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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (7314)	4/6/2001 6:20:25 AM
From: Rich1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15481

1745 JM(But with the employment report coming out, WHO KNOWS?) 1776 Richard Sak 1812 JXM (Time for the overture 1835 Rich1(Same as yesterday)

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (7314)	4/7/2001 11:15:07 AM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15481

In honor of Herr Gloop's return to these pages, I offer a dramatic reading from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl...... The very next day, the first Golden Ticket was found. The finder was a boy called Augustus Gloop, and Mr. Bucket's evening newspaper carried a large picture of him on the front page. The picture showed a nine-year-old boy who was so enormously fat he looked as though he had been blown up with a powerful pump. Great flabby folds of fat bulged out from every part of his body, and his face was like a monstrous ball of dough with two small greedy curranty eyes peering out upon the world. The town in which Augustus Gloop lived, the newspaper said, had gone wild with excitement over their hero. Flags were flying from all the windows, children had been given a holiday from their school, and a parade was being organized in honour of the famous youth. 'I just knew Augustus would find a Golden Ticket,' his mother had told the newspapermen. 'He eats so many bars of chocolate a day that it was almost impossible for him not to find one. Eating is his hobby, you know. That's all he's interested in. But still, that's better than being a hooligan and shooting off zip guns and things like that in his spare time, isn't it? And what I always say is, he wouldn't go on eating like he does unless he needed nourishment, would he? It's all vitamins, anyway. What a thrill it will be for him to visit Mr. Wonka's marvellous factory. We're just as proud as anything.' 'What a revolting woman,' said Grandma Josephine. 'And what a repulsive boy,' said Grandma Georgina.