This was never posted to Usenet. However it does show the risks of going without sleep for long periods of time quite well. The spelling and lack of punctuation is as it was when I original wrote it. A friend wrote me a little guide about sleep after reading this.
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An ode to washing up

And so it came to pass that the attack on the washing up beast by dawn's early light but was a fient to lure it to a false hope it would left in peace. However, our troups had a fiendish plan to devestate the beast and suitably punish it. A swift attack was pressed home by the light of the stars. In the bleached colours of the night the frenzy of battle was somehow muted; the lunging and counter scrubbing of the brush seemed at one with the attacks and screams of pain. Even the normally lurid colours of the magical fairies was reduced to a dull glow, much like a small school of phosphorescent fish timidly breaking from the sea.

Whilst the washing up beast fought long and hard, it was at last vanquished.

However, let not our victory lead us to believe that the washing up breast is banished; legends have it that it will arise from its ashes like the phoneix. To once more rattle its knifes at us in anger.

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