Zine Central

'Zine (or mega-zine) is basically a page on teletext on channel 4 (page 382) where people write/email/text in with letters of poems, lists, or just generally anything that they want to. It started off as but a mere page, and has moved many times, and got such classic regulars as parsley possum, sykopathik mushroom and the dark grey wolf of norbex. WLW, or 'white line warrior' as he/she's know, writes witty *cough* comments at the bottom of the letters, and is accompanied by Davord, lord of Tharg (think graham norton meets jack from Will & Grace), Granny WLW, Mavis (WLW’s cat) and Marcel, his monkey butler. There are 8 pages of letters, and the first page is devoted to one-liners, a sacred page, if you will.
The people who write in regularly are called 'ziners' and those who have only written in once or twice, or are new to zine are called 'newbies' and usually have to undergo the painful 'asswhipping with a wet towel' ritual to be accepted into the wondrous zine. Now there is a growing community of 'ziners and general wierdos who make websites devoted to zine and have 'meets' to find 'ziners in their area. Zine is almost like a manifesto...a manifesto of twisted, outcasted people bent on ridding the world of 'townies' and the such.
Here is an example of some of the things people write into 'Zine about:

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