@wales,

Like Syphilis, it's spread.
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Pretty soon they're going to be riding their pretend bicycles to a pub-near-you where they will spend hours upon hours drinking pretend beer while shooting pretend billiards. Wait and see if that doesn't drive you to madness.

Most people don't know it, but that's actually what happened to King Lear. Mimes accompanied the French Army (psychological warfare) to English soil and it was that that pushed him over the edge. :-)
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*"My God ... the mimes are everywhere."

Quill