Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Upholding the morals in Lilliput

The Rectum at the Lilliput Institute for Spoonfeeding ordered the Morality Police of Lilliput to lock a young goblin in a dungeon as punishment for publishing an outrageous story, replete with references to goblin pudenda and possible usages of such pudenda.

It was the same sort of story that goblins can freely buy and read in Lilliput, but only if the stories are written in other forests, outside Lilliput, by goblins who do not live in Lilliput, and in a language other than Lilliputian.

There was an uproar following this Fatwa, with writers saying that had a right to write whatever they thought was right, and others saying that it was not right that writers should have this right. So, the Great Leader Gobbi set up a Group of Wise Goblins, which was to decide once and for all what Lilliputian goblins should be allowed to say, write, hear, read and see.

The Group of Wise Goblins embarked on their task with great enthusiasm, and when their work was finished they drew up a list of words that would be forbidden and which, if written in any publication in Lilliput, would entitle the Morality Police to throw the publisher into a dungeon.

The list of forbidden terms included expressions such as Gobb, Gosh, Oggja and other words that, according to statistics, are used on average once in every sentence that is spoken in Lilliput. It was published in the Goblin Gazette, and the following day all members of the Group of Wise Goblins were rounded up by the Morality Police, and thrown into a dungeon for publishing obscene material and thereby breaking the Obscene Publications Act.

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