It's Mr. Schnoose, the manager of the Fluesville Factory, with Flues News for today.

There's a lot of important factory news to cover, including updates about Lake Fizzy.

We have exciting and enticing inventions from the Test Kitchen, and we've got a new

Bring Your Buddy to Work Day. First off, I do want to let everyone know that the next two weeks we will be set up to succeed with producing as many fizz bars as possible.

See, this morning I sent Waffle and Martha on a little errand.

They went to fetch me some of the cheese that's on the moon.

Not just any cheese, an aged courier with 15 pounds of melted blue.

Honestly, whatever they come back with doesn't matter.

All it matters is they're gone for two weeks.

Here we go.

On to the first news update. We've got some surprising things found

at the bottom of Lake Fizzy this week. According to reports, we've pulled up the following.

A very old refrigerator, a very new microwave, three pillowcases filled with green socks,

a statue of a large cow made entirely of paper clips.

I was wondering what happened to all my paper clips.

They also pulled up the entire series of Fraser on DVD, a deflated hot air balloon filled with mashed potatoes, and 52 baseballs embroidered with baseball champion.

Oh, alright. Before anyone asks me, I may or may not have been practising my baseball swing 52 times a couple of nights ago.

Turns out, practice doesn't make perfect.

But it does prove to me that the baseball bat must be defective.

I'll simply write a strongly worded letter to the baseball bat company, don't you worry about that?

Now about the rest, the lake is not a dumpster, and the dumpster is not a place to eat ice cream.

I'll remind Waffle and Martha when they get back from their vital cheese-chasing mission.

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