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Check it out and groove to it like a fresh funky rhythm. The DeeJay's Guide has a fresh flow to it, and the Fireplace has a funky- ass funk funk. It's fresh. And funky. It's issue 178, beeyotch. - - - - -- -------===========================------- -- - - - - THE DEEJAY'S GUIDE TO ORGAN REMOVAL - - - - -- -------====={by Gnarly Wayne}=====------- -- - - - - At one point or another, everyone has considered the removal of their own internal organs to help free up space, not unlike when you clean up your hard drive, which is quite similar to the human body. But did you know that you can also sell that isht for big $$$?!?!? "But Wang, how do we know which ones are safe to remove and still have a high dollar value?" is what you ARE asking right now. Well, that's why I created this easy guide for you to follow. Now, as a general rule of thumb, all organs are worthless, depending on your lifestyle. God just put them in there to take up space and to add some colour to the body. Okay, now get your scalpel, some tupperware, and some tissues, and get ready to make some incisions! HEART: These babies can bring a pretty good price because grrls like things that are heart-shaped, regardless of whether or not they are covered in blood. But don't try to sell it to a man, because he will think you are hitting on him and might go out with you! Ease of Surgery: C-. These can be difficult because the stupid rib cage can get in the way. To avoid the extra work of rib cage removal, try pulling the heart through the spaces between the ribs. It will get squished a bit, but you can reshape it with a rolling pin. Lifestyle: A. Due to the selfishness and complete lack of regard for normal decency that all people possess in the world today, the heart serves no real purpose in your body. It would look much better on the mantle or in a pot of chili. Worth: B+. To increase the value of your heart, try spraying it with some air freshener just before you peddle your sale. A nice smelling heart is a high priced heart! (Note: don't use lemon spray because that's just weird.) KIDNEYS: Now we are talking! Most people have TWO of these suckers! You've just doubled your profit margin and you haven't even done anything! Aces! Kidneys look like little beans or embryos and aren't very appealing to the art community, but they are useful in the industrial sector. Ease of Surgery: B-. Kidneys are fairly easy to remove. Just make sure you don't remove your liver and try to sell them as kidneys. You will be a laughing stock! Lifestyle: A+. Alcoholics horde these things like grim death. We don't know what to do with them, but, oh well. Worth: A-. An alcoholic will pay through the teeth for one of these if he or she is in dire need. Used this to your advantage! Buyer beware: there has been an influx of kidneys on the market that have been "kidney punched". To spot these worthless kidneys, look for a stamp on the lower left edge of the kidney that says "Kidney Punched". SPLEEN: Spleen rhymes with Ween and that means that these things bring in very little revenue. They are the cheapest of all the organ commodities, but can still turn a slight profit in Bogota, Atlantis, and the third ring of Saturn (hint: day flights to Atlantis can save you 13%). Ease of Surgery: F. No one has found a spleen yet so unless you want to cut randomly and hope to be the first, stay away from this financially depraved organ! Lifestyle: D+. I think spleens might just be an rural myth. Worth: E. You can get a kazoo and a plastic spider for a spleen at Fuddruckers. EPIDERMIS: Don't let this strange word fool you into not looking into this lucrative market! According to the sage of Eternity Mountain, epidermis is your hair and can be shaven or cut, but not both, for some quick cash when you are in need. Don't try to pull the hair out, as no shrewd buyer will appreciate clumps of knotty hair. Use a jackhammer or a laser pistol instead for greater accuracy. Ease of Surgery: C. The actual procedure itself is quite easy. The most difficult task to find the evasive hair. While you sleep, it likes to relocate itself on your body. Favorite spots to hide are on top of head and behind the spleen. Lifestyle: B. In the 1930's, hair was used to fashion weapons for the upcoming world war. When it was discovered that it didn't work, hair was then imported for use of making Chewbaccas and Tribbles. That same time-honoured tradition continues to this day. Worth: C. With a Chewbacca and a Tribble in almost every household today, the hair trend is on a slow decline. Unless a new use can be found soon, the market will quickly die out. Sell all your hair now! LARGE INTESTINE: Not to be confused with the small intestine, the large intestine has been a market staple for some time now. If they didn't have the tendency to come alive and steal your car, large intestines would currently be enjoying the highest net worth of all the organs. Ease of Surgery: A. Reach, grab, and yank. (hint: be prepared for a world of hurt). Lifestyle: B-. You might not want to remove your large intestine for the simple fact that it might steal your car. If you do not own a car, maybe it will steal one for you. Who knows? Stranger things have happened. Worth: B. This market is steady, steady, steady. I don't know what that means, though. LUNGS: Not to be confused with bungs, the lungs can gather oxygen and sell it to other organs for a small fee. This may seem beneficial, but sometimes your lungs will overcharge, which drops the stocks in the long run. Ease of Surgery: A-. There are rumours of a new technique for lung removals where you take an anesthetic and have a doctor remove it for you. Sounds too good to be true. Lifestyle: D+. Unless you need oxygen for some reason, this one is basically free $$$. Worth: C. You can make them into a conch, I mean crotch, I mean gondola. That covers the basic organs that will get you some nice $$$. You can remove all the others ones if you want the extra space to put in a microwave or whatever, but don't try to sell them cause no one will want them. Use this guide in good health. Here are some satisfied customers of the The DeeJay's Guide to the Removal of Organs for Fun & Profit. Mary B. McGregor (removed one heart, an epidermis, and two lungs) - "................." Sebastian F. Chang (removed two hearts and a kidney) - "................." Justin W. Woodrow (removed one spleen, three epidermi, and a brain) - "................." - - - - -- -------===========================------- -- - - - - A FIREPLACE AND A BEARSKIN RUG - - - - -- -------========={by BMC}==========------- -- - - - - A warm brick fireplace, a bearskin rug. The scent of a cabin. It smells of cedar wood although you look around and see none. Who knows? You've only been here awhile, it's not like you own it or anything. And me? I'm just the narrator. Don't ask me about it, you're the one who sees it. There is a light snow falling outside. The air is cool by the walls, but you are laid out in the middle of the room on the rug with the heat of the fire wafting up and caressing your nearly-chilly body. But don't worry, the fire is keeping you cozy. And it's a good thing you are sitting on the rug too, or it would be the floor, the stone floor. Masterful masonry, not quite like anything you've ever seen, or maybe even heard of. So is this place a castle or something? No, it's too small to be a castle, but it is nice. Real nice. What did you do to deserve being in this place on a night like this? You met the right person. That's the answer. The fire is getting warmer and it is beginning to feel a bit warm for a turtleneck. Now you look down, a bottle standing beside the rug, and you notice a half empty (or, in this case, half full) glass of red wine in your hand. You revel in the pleasure you receive from the one-on-one contact and conversation - witty, and occasionally intimate. A hint of foreshadowing, perhaps, about what will happen later this evening. Another drink. You top off your wine glass, laughing at some cavalier comment, and have another moderate sip. You feel a light spin from the room as you glance around at the grey walls, undoubtedly carved by a contracted super-secret society, but for now all that you think about is where this night will lead. Should you cry out in pleasure? Laugh in disbelief? Yes it may be - this is the feeling you've wished for since forever. For once, not a worry, not a longing. Everything you've ever hoped for is here with you, and for the first time that you can remember, you will yourself to be left vulnerable, to give yourself to any situation that arises. Outside, the cozy snow falls faster. You drink the rest of your wine, and pour some more. Taking another sip, you notice the room spinning a bit faster. You laugh. The room cannot possibly be spinning, and if it is, then it is just an hallucinatory merry-go-round. You feel young again. Everything comes out. There is not a scrap of inhibition left in you. Open. You are open. Open and content. Look around again, wide-eyed, and hit a high wave of sobriety. Aha! The room is still spinning! As you lose your focus and fade again into intoxicated dullness, you think you notice the stones of the foundation beginning to move unrestfully and grind against each other. It is getting colder, the fire is fading. Perhaps it would have been a good idea to leave that sweater on. You look around for it, but it appears that the rug has devoured it. As the powder that is grinding from the stone walls turns to chips, rocks, some larger pieces crumbling, you wonder if alcohol has this sort of hallucinatory effect for everyone. Your wine glass shatters in your hand as you convulse mildly in fear. The walls of the room shatter as the roof spins off into the snowstorm. You are assaulted by a cold front that ravished your ill-clothed body. "Let Me Rape Youuuuuuuu" the wind howls. Your lover? Where is your lover? Nowhere? The bearskin is moving from the inside. A hiding spot from the cold, or a certain death? You look toward the bear's mouth and, as expected, it devours you entirely. Hey, the turtleneck is in here! That's awesome! Next you are fed through the bear's acidic stomach where you are burned and horribly disfigured, then on to the intestinal tract where you wait out the storm. You awaken in bed next to your lover with a hangover and symptoms that are strangely similar to those one experiences when coming off the date rape drug. That's not what happened, though. That would be a stupid ending to this story. You ask what happened to the house, and your lover says "It crumbled and fell apart and the roof flew away, but I fixed it while you were asleep." "Oh," you say, all things justified. "Wait - what about my horrible burns and why am I no longer disfigured?" "Oh, well I administered first aid and now everything is back to normal, and I also hooked you up with that chin job you'd been whining about wanting for the last however long." "Cool." And there's another secret for you to discover. Did you know that your lover and the bear were one and the same? Everything is starting to make sense. "But... But..." you look at your naked torso, then look to your lover, then to me, and ask, "But where is my sweater?" 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