6# Great Britons!

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From the Desk of Mr. Mumble: I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside


I do love a trip to our seaside department. The boats were all based around my childhood Lego models, but they proved to be highly ineffective in armed combat. The designs returned to the office, and it was decided to instead match the design of my real fleet of war boats, which they incidentally are. You'd be surprised how often we have to go to war at sea, in fact we go to war at sea so often I'm considering sending someone back in time to give the department more money.

The boats are all made of metal, despite the warnings I heard in the foyer that metal doesn't float. Regardless, they are each equipped with seven steering devices of various sorts, the most modern is a little remote you just move around. I hear it's quite good. There are 7,000 ships globally, the most (33) are in the Swiss lakes, preparing for the day when Switzerland stops being neutral. They are all hand crafted from solid gold, feature a leather interior and are crewed by the entire cast of "Are You Being Served?", cloned to meet demand. We may only have 10 boats in the whole fleet, but they are damned good. However since space wars are becoming all the more common, I am seriously considering sending someone back in time and giving that department more money. Anyway,

Tally Mumble!

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