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Subject: Peter Rabbit Tank Killer
    9/17/2006 9:15:37 PM
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Shirrush       9/18/2006 5:21:24 AM
Thoroughly unfunny and in bad taste too.
I thought this was a respectable website, where teenage testes overflow crap would be generally avoided...
 
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sjdoc    Seen it online before...   9/18/2006 6:02:25 AM
...but it gives me to wonder what might be the original source.  This thing looks a lot like the finest snotty National Lampoon stuff of the '70s, the kind of items that appeared in the first few years of the magazine's publication.  
 
Spot-on "Bedtime-stories-from-the-Dark-Side" parody. 
 
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jic       9/18/2006 9:58:58 PM
...but it gives me to wonder what might be the original source. 

I actually own the original source, and I've been trying to either find the book, or remember the title, since this was posted here yesterday.  As often happens, I suddenly both remembered the title and found the book within a few minutes of each other.  It's from The Book of Revelations by Mark Leigh and Mike Lepine, published in 1988 by Arrow Books, London.  The book is a series of spoofs supposed to be documents that expose suppressed truths about history and popular culture.
 
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sjdoc    The Book of Revelations?   9/19/2006 1:54:30 AM


It's from The Book of Revelations by Mark Leigh and Mike Lepine, published in 1988 by Arrow Books, London.  The book is a series of spoofs supposed to be documents that expose suppressed truths about history and popular culture. 


You mean there's more stuff like this slinking around in the big, wide, wonderful world?  I know these two writers as the guys who created the various Revenge Kit books in the late '80s and early '90s, but to the best of my understanding this The Book of Revelations title has never been published in these United States.  What else is in this lost guide to the sort of sick and evil historical perspective we should be maintaining on StrategyPage.com? 

 
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jic       9/19/2006 3:56:31 PM

What else is in this lost guide to the sort of sick and evil historical perspective we should be maintaining on StrategyPage.com? 

There's actually quite a lot in that book with a military history theme, including:
 
- A recruiting brochure for the crusades, set out to make them look like a 'Club Med'-style resort vacation.
 
- Regimental traditions of some of Britain's less well-known regiments, including The Royal Brown Trousers and The Queen's Own Amoebas.
 
- The cabaret acts of Hitler and other leading Nazis.
 
- Lost propaganda of WWII, including the Third Reich Dairy Assortment chocolate boxes dropped on England by the Luftwaffe.
 
- The nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, reported by London's Sun newspaper (PHEW!  WHAT A SCORCHER!).
 
- NASA memos disciplining a Dr Strangelove-style Werner Von Braun for his Nazi views.
 
- ATTENTION DOGFACE, the instructional comic put out by the US Army to help returning soldiers re-integrate into society (really only funny if you buy into the myth that US soldiers in Vietnam were insane, ear-collecting babykillers).
 
 
By the way, what's missing from the above scan of Peter Rabbit, Tank Killer is a memo from Sven Hassel's literary agent suggesting him for the job of reviving Beatrix Potter's characters.
 
 
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cb361    Book of Revelations   10/2/2006 7:53:08 AM
I've got a copy of  The Book of Revelations by Mark Leigh and Mike Lepin , which I bought from a bookshop that sold 'remainders' years and years ago.  It's in my desk drawer right now because I've been thinking about scanning the whole thing in and putting it on the WWW for quite some time.  It's still under copyright, but I can't imagine that it would ever be re-published by the owners...  If anybody is interested, let me know.
 
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