Well, that ought to cover everybody. In keeping with the theme of the latest instalment of Science Boy versus Professor Proteus, I’d like to introduce you all to a dear friend and longtime business associate of ours...
...Dermot the Circus Worm.
We first crossed paths with Dermot when Sparky and I were scouting talent for a worm circus we had recently acquired in lieu of payment for services rendered. (Worm circuses provide the customer with less in the way of thrills and spills than flea circuses, but offer the impresario a steadier long-term investment, and one which is far less likely to disappear on the back of a passing dog.) A versatile performer, Dermot is what we in the business term an ‘all-rounder’, his skills extending from acrobatics to aerial artistry to feats of dizzyingly death-defying daring. The endeavour which first attracted our attention to this intrepid annelid was his unsurpassed aplomb at lion-taming. Although confident that we had a sure-fire crowd-pleaser on our hands, we did run into some initial teething problems involving the scale and cost of this particular part of Dermot’s act. Not only do crowds have a hard time keeping a seven-foot-long lion and a seven-inch long worm in their field of vision at the same time, but our budget extended to barely a portion of the down payment on even the most reasonably-priced pre-owned circus lions on the market at the time. A suitable compromise was reached, with the help of a hamster of our acquaintance who had a certain degree of training as a method actor.
Be all that as it may, Dermot’s chief purpose in making an appearance here is to provide a highly tenuous segue to the next episode of Science Boy versus Professor Proteus. Click Here to find out what awaits our hero…and our villain…and our hero’s sidekick…and our whatever-it-is-they-call-the-sidekick-of-a-villain-if-that-sidekick-rates-rather-significantly-above-henchman-status…er, and so on and so forth.
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