The Manus Sinistra Archive, while not quite the Library of Congress (let's call it a Library of the Incongruous) just keeps on giving. In what appeared to be a flagrant mooning of the flaccid rag mentioned in an apology in the same edition, and an apparent breach of copyright that could ruffle Big Bird's feathers, Manus Sinistra II (published II - MCMXCIV) lead with a daring backpage title and theme that could easily have been mistaken. Of course, upon closer inspection, even authoritarians with an overstated sense of personal power soon knew they would have to bide their time and wait for a better opportunity to bring these subversives to their knees.
It also featured the much loved GRAMANAS, anagrams of the names of actual people working in I.T. at the time or shortly before. Productivity was inversely proportional to the craic that was had developing these. I found myself chuckling like the addled old fool I will shortly become (two out of three ain't bad for now) as I rewrote my favourite, the brilliantly simple: "I RISK EATING".
Enjoy!
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