Magazines

The Mating Habits Of Magazines In Snarkefellian Studys

by Ian Dean (icdea1@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au)
written 16 Jun 1995

This article is classified "Fictional"


The mating habits of magazines in the confines of the average snarkefellian
study.

Magazines like proximity to each other so that they can lose themselves
right when you are looking for them.  In Snarkefellia magazines reproduce
by combining advertisements through the generations, while looking 
externally similar as one or the other of their parents.  This makes life
very difficult for the average snarkefellian, as they can never find that 
ad for that computer they were looking at just last month.  It also means
that any useful information is progressively lost from generation to 
generation, forcing the snarkefellians to learn things all over again over
time.  This has been likened to following certain products, such as word
processors, where they change sufficiently from one release to the next
so that you have to relearn everything again.

Snarkefellian intelligence is thus not very advanced, and quick learning is 
very well considered.  The average snarkefellian dinner party consists of
digging through back issues of magazines in studys looking for articles 
which were seen just last month.  Snarkefellian magazine's reproductive
habits will be the subject of other articles, suffice to say we thought 
Earth Humans were strange!  The location of the study of a snarkefellian is 
always some distance from the house due to the noise of the abovementioned
mating habits.  Male snarkefellian magazines (those in the male mode, i.e.
electronics, construction and bricklaying magazines etc.) attract the 
females of their species via the rustling and fanning of their pages.
Female magazines reciprocate the interest by sliding over and falling on
top of their preferred partner (female mode magazines include dressmaking,
fashion and other similarly useless wastes of good matter), smothering them
in the snarkefellian magazine way, and then proceed to procreate.

After the birth of their children (in small removable booklet form) they 
proceed to fill as much space as possible until they are packaged and 
returned for recycling, therefore living another day and adding more 
matter to the waste piles.

See also:
  • Mating Habits Of The McBain Initial

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