And from the Mash...

THE death of Osama Bin Laden is a temporary glitch, purveyors of top quality fear have insisted.

The world's leading fright-mongers said the Tom Clancy death of the world's craziest scary-bogey man would focus the industry on developing a new state-of-the-art nightmare, probably with giant, razor-sharp tusks and eyes the colour of Satan's droppings.

Tom Logan, booga-booga-booga analyst at Donnelly-McPartlin, said the US government's decision to ethnically cleanse the underside of the Western world's bed was a surprise change of tactics.

He added: "If America keeps making the monsters go away like this then eventually someone might start to ask why they still need so many anti-monster guns.

"And at that point the house of cards begins to look a tad shaky."

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