The Rookie's Guide to Crazes
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Mega-City One is one of the craziest places on Earth to live. Over 400 million souls crammed into an already overpopulated city often causes tensions to flare and temperatures to rise. Unemployment is almost 100% in the Big Meg¸ with only one in ten citizens ever getting full time employment at some time in their lives¸ leaving a bored populace with very little to do. It is little wonder that many of the citizens in Mega-City One turn to pastimes and other activties to relieve the tedium of everyday life.
From flying high at breakneck speeds on a powerboard¸ to soaring on thermal currents in a bat glider suit¸ to using cosmetics to make oneself hideously ugly¸ every craze has its highs¸ lows and devoted followers and it is these crazes that help make Mega-City One the place it is.
Inside you will find:
- Skysurfing: Of all the crazes that have swept Mega-City One¸ none have had such an impact as the hit pastime of powerboarding or skysurfing.
- Pro-Eating: Fatties are those who eat for fun and they live for one thing and one thing only¸ their love of food.
- Batgliding: Considered by many a pastime for the older generation¸ batgliding is one of the most popular forms of entertainment for crocks and eldsters.
- Shuggy: The king of all table games has to be shuggy. It is played in more bars¸ clubs¸ restaurants and shuggy halls across the world than any other game.
- Scrawling: Perhaps the most common form of arrest among young juves and often the first on a long rap sheet will be that of scrawling.
- Feeding the Masses: Tri-D plays an important part in the lives of most citizens of the Big-Meg¸ even if it only acts to relieve the tedium between waking and sleeping hours.
- All Creatures Great and Small: Each year millions of citizens will apply to the Justice Department for a pet permit so that they can own their very own furry or scaly friend.
- Getting Ugly: One of the strangest and popular crazes is the one that uses the products of one Otto Fester Sump¸ the world's ugliest man.