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Three papers opened their doors on a cool but sunny spring day in Thistleville. CW McGregor, Angela Loungechair, and Charles Duckford sat at their respective chief editor’s desks at the three papers. The rush to get their papers out for the long, Thistleville dam-day weekend, was on. On Friday, neither CW McGregor nor Angela Loungechair could populate a whole paper because of underinvestment in the newsroom. White space dominated the front page and readers were perturbed by the blank-ness. CW hired 3 news beavers to take up the slack. The three promptly slapped each other’s tails and scandalous gossip about the state of CW’s newsroom was the talk of the town by Saturday morning. ...

Three first-time, wanna-be forest rulers sat down at the table. They were initially befuddled by sentences like “Birds Are Wild. You can always treat a bird card as a card of another suit”… “WTF is a bird card?!” one wanna-be lamented. Eventually, it dawned on all of them that they were playing three different games and that maybe at least one of them should have paid attention in Civics 201: Ruling a Forest in 2025. ...

“Crash Dandyboots’ silver bullet screeches around the final corner. He is certainly burning away whatever rubber was left on those tires he’s been nursing since the first half of the race… Well I’ll be a possum’s papa, if that engine holds he might just have pulled this off!” – Martin Brundle’s third cousin Crash Dandyboots’ engine did, in fact, hold and he pulled of a thrilling victory in the inaugural Formula OSC racing season’s first race at Silverstone. It was an phenominal afternoon of racing. Pre-season testing in Marseille got off to a slow start as teams discovered what their new cars were capable of. And, in the case of the Wilbur team, where the gas pedal was. Alonso, a mononym, and no relation to Fernando of F1 fame, drove a fantastic race and secured a solid second. Chuck Wilbur, was a steady third and finished only tenths of a second behind the two race leaders. ...