Case #12752: The Coughing-Fit Brothers

 

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For many years they had a popular two-man act going: they would cough, and cough, and fly to pieces. Unfortunately, that's all they did. As time passed, audiences demanded more and more body parts would fall off; one of the brothers obliged, while the other - the darker, brooding brother - honed himself down to one perfect autodecapitation. He regarded his brother's willingness to lose all of his limbs as showy, and felt it ruined the subtlety of his own performance. coff2.jpg (16K)They had a falling out and ended up working for separate cough-suppressant manufacturers - often appearing on the same page, but never together. Take both if you like, but separate them by at least 40 pixels.