Bigger Boys
I thought it was spam at first… when a strange message containing all my correct details arrived in my Junk folder a day or so ago, I wrote it off as coincidence, just clever marketing or something. The subject line read ‘Cease and Desist’, and there was an attachment. I’m no goat, I know not to open attachments in my Junk folder so I deleted it.
I got another one this morning, this time the subject line included the word ‘litigation’ in bold type, so I scanned the attachment and opened it, ready to pull the plug if anything nasty happened. It did, but not in the way I was expecting.
Turns out this email is the real deal! We seem to have pissed off some Blogging Commission, a bunch I’d never heard of before. When I say ‘We’, of course I mean ‘Maxi’ because the whole idea was his – I just went with it out of boredom. I’m not sure what to do now, other than write a flaming return email.
Anybody out there got any experience with so called ‘Blogging Commissioners’? Is this for real?
If you’re curious, this is the email I returned:
Hi Cuthbert,
Look, I don’t know if you’re a bonafide pencil-pusher or just somebody having a laugh, either way I don’t care. Sending me bogus letters on behalf of some made-up company is a huge waste of time based on the premise that blogs are, by their nature, free-for-all. I can publish whatever I damn well like.
As it turns out, I have no intentions on publishing further material relating to this ‘Blog War’… frankly I would rather burn out my entire quotient of sebaceous glands with the sulphured excrement of a burned match. I’m sick of it. Rest assured, the idea for this whole cockamamie idea falls solely at the feet of Maxi Cane and his blogspot, and was about as scary and as realistic as Beaut.ie’s bargain bin.
I won’t be taking down any posts or removing any images. Your letter doesn’t scare me, for I have a Thesaurus too and can read between the lines.
You haven’t a leg to stand on, mate.
Sincerely
K8 the Gr8
Manumission succesful
Your Queen has returned!!!
Ye gads what an adventure. It all began with the kind donation and smuggling of beard trimmings from Grandad and Rick O’Shea. The combined volume made enough rope to lower me to the ground from a fourth-storey window!!! Well, almost to the ground anyway. I found myself dangling six feet above ground, only to find Capt. Mick McFool was below, ready to catch me – my knight in shining lipstick! His clever ploy of dressing in drag let him seamlessly wander through the rancid streets of Maxiland, and to be honest, I think he enjoyed the liberation that fishnets bring (you should see his high-kicks!)… it brought out a crazy side in him that not all of us are lucky enough to see in our short lives… I felt privileged.
We legged it through the borders, ducking and detonating as we went until the madness ebbed away behind us through the smoke. We found a quiet country path…

… and McFool explained his mental adventures, describing the plan that was to come. He stopped suddenly and turned around. He paled.
“What’s wrong?”
“Wood doesn’t go ‘clink’ when you stand on it, does it?” I asked. McFool slowly shook his head and raised his eyebrows into a shrug. “I think I’m standing on a land-mine…”
“Jump!” He shouted in a gleeful fit of madness.
“No.”
“Right!” He began to charge…
“STOP!!!!!”
McFool ran straight past me, into the wilderness beyond, shouting about getting a ‘big rock or somethin”, when it happened.
My computer froze. I was stuck, immobile, unable to do anything but the three finger salute. My computer was euthanized and I was obliterated from the outskirts of Maxiland instantly, but to my surprise it was not the end for K8 the Gr8!!! I was re-born in a pile of cookies, a new creation, a new Queen of K8opia…

K8 the Ir8!!!
I am now the combined anger on the entire world wide web for cuntries like Maxi Cane’s. It is channeled through the links… the maledictions and nastiness shall ooze through his Pings and his Feeds and my vengeance shall be felt!!!
To my most graciously patient comrades;
It’s time to stop pussy-footin’ around here and unleash the power of your virtual honour!
The kidnapping of K8

The defenstration of Maxi Cane
There is much rejoicing in K8opia!

In the guise of an innocent peace-offering, we managed to smuggle several brave soldiers into Maxiland, hidden in a giant ‘M’. Based on the knowledge that none of the residents of Maxiland ever went to school, he would be unprepared for this tactic, and guess what? We were right!!!
Maxi has been captured, and his various parts will soon be on display in our gift-shop.
Medals of valour will soon be presented to our brave officers…
Grandad; Army Chief of Staff, for a perfect infiltration plan.
JackMcMad; For his epic rage against the SUCK.
Jefferson; For his undying loyalty against the endless siege of abuse
Kirk M; Because every war needs a puppy.
Roy, English Mum and Brian; For excellence in bombing.
Tune in for the playful torturing of Maxiland’s remaining lapdogs!!!
Operation Shenanegan
I recently deployed some expertly trained men to infiltrate Camp Maxi and catch them at their strange antics.
Mission successful.
Retaliation
I worried for my name for a moment this weekend in the knowledge that I would be forced to abandon my loyal men and women followers, but only for a moment. The unavoidable trip to the donkey santuary left their mission wide open without my guidance, but as my loyal submarine commander told me upon my return;
“Often in war, lines of communication become cut off. That’s where you have to trust your cells of fighters to carry on without you. The first sign of a fine leader is that your people can carry on when you’re not there. All Hail K8 the Gr8!”
Okay, so I added that last bit but the surprise party went down a treat and conveyed the same message. Such nice people. In fact, it would seem that their dedication has inflamed them into epic tasks. The uniform is fresh from production seven months ahead of schedule! To see their faces… their triumph as they handed me the last uniform with plastered fingers and exclaimed: “We just love the smell of Napalm in Blogger.” I shed a tear.

The blog bombings were inspirational.
These brave soldiers defended me to the hilt in my absence against an unholy torrent of abuse and I am so proud to be their leader. They are true K8opian heroes.
What a mess my good name has become!!!
Brutal allegations of a grievious nature have been pinned upon me on the internet and I would hereby most defiantly like to tell you that these are all false. To think that I would sell cigarettes to small children?!? I merely teach them how to roll their own, thus cutting down on pocket money expenses and eliminating arsenic poisoning. If they’re going to smoke, they might as well do it properly.
It is a sad fact that ‘He who must not be mentioned’… *sigh* link… has based his entire defense on lies. Such cheap tricks, such shameful tactics.

This is what I look like. All the time, even when I’ve just squshed an increadibly large spider barefoot in the dark by mistake on a stumbling visit to the loo.
All I can offer to you, my loyal people, is the truth. We all know that the truth is far uglier thing than fiction, as you will soon find out. Spies have been deployed all over the capital city of Maxiland in an effort to sample the taste of their regime, and they return feeling very ill indeed and carrying video tape footage that suprisingly didn’t burn to a crisp the very moment it was recorded.
The great leader of Maxiland is a wanker.
I do not use the word in its derogatory sense, it is simply pure fact. I offer to you some damning evidence as recorded by my faithful troops;
“I’ve wanked pretty much everywhere. If I’ve been to a place more than twice, chances are I’ve blown my beans in the surroundings … Every room of every house I’ve ever lived in, or visited. Every room of every place I’ve ever been employed in, or visited. A car. A bus. A phone box.”
“I remember a time I was walking past Ann Summers on O’Connell Street and there was an old dude outside the front door, and God love him he was trying to catch a glimpse of some girl changing into underwear or the salesgirl running through a demo of a new dildo and he had his hands hidden under his over coat. I would have judged, maybe even stopped him but I was on my way to Brown Thomas to whack off all over the Manolo Blahnik displays.”
Won’t somebody please think of the children?
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Overheard at a bus-stop;
“And I left the shop, went and calmed myself down with a nice shot of crack.”
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One brave soldier even had the nerve to engage this so-called ‘leader’ at the bookies and recorded the following perplexing information;
“Yeah, “I guess I turned to drugs and murder after I saw my drunken father mowed down by a devilishly handsome Ford Fiesta driver when I turned 5. He turned to look at me, and said “Happy birthday, sweetheart” and then turned to face his death.”"
A man with such weighty responsiblities who has learned his leadership skills in prison is not a pretty sight. I fear for his people, I imagine an evolved landscape of Orks, poor pure elvenfolk who got caught up in the madness and are now forever damned. I urge those people to step back, to have a proper look at this leader of theirs… a man who hates bank holidays, who enjoys having his privates gnawed on by zombified hamsters, who doesn’t actually have such an innate fear of tampax!
“In all the commotion I forgot my tissues, but as it turns out “feminine products” are much more absorbent for a runny nose than even the strongest tissue, and the smooth applicator does make a difference.”
My undercover interviewer almost passed out when this information was recorded, this golden piece of damning evidence. She is now away in the Bahamas for some well earned R&R, but not before she found out that the Queen of Maxiland - the position I so politely requested in the days before this cruel war began – is an avid fan of Boyzone. Boyzone. While Keith Duffy is already in my army for his sensual comedic skills, I cannot condone the music. He knows that. We’re cool.
Would you really fancy ‘Love me for a reason’ playing in the cold interior of an army tank as you advance into battle? Would it motivate you into killing yourself or the enemy? I think you know the answer.
Do not be fooled by this leader’s big puppyblog eyes. He is no innocent, I fear this past weekend’s infiltration is but the tip of the iceberg, that Maxiland is a scurrilous place and should be gravely avoided.
This is a rare photograph of the elusive character taken at a so-called ‘Peace’ rally yesterday (on the right, beside Baino’s oranges:

I think it fair to say that this man has issues.
Medical News: Blog author responsible for mental health decline
Maxi Cane, also know as Maxicane.blogspot.com, is a dangerous website, according to recent clinical findings. It is involuntarily read by nonbloggers, lingers in the brain hours after web browsers have been shut down and can cause or exacerbate a wide range of adverse health effects, including shock, sexually transmitted diseases, and a severe lowering of I.Q.

Secondhand reading has been classified by the Mental Unified Protection Prevention Ethics Treaty (MUPPET) as a known cause of ignorance in humans.
Secondhand blog exposure causes panic and premature brain atrophy in children and adults who do not read Maxi Cane’s blog. The blog contains subliminal messages, including pornography, defamation, bad taste, photographs of Madonna and nasty suggestions as to what you can do with ‘yer ma’.
Secondhand reading causes approximately 3,400 cases of pink-eye and 22,700-69,600 losses of higher brain function in adult nonreaders in the world each year.
Nonreaders exposed to Maxi Cane’s blog at work are at increased risk for adverse health effects. Levels of secondhand cynicism in restaurants and bars were found to be 2 to 5 times higher than in residences with blog readers and 2 to 6 times higher than in office workplaces.
Since 2007, 70 percent of the world’s workforce worked under a Maxi-free policy, ranging from 83.9 percent in Ireland to 48.7 percent in the United States. Workplace productivity was increased and absenteeism was decreased among former readers compared with current readers.
Secondhand reading of Maxi’s blog may also cause buildup of bullshit in the frontal cortex of the brain, resulting in 790,000 physician office visits per year. Secondhand reading can also aggravate symptoms in 400,000 to 1,000,000 children with an existing pre-disposition to sarcasm.
In the United States, 21 million, or 35 percent of, children live in homes where residents or visitors read Maxi Cane’s blog in the home on a regular basis. Approximately 50-75 percent of children in the United States have detectable levels of spite, the breakdown product of sarcasm.
Research indicates that private research conducted by K8′s science lab of explody goodness in the 1990s showed that secondhand reading of Maxi’s blog was highly toxic, yet the company suppressed the finding during the next two decades because they weren’t particularily arsed.
The current Surgeon General’s Report concluded that scientific evidence indicates that there is no risk-free level of exposure to Maxicane.blogspot.com. Short exposures to the blog can cause temporary blindness, damage to brain cells, an increase in erectile dysfunction, and a reduction of Intelligence Quota levels, potentially prepetuating Darwin’s theory of natural selection.


