Space Baron

"Look! It's a bird! No, it's a plane! No, wait! It's a cloud..." said Space Baron, pointing at the white fluffy, cloudy-looking object in the sky.

"Isn't it amazing, how remarkably that cloud DOESN'T resemble any of those things you just said," Brian added, before Space Baron sarcastically killed him.

DID SPACE BARON REALLY SEE ALL THAT WIERD STUFF IN THE CLOUDS?
WILL BRIAN SURVIVE HIS SARCASTIC DEATH?
IS THIS AN INTERESTING ENOUGH INTRODUCTION TO A WEBPAGE?
FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT BY READING THE UNRELATED EVENTS OF THE NEXT INSTALLMENT IN THE SPACE BARON SERIES!

Don't worry, Brian will be fine, he always is. But welcome to the wonderful world of Space Baron, where we take all of the funniest jokes and tell them over and over just in case you didn't get them the first time.

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'Twas a fateful day back in 1997 when Bob went to type an email to his buddies on one of the communal keyboards in a QUT computer lab. To his dismay, the space bar proved to be a most unreliable one. Every now and then a sentence would come out that had fewer spaces than he had intended it to have. The exact words of the email have been forever lost in the unsearchable vacuum of cyberspace, but it may have included a sentence that went something like: "The space baron this keyboard doesn't work". And Space Baron was born.

It is unclear as to whether the first Space Baron episode was keyed in the same email, or if it was in the subsequent email. But the important thing was that he had been conceived. Don't ask me where Brian came from - I think he just seemed an appropriate sidekick to such a creation.

The heroic duo went on to have all kinds of awe-inspiring, blood-soaked, clever, dramatic, exciting, fascinating, glorious, hilarious, interplanetary, jelly-leg-inducing, killer, laughable, momentous, naked, overpowering, poignant, queer, romantic, space-aged, titilating, unimaginable, violent, wierd, x-treme, yoyo-ing, zip-zoop-zabulous adventures.

For years we would write Space Baron episodes in our spare time. He became a form of folk legend. We used him to describe everyday situations, vent our frustrations, tell stories, and annoy the crap out of everyone who we cc'd on each episode.

The success and relative longevity of Space Baron is often attributed to its cult status and the fact that email is so user-friendly that even the most unwilling of Space Baron fans are forced to receive a spam-like barrage of stories. But Space Baron is more than that. Each episode is a unique piece of literary humour, that recycles the same gay jokes, similar storylines and the big 'Space Baron and Brian live in a suburban apartment' joke, whilst at the same time being an unpredictable and enjoyable saga of abruptly finishing or neverending epics.

Space Baron has encountered numerous super-villains over the years - including The Superbly Evil Dr Killpeopleviolently (his second cousin twice removed), the Bad Adjectives King, Bureaucracy Man, Captain Ownandflyahelicopter, the Doctors Dastardly, Keg, Defrag and Greenfinger M.A.D., Gamblor, General Failure, the evil pirate Kemptbeard, Lightning Rod, Luke Warm, Machine Man, Mr Withers, the Nuclear Family, Pghghurphschweghurenon, Stan "The Man" Zemanek, the Tickle Torturer, Wyetukay and Rory.

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