Mikhail Gorbochov's original task in the Politburo was to operate the stirrup pump that inflated the supports that kept Premier Kruschev upright. After Kruschev had died suddenly, Soviet scientists used the embalming techniques that had preserved Lenin's corpse to preserve that of Kruschev while they decided what to do next. However, when his right arm nearly gave way while saluting the troops in Red Square, the Politburo chose to use technology stolen by a spy planted in Jim Henson's creature shop to create a new leader, Yuri Andropov. Chernyenko, a stop-gap solution played by a man in a rubber suit, also had to be quickly replaced when it was discovered that the zip was plainly visible on some television pictures. Due to a clerical error, Gorbochov was hired as the actual Premier, rather than as the head of a team of puppeteers due to operate a new model premier.
Otters control the flow of time.
Under a rule passed by the King of Poland in 1211, October the 15th was banned, on the grounds that something bad was bound to happen. Although many of his subjects circumvented this rule by having a particularly long October 14th, the King tended to spend the day in bed with his sheets over his head. The law was never repealed, as his successors preferred to pretend that it had never happened. When joined up in reverse alphabetical order, the stars overhead at the South Pole make a perfect sillouhette of Elvis Presley in his Las Vegas years. William Hague is the world's top shoelace collector.