STAY ASLEEP

Quite possibly inspired by rightly famed movie They Live, which surprisingly revitalised the thoroughly exhausted wrestling-alien invasion-subliminal message genre, AP spent much of AP26 pasting little bits of paper in unobtrusive places.

Typed on the oblongs (hey, sticking up little bits of blank paper is too zany even for us - if you want to see that kind of limitless tomfoolery go and watch PCW Plus or someone) were snappy, capitalised phrases which, without troubling the reader's conscious sparks, would nonetheless lodge in their lobes until they had to OBEY WITHOUT QUESTION.

These sneaky instructions (examples given in that month's Who Do We Think We Are? included LUST AFTER POINTLESS THINGS, DO LESS, LET NATURE REPEL YOU and SPY ON YOUR SUPERIORS) would naturally fail in their purpose if they were easily noticed, so were affixed to skirting boards, window sills, the inside seam of jackets, at an angle behind the water machine so they could only be seen when bending down for a cooling cup and then through smearing liquid, to Winter the PCG Hamster's back, etc etc.

The fad quickly died out, as we'd made everyone do what we want, but by then we'd lost the label map.

The little bits of paper were around for years.