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CARTOON RIOTS

ROCK THE WORLD!!

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UTOPIA (Rooters) Months after a Utopian newspaper printed a cartoon of Popeye the Sailorman which depicted him as a steroid-using "Landlubber", sailors and cartoonists alike from around the world have continued to turn up the heat on Utopian Embassy's around the globe. Several deaths were reported from what can only be viewed as staged riots and protests (as one unnamed world leader put it:"People who read cartoons are easily provoked into fits of fervored anger, unaware that - after all, 'it's only a cartoon'."

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Mobs of angry people gathered around various Utopian Embassy's throwing cans of spinach as well as frozen spinach packages. One Embassy employee who didn't want to give his name said "I'd rather be hit with the frozen ones, because then I'd have something cold to keep the swelling down". His words were barely heard over the crowds chanting: "We Yam what we Yam"

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The King of Utopia tried to play down the violence caused by his newspapers cartoon, via satellite television, while asking those who loved Popeye to return to their homes. This reporter noted that while he seemed earnest in his belief of little violent activity, the King was making his speech from inside a see-thru dome which is impervious to the spinach can pummeling which has been previously reported from Utopian Embassy's around the world.

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