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| Luxury yacht of billionaire who wants Magnautic Island Times |
Our proposed new online production-the Magnautic Island Times
(MIT) - has taken global financial
circles by storm. After we recently
revealed the fabulous venture
to our readers
, giving them
the golden
opportunity to invest their life
savings , the Wall
Street Journal described
the investment offered as
greater than the
combined Klondike goldrush
and the great
Australian Poseidon share
boom . A ruthless
New York media
magnate , who refused to give
his name , immediately contacted
us and said
he wanted to
buy MIT to turn into a
tax loss company , despite massive potential profits, with the help of
lawyers, accountants
and dodgy bankers.
Despite the
strong urge to immediately accept
a
cheque , drawn
on the Bank
of Nigeria , as a deposit , we decided
to play
the Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory
game to attract
further bidders and
up the price
by tens of millions
We
also hired an
American gumshoe
to check out this mystery squillionaire
. An initial report indicates he is a Great Gatsby-like
character with a
shadowy background, who gets about in
a pink suit , has a
butler, Basil, and lives in a mansion
on West Egg ; there is
a
belief
that he is
the runaway ,
eldest , black-sheep
son of the late Pierre
Pierpont , a notorious
American robber baron . Our private
eye claims the filthy rich guy ,
in his wild 20s , deserted
from the French
Foreign Legion after an episode
with an innocent
camel in the Street of a Thousand Urinals . At
the time , the camel’s angry father
offered a reward
of 1000 francs and an autographed
copy of Beau
Geste for
evidence leading to the
guillotining of the offender.
At
one stage in the tycoon’s
brutal climb up the
ladder to massive
fortune , he variously passed himself
off as an
architect , an illustrator of filthy French postcards , a highly qualified
medical man with a string of
false degrees and even posed as an absurd looking Indian snake charmer in NSW, before fleeing overseas ahead of the Federal Police
and two bikie gangs , the
Mormons and the Grey Nomads , who kept knocking
on his
door.
Tantalising excerpts
of a high literary standard from the
MIT mock up will
be run in Little Darwin from time
to time to
send investors into a bidding
frenzy.
