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Scary Go Round 20071016 The Boy: Esther, wait! There'll be security dogs! Or security men! / [[The Boy bangs his head against a fencepost.]] / <> / The Boy: Why can't I have a normal girlfriend who likes... I don't know... candles? / [[Esther yanks him through the fence.]] / The Boy: AAAAAH! / [[Esther clings to him from behind.]] / Esther: Shape up! Be a man! / Esther: If we get arrested, I'l... I'll dye my hair blonde and dress in gingham every day for the rest of my life. / Esther: I'll have to let my repressed frustration out as serial murders, of course. That's a given.
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Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Esther: Did you know my grandfather built this place on a gypsy burial site? / The Boy: What? Esther, is it even safe for you to be here? / Esther: It's not like the ghosts know I'm related to him. They don't have a DNA lab! / Esther: If they somehow know that, they don't know where I live! / The Boy: The phone book! / Esther: One: ghosts don't have fingers. / Esther: Two: Ancient spirits probably have no concept of telephony. / Esther: Three: If they knew where 8 Sharrow Grove was, how would they get there? / Esther: The bus? / The Boy: I guess there's no spectral tradition of mobile haunting. / The Boy: Just imagine! Ambulances, swimming in ectoplasm.
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Scary Go Round 20071017 Esther: Did you know my grandfather built this place on a gypsy burial site? / The Boy: What? Esther, is it even safe for you to be here? / Esther: It's not like the ghosts know I'm related to him. They don't have a DNA lab! / [[Ghosts are swirling around them, unseen.]] / Esther: If they somehow know that, they don't know where I live! / The Boy: The phone book! / Esther: One: ghosts don't have fingers. Two: ancient spirits probably have no concept of telephony. / [[Hordes of ghosts are now watching them intently.]] / Esther: Three: if they knew where 8 Sharrow Grove was, how would they get there? The bus? / The Boy: I guess there's no spectral tradition of mobile haunting. Just imagine! Ambulances, swimming in ectoplasm.
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Scary Go Round 20071018 [[Esther and The Boy exit the construction site.]] / Esther: I can't believe there were no ghosts. / The Boy: I can't believe we weren't set upon by attack dogs and put in jail! / Esther: Maybe the ghosts got bored and dispersed. / The Boy: They might just have been hiding, like woodlice under a rock. What would you have done if you'd found one, anyway? / [[In the sky, multiple ghosts slowly merge into one enormous ghost.]] / Esther: Probably tried to wear it as a cape, or use it as a tablecloth.
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Scary Go Round 20071018 [[Esther and The Boy exit the construction site.]] / Esther: I can't believe there were no ghosts. / The Boy: I can't believe we weren't set upon by attack dogs and put in jail! / Esther: Maybe the ghosts got bored and dispersed. / The Boy: They might just have been hiding, like woodlice under a rock. What would you have done if you'd found one, anyway? / [[In the sky, multiple ghosts slowly merge into one enormous ghost.]] / Esther: Probably tried to wear it as a cape, or use it as a tablecloth.
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Scary Go Round 20071019 Comrade Bat: CHIP CHIP! SKREE SKREE! / [[Shelley, in an elaborate dress, is helping Ryan with a black-and-white harlequin costume.]] / Ryan: Thanks Shelley, that looks plenty nice now. / Shelley: It needed a woman's touch! / Shelley: Do you need a lift to the party? / Ryan: Naw, I'd better take Comrade Bat out. He's been goin' crazy all night. / [[Shelley winks.]] / Shelley: It's Halloween excitement! Or rabies. / Ryan: He just needs to burn off some spare juice by bitin' a stoat in the skull or somethin'. / Shelley: Oh dear! Oh no! Oh dear! Stoat skull! No! / Ryan: Er, or, um, sometimes he does some flower arrangin' to get well.
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Scary Go Round 20071019 Comrade Bat: CHIP CHIP! SKREE SKREE! / [[Shelley, in an elaborate dress, is helping Ryan with a black-and-white harlequin costume.]] / Ryan: Thanks Shelley, that looks plenty nice now. / Shelley: It needed a woman's touch! / Shelley: Do you need a lift to the party? / Ryan: Naw, I'd better take Comrade Bat out. He's been goin' crazy all night. / [[Shelley winks.]] / Shelley: It's Halloween excitement! Or rabies. / Ryan: He just needs to burn off some spare juice by bitin' a stoat in the skull or somethin'. / Shelley: Oh dear! Oh no! Oh dear! Stoat skull! No! / Ryan: Er, or, um, sometimes he does some flower arrangin' to get well.
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Scary Go Round 20071022 [[Esther and The Boy, in unclear states of undress, in Esther's bed.]] / Esther: Get out of my bed, The Boy! / The Boy: I'm reading! / The Boy: Just because my mum and dad are away, it doesn't mean you can be a dirty dog around my home. / [[We see The Boy's comic, which is NEWS TEAM. It shows a bald, burly man attacking someone (not seen) and shouting "What's the frequency... KENNETH?"]] / [[Esther is now holding the comic, as seen from the black-painted fingernail.]] / Esther: In the 80's you could make a comic out of anything! / [[Esther is now distracted and disrobed, under the covers.]] / Esther: I like the Sales Leadership Club. "Prizes... Or Cash!" It's mystifying! / [[A page advertising such a club. "Join today! Start earning big prizes or cash right away. We'll send you a Free Starter Pack with all the details of how to make easy money from Family, Friends and Neighbors. Begin earning prizes and cash immediately. Also included is your Free Prize Catalog featuring hundreds of great toys, games and hobbies from Hasbro, GE, Tasco, Beff, WENK, International Pesticides of Honduras, Matsushiro, Percy, and Halliburton Activi-Toys. Almost everyone is a potential customer and you'll find it easy to earn prizes or a nickel for every sale back to Sales Leadership Club. Nothing to Pay. Nothing to Return - Nothing to lose. Everything to Gain."]] / [[The visible prizes / products: GE Stereo Geadset Cassette Player; Hot Stocks; Very Sharp Knife; Ansco JSMM Camera Outfit; Tasco Microscope Kit; Home DDT Set; Anti-Ruskie Dis; Gulag; Iran-Contra Action Payset.]] / The Boy: I think the idea was to harvest your friends' organs during sleep-overs and exchange them for trinkets. / Esther: Sigh. It was a more innocent time.
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Scary Go Round 20071023 [[The Boy and Esther are putting on costumes.]] / The Boy: We're going to be late for Milford's "Ultimate Halloween Party". / Esther: What makes it "Ultimate"? / The Boy: It's the last one he'll ever have. / Esther: Because someone'll be sick in the grand piano? / [[Esther now has a blonde wig and cheerleader outfit. The Boy is in a Jason Vorhees hockey mask and orange jumpsuit.]] / The Boy: Well, he says "for intense psychological reasons." / Esther: We'll all be mentally scarred... by a piano full of sick. / <> / Esther: That'll be the taxi. / [[Ryan races in in his harlequin costume, followed by Comrade Bat.]] / Ryan: Esther, it's coming, it's coming! / Esther: What? What? / The Boy: Calm down. He's probably just read an article on Wikipedia about gout.
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Scary Go Round 20071024 [[The Boy adopts a haughty poise toward Ryan.]] / <> / Ryan: Less lip, Jimmy Olsen. Somethin' wicked this way comes. / Esther: What? / Ryan: Comrade Bat's been actin' crazy for days. He tore off down the street towards your house. / Ryan: Eventually we caught up a giant glowin' cube movin' in this direction. / [[They look out the window.]] / Esther: Great Caesar's Ghost! I can see it! / The Boy: It's like the ghost mothership! / Ryan: Have you done anythin' to infuriate the dead? It could be somethin' as simple as espousin' a love of Egon Spengler near a crypt.
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Scary Go Round 20071025 [[Esther takes out the blue contact lenses she was wearing.]] / Esther: Ryan, my family may be responsible for spoiling a few... graves. And yesterday we kind of fooled around... near the graves. / The Boy: Capering... laughing... / Ryan: Aw hell. A Molotov cocktail of desecration and hi-jinks. / Ryan: I reckon that's the biggest recorded spectre since Old Jumbly in 1918. / The Boy: Old Jumbly? / Esther: The ghost of the Elephant Man... riding a ghost elephant. / Esther (voiceover): Widely thought to be responsible for scaring King George off his horse. / [[Old Jumbly behind King George. Ghostly words: "JUSTICE"]]
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Scary Go Round 20071026 [[Ryan and The Boy are setting up some unspecified equipment outside, up a tree.]] / The Boy: I know what you're up to, Ryan. I know you've got your dirty eye on Esther. / Ryan: Dang man. Dang. That ain't the case! / Ryan: I got respect for another man's arrangements. But you take that little sister for granted. / The Boy: I don't! / Ryan: Yeah you do. She thinks you're responsible for 98% of rainbows. But you don't take her serious. You make fun of her night ways. / Ryan: Some of us got an abiding love for a gal that we can never speak of. Some of us two gals at once - God fearin' dames! Choosin' would be like sayin' which would be the best leg to feed to a crocodile.
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Scary Go Round 20071029 [[A massive, cubical ghost is flying overhead.]] / Ghost: REVENGE / Esther: Are you two done? / Esther: The ghost is right overhead. / Ryan: Now listen up, you two. / [[Ryan puts his arms around their shoulders.]] / Ryan: In Ghostbustin' terms, we just found out about Vigo, the master of evil. Remember that if he tries to battle my boys, that ain't legal. / Esther: Ryan, you're babbling incomprehensibly. / Ryan: This situation has a lot of variables, Esther. / Ryan: I don't want to be the one who has to tell your mum why your hair turned white... and why you're shakin' so hard that your cornflakes won't stay on the spoon.
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Scary Go Round 20071030 Esther: What want ye on De Groot land? / [[Ghost spells out letters in its mouth.]] / Ghost: REVENGE / Esther: Revenge? Revenge? Ye want "REVENGE?" / [[Esther seems to grow to be larger than the massive ghost.]] / Esther: I'll boil ye down for soup, little ghost! I'll smear ye on my cheese on toast! I'll carve ye into an occasional table! Then give ye to my Aunty Mabel! I'll shoot ye with a bullet o' silver... then I'll uh... um... / Ghost: FLIPPING NORA
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Scary Go Round 20071031 [[Esther and the ghost are eye to eye.]] / Esther: Try to stare me out, would ye? Dese eyes were bleached white starin' down the devil he'self! / [[The ghost starts to disintegrate.]] / <> / [[Esther laughs at the fleeing tiny spectres.]] / [[Esther is actually in the house. The Boy and Ryan are at a laptop, apparently projecting her image outside.]] / The Boy: I can't believe ghosts would fall for this. / Ryan: Ghosts got to be super superstitious! Tell 'em there's a flyin' top hat full of yogurt comin' to get them... you'll get the benefit of the doubt. / Esther: MUAH HAH NYUK NYUK
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Scary Go Round 20071101 Ryan: That was quite a performance, Esther! What accent was that? Pakistani? / The Boy: Come on, it was Welsh. / Esther: Irish, it was Irish. / Ryan: Maybe an Irish colony where the mother tongue ain't been heard in some time. / Esther: I noticed the ghosts didn't seem to mind! They seemed to find me extremely Irish! / [[Esther steps up on a windowsill to shout out.]] / Esther: Hay! Ghosts! Come back! Couple of lads here calling you "wispy and mist-like!" What's that? "Lace-trimmed floating pillow cases"? I disagree! / [[The Boy has pulled Esther back down bodily. She is laughing.]] / The Boy: What do you think happened to all the ghosts, Ryan? / Ryan: Probably reduced to hauntin' individual pats of butter and car tyres.
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Scary Go Round 20071102 Ryan: Esther, that whole ghost hologram technique was pretty unusual. To come out of the mind of a young lady, I mean. / Esther: It's the plot of this comic! Eighties fantasy is Oughties reality! / [[Holds up comic: NEWS TEAM]] / Ryan: Woah! "News Team" 25? This was a hot issue! / [[In the comic.]] / Robot: Mur-Dok is here, Mr Turner! / Turner: Activate Cable Network Grid I. / [[A flying entity closely resembling MODOK.]] / Caption: Ted Turner knows Mur-Dok is powerful, and will stop at nothing. Cosmic rays and science have transformed him! / Caption: But Turner also knows what Mur-Dok fears most... / [[Robot (or image thereof) much bigger than Mur-Dok with human head and missile arms. Emblazoned on chest: "World Series Cricket"]] / Caption: ...a giant robot Kerry Packer. / Mur-Dok: N-n-n-no!
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Scary Go Round 20071106 [[Brainstorming session at Conde Nast Traveller. Brainstorming session underway.]] / Employee: We need something for the December issue that says "Christmas." / Monique: The spirit of giving, but international and luxurious. / [[On brainstorming sheet: "The Sex Issue" (crossed out); "Biarritz (again?)"; Paul Auster in Austria - YES!!"]] / [[Two editors steeped in decadence. One is drinking from wine out of a goblet, the other is messily eating corn-on-the-cob with a pig's head in front of him.]] / Editor 1: Christmas Island. Shelby Winner. She wrote a killer piece for Jet Set. Bought a pair of shoes made entirely from blood diamonds. / Editor 2: Oh, I saw that. Killer. / [[The aforementioned article. Text: "CONGO - Shelby Winner on the allure of Africa's blood diamonds - BLOODY FANTASTIC - How many times have you just had to have a pair of shoes that were to die for? I know. Me too. But how many pairs of shoes... I didn't think so! This isn't the time to get all PC and start wailing and tearing your clothes. After all, that's a bespoke suit! Think of the exquisite suffering involved just so you can bite into... a foie gras brioche... My contact was Georges Chretien. Georges was probably in his forties but looked about seventy. He explained that someone would try to kill him three or four times a day. His wife and children had recently been delivered to his work... into dice-sized..."]] / Editor 2: Killer.
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Scary Go Round 20071107 [[Conde Nast office.]] / <> / Rochelle: Shirley Winger: Oh, he must mean one of these two. / [[Open book. "Winner, Shelby. Los Angeles, CA, USA. Morally ambiguous star writer. Awards: Writer's Writer 2004, 2006. Rolling Stone, New York Review of Books, Blender. Winters, Shelley. Tackleford, W. Yorks., UK. Specialist in mysterious local stories and preserves. Cheap! Tackleford Cormorant, City Limit, Bunty. Wintour, Anna. New York, NY, USA. Vogue editor. Frequent target for paint throwing bunny lovers."]] / Rochelle: Eeny, meeny, miney, mo.
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Scary Go Round : November 15, 2007 [[Desmond and Shelley accompany Moon as she leaves Costa Coffee]] / Desmond: Did Moon ever tell you how she got drawn into her previous life of crime? She was into the sales leadership club for 5000 bones and a My Little Pony playset. / Moon: It was just so thrillin'ly pink! / Shelley: Neither a borrower not a lender be! / Moon: Didn't you claim on your life insurance three times? / Shelley: I remain thrifty. / Moon: You didn't buy that watch in Woolworth's, honey. / [[Shelley presses a button on her watch. A face on the watch smiles]] / Shelley's watch: Matsushiro happy time say, it fluffy chick past kitten! / Shelley's watch: I am happy to tell the time! / Shelley's watch: Your estimated time of death is December 4, 2061! / Shelley: So catchy!
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Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Gibbous Moon and Shelley Winters are in the Arrivals terminal at the airport]] / Moon: Shelley, you look terrible. / Shelley: My small body is too frail for Southern Hemisphere jetlag. / Shelley: I am on the way out! / Shelley: Poke me in the eye so I can feel alive one more time! / Moon: No! / Shelley: Amy pokes me in the eye when I ask! / Shelley: You're a terrible sidekick! OW! / SFX: SQUIT! / Moon: You're the sidekick! OW! / Shelley: Take that back! / SFX: POIK! / [[Shelley and Moon are now weeping, as Ernest Cromerty and Desmond Fish-Man look on]] / Shelley: BOO HOO HOO / Moon: BLOO HOO HOO HOOO / Ernest: This is... a fragile situation. / Desmond: Maybe it can be solved... with snakes!
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Scary Go Round 20071123 Editor: This is a catastrophe! Conde Nast is in a freefall of decadent spending and we need investment from the Matsushiro Corporation. If those gentlemen go home and tell the board we're rank amateurs... / Editor: ...We'll all be making a living crushing ice for slushies... with our fists! / Tremaine:: Ow! / Shelby: Listen here, boys. Send me out to Christmas Island. I'll smash this Winters chick and bring it home on budget. / Editor and Tremaine: S-smash her? / [[Shelby pretends to listen to the other room.]] / Shelby: What's that, Mr Matsushiro? You're going to invest in hydrogen cells instead? Yeah, I hear that you can actually make money that way!
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Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Ernest, Moon, Desmond and Shelley stand on a dock with Cut-Throat Jim]] / Ernest: ARR, THE LADY ELAINE! / Cut-Throat Jim: THAT'LL BE E4000 FOR CARRIAGE, CROMERTY, AS DISCUSSED. / [[Cut-Throat Shelley holds up credit card]] / Shelley: DO YOU TAKE THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL CREDIT CARD? / [[Cut-Throat Jim takes Shelley by the waist.]] / Cut-Throat Jim: LITTLE LADY, LET ME TELL YE A STORY. A FIERCE AND AWFUL CRITTER ROAMS THE DEEP. / [[Cut-Throat Jim imagines a evil green businessman swimming under water named Credit Card Handlin O'Phee.]] / Cut-Throat Jim: THE SCOURGE OF HONEST SAILORS AND BLAGGARDS ALIKE. HE'LL SKIN Y'ALIVE FOR HIS CORN... / Ribbon: CREDIT CARD HANDLIN O'PHEE / Credit Card Handlin O'Phee: 30P PER TRANSACTION PLUS 2.1%
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