"Stop it, stop it!!! Why is no-one campaigning on the real issues during this campaign?" asked Sister Malodora at the Corrective Party campaign launch, held at a small telephone box near Hataitai this morning.

"New Zealand needs discipline- vote for the Correctives, New Zealand's corporal punishment party!!! Save the unconcieved, millions of whom die by men's filthy habits of self-abuse each day!!! Stake the undead, use garlic bread on the Association of Repulsive Fangbearers!!! Uphold the Antarctic Treaty, penguin sovereignty for Antarctica!!!"

Tripitaka Adelie-Penguin went "Queeg arqle squaaaw sqau!!!" I think there's something in that for all of us, don't you?

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