415
Pitchwife Wight of the Old Forest Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Unattended on the railway station, in the litter at the dancehall Posts: 3,329	Lottie (and wilwa), have you had a look at this and that? So we've met them before (and it was high time for another appearance!). Think of them as another variation of the P&A theme, like Phanston and Ailsbry or Sir Phantom and Mr Alan; maybe P&A's doubles from a parallel universe, if you like (hence the unintelligible language). Just don't expect it to make sense - it doesn't, and that's the fun of it. As for the language, I have a hunch it may not be as utterly random as it appears at first glance; at least the obvious loan-word kipling suggests some previous intercultural contact with our universe. I also have a hunch Hookbill is probably laughing his head off at my attempts to explain it, but that's fine. __________________ Und aus dem Erebos kamen viele seelen herauf der abgeschiedenen toten.- Homer, Odyssey, Canto XI

04-01-2010, 07:13 PM	#2416
Laurinquë Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 347	ਅਡਯਜᐏᓁضᠠ ℋↂѫՊฏ I was utterly furious with you for five seconds Hookbill . . . all those carefully made predictions centred around Mr Mop. I was so dismayed at their destruction. By the way, your newspaper prints nothing but the truth. plugs in blender and lures all the neighbourhood children in for "fun with power tools" Children are delicious. . . those jelly-based ones too.

04-04-2010, 04:19 PM	#2427
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	Peter and Death continue their journey and hit an interesting point... Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien in these confusing and silly stories I'm weaving around, you can look back though the... PHANTOM AND ALIEN COMIC ARCHIVE THING Come back on Thursday to see how Peter and Death deal with the GIANT OCTOPUS! And yes, that last episode was an April fools and isn't cannon. __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket...

04-04-2010, 06:31 PM	#2428
Loslote The Werewolf's Companion Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Moon Posts: 3,021	I got a bit dizzy going in and out of prison. But I now have a favorite cell - # 47. __________________ I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Double Fenris

04-04-2010, 11:19 PM	#2429
Laurinquë Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 347	Good newspaper this week Hookbill! AND THE OCTOPUS! Yess. It had better win the fight.

04-08-2010, 01:10 AM	#2430
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	Thursday's Phalian! Peter and Death face off against the GIANT OCTOPUS! Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien in these confusing and silly stories I'm weaving around, you can look back though the... PHANTOM AND ALIEN COMIC ARCHIVE THING Come back on Monday to see how Cardinal Mardinal is adjusting to working for the Phantom! Will he get his revenge on Formy? Who knows? __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket... Last edited by Hookbill the Goomba; 11-19-2011 at 04:15 PM.

04-08-2010, 09:13 PM	#2432
Laurinquë Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 347	sniff I think I'm in love with that octopus. He is so cool . . . Does he have a name other than Giant? Also, the rat is an excellent plot device.

04-11-2010, 05:02 PM	#2434
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	News from the deepest pot of FACTS! Cardinal Mardinal is looking for something... Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien in these confusing and silly stories I'm weaving around, you can look back though the... PHANTOM AND ALIEN COMIC ARCHIVE THING On Thursday we'll see what happens in... THE MEETING OF THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN!! DUN DUN DUUUUN!! Hope you're all excited about this. But will Peter and Death disrupt that funeral, do you think? Or Alien disrupt it enough on his own? Also, if you're wanting a Cardinal Mardinal Desktop theme (sort of) you'll find it here... __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket... Last edited by Hookbill the Goomba; 04-11-2010 at 05:06 PM.

04-11-2010, 05:08 PM	#2435
Loslote The Werewolf's Companion Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Moon Posts: 3,021	Before anyone asks, I had nothing to do with Rune's kidnapping, and the fact that this most unfortunate turn of events leaves the way open for Loslote's Better Quality Bacon is purely coincidental. Honest. __________________ I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Double Fenris

04-12-2010, 08:01 AM	#2436
Pitchwife Wight of the Old Forest Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Unattended on the railway station, in the litter at the dancehall Posts: 3,329	I guess I'll just have to finally post a real photo now... On the other hand, being a myth isn't so unattractive either. And that dragon pic is real cute... We'll see. Anyway, __________________ Und aus dem Erebos kamen viele seelen herauf der abgeschiedenen toten.- Homer, Odyssey, Canto XI

04-15-2010, 01:29 AM	#2439
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	For now, at least, you're getting the two a week. So... BE HAPPY! Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien in these confusing and silly stories I'm weaving around, you can look back though the... PHANTOM AND ALIEN COMIC ARCHIVE THING Did anyone find this episode familiar? The adventure is coming to a strange point that will hopefully get more EXCITING! There's lots to look forward to! On Monday we'll see how Formy and the Cardinals deal with the attack of the mad Mardinal! __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket...