Heh. I know a woman who used to work in Hamamatsu.
A Hamamatsu flea was exposed to gamma radiation and grew to monstrous proportions in the 1952 Japanese creature feature The Flea That Was Very Large and Troublesome to the Onigawa Prefecture. It was later released in the U.S., badly dubbed and with a cameo by Harry Belafonte and Ava Gardner, as Giant Death Flea!
I saw Giant Death Flea when they opened for Led Zeppelin in 1973. The audience was unappreciative, and kept chanting “Zep!” through their entire set.
ZepSet, coincidentally or not, was also the name of the acrylic box maker who made the box I was imprisoned in.
ZepSet originally produced his acrylic boxes to house the brains of people awaiting transplantation into new-borns’ bodies. Each box was wired for sound and vocalization, and had a handle on top so the brains could be taken to the movies.
[inspired by Friends Come in Boxes, one of my favorite science fiction novels]
Spiro Agnew was a ground-floor investor in ZepSetCo, but lost everything in the great Wall Street crash of July 1977. He never forgave his broker, Sid “Honest Joe” Phartuccio.
ZepSet was the brainchild of the evil mad scientist Dr. Moondrake Grabowitz, known to his associates as Chuckles, because he could never quite get the hang of the mandatory maniacal laugh.
Dr. Moondrake Grabowitz took an Evil Genius Maniacal Laughing 101 course at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople in July 1977, but failed the course.
Professor Bartles Evilbeard has been teaching the Evil Genius Maniacal Laughing 101 course at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople since the mid 70s. Whenever asked for his credentials for teaching such a course he just laughs and laughs and laughs.
The Doomsday Hyena (H. Apocalypta), recently discovered in sub-Saharan Africa, has a “laugh” that has been documented as “maniacal.” Researchers have described it as sounding like a “cross between Colin Clive and Larry Drake in that awful movie.”
Doomsday Hyenas were nearly hunted to extinction by the Rapture Cheetahs – a rare, gigantic feline breed indigenous to the Seychelles islands, which were accidentally introduced to the main African continent during an 18th century voyage by Captain Horatio James Phartuccio.
There used to be over 144,000 Rapture Cheetahs on the Seychelles islands, but one day all but two suddenly ascended to the skies, soaring above the clouds and beyond. The two remaining cheetahs, an unrelated male and female who had been cheating on their mates, were captured and taken to Africa.
Seychelles is actually pronounced so as to rhyme with broccoli. It’s a portmanteau work, combining the Turkish word for elephant, the French word for parsnips and a Tagalog phrase meaning “You have lost your luggage.”
Seychelles Phartuccio has compiled a dictionary of 144,000 portmanteau words.
Portmanteau is a rare wine grown from Touriga Phartuccio grapes steeped in the fat of the Seychelles manta ray and delicately crushed by the toes of Queen Vichyswaz of Lithuania.
The mystical town of Brigadoon was recently moved to Lithuania without the knowledge or consent of its inhabitants. Anthropologists (most carrying sidearms) are standing by to gauge the reaction of the citizens when they next appear.
The musical Brigadoon is actually a true story of Frederick Lowe and Alan Jay Lerner’s visit to the mythical town. They got there via a magic mirror that Lowe found hanging in the back of his wardrobe.
Movie “musicals” are actually pilfered documentaries from the alternate dimension where people really do stop and break into song for no reason while “music” follows them around for accompaniment. Hollywood discovered this “easy money” just after the dawn of movie sound recording and pilfered the films. You don’t see too many “musicals” any more because the alternate dimension tumbled to it and threatened Earth with annihilation if Hollywood didn’t knock it off.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is a being from this alternate dimension, where humans mated with chipmunks.
Alvin the Chipmunk slipped through a hole between this alternate dimension and earth, and every government worldwide has since been trying to send him back. To date over $142 billion has been spent in vain.
Vain, Colorado is the town with the highest per capita growth of any town in the civilized world. It is home to the trans-dimensional portal which is incredibly expensive to maintain and run, which explains all of the money spent there.