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[[Newscaster WALT HOPPENDORF is reading from a paper.]]

WALT: We’re still reporting on the tragic case of forty miners trapped in a cave-in. With us live is mine foreman Eustace Prowlybucket.
WALT: Eustace, what’s the situation? Any progress since we talked to you last?

EUSTACE [[from inside the mine]]: In the last four minutes? No, Walt, I can’t really say so.
WALT: So what’s your next move?
EUSTACE: Well, right now I’m trying to find someone to take over these interviews, so I can get back to work on the actual mine.

EUSTACE: Now, I’m no mining expert, of course, but here in the studio we had a thought…
EUSTACE: Is it possible the miners are just lost? Have you tried shouting?

[[EUSTACE punches WALT as a reply]]

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#328; In which Walt makes a Suggestion transcribed by in

[[Newscaster WALT HOPPENDORF is reading from a paper.]]

WALT: We're still reporting on the tragic case of forty miners trapped in a cave-in. With us live is mine foreman Eustace Prowlybucket.
WALT: Eustace, what's the situation? Any progress since we talked to you last?

EUSTACE [[from inside the mine]]: In the last four minutes? No, Walt, I can't really say so.
WALT: So what's your next move?
EUSTACE: Well, right now I'm trying to find someone to take over these interviews, so I can get back to work on the actual mine.

EUSTACE: Now, I'm no mining expert, of course, but here in the studio we had a thought...
EUSTACE: Is it possible the miners are just lost? Have you tried shouting?

[[EUSTACE punches WALT as a reply]]

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THWACK

#328; In which Walt makes a Suggestion

  — August 17th, 2007

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