This is the longest in-the-doing UKR update there’s ever been. The photos were taken and submitted by a reader in October of 2007, saved to a folder on the desktop in November of 2008 and finally uploaded to the internet on [PUT IN DATE HERE BEFORE UPLOADING UPDATE]. Quite a journey!

In that time we have:

1. Lost the original email

2. Lost the photo of the cover

3. Forgotten if there was a photo of the cover or not

So here it is. Some scans of the Sonic The Hedgehog Joke Book.

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Also, several attempts at “doing” this update have ended in tragedy – the draft not appearing, forgetting to save it before closing the browser – it is almost as if this update is HAUNTED or in some way DOOMED.

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That bottom one isn’t a joke, it’s more of an un-amusing fictional anecdote. Perhaps compiling this book is where Ricky Gervais cut his teeth?

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Yet more proof that Sonic was never really targeted at an adult audience.

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Eggs puns. It can’t get any worse than this.

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More eggs puns. It can’t get any worse than this.

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This has triggered a memory – the person that sent in the photos apologised on behalf of their young self for colouring in some of the drawings.

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At least they didn’t go over the lines, and have shown good awareness of fish by attempting a nice rainbow effect on that pike.

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This is grim.

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There’s still lots to go.

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Hopefully this “haunted update” will crash the server when we press “Publish”, therefore saving you all the misery of reading.

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We’ve found the email – sent in by a Mr Jimmy Carr.

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Goldfish haven’t got anything to do with Sonic.

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We sympathise with the book’s creator. That duck joke is the final bit of writing of a broken man.

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This is less fun than staring at Twitter.

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Haven’t heard the “Quiche of life” one. That’s OK. That’s the highlight so far.

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The horse joke is assuming too much knowledge of equine terminology.

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Many apologies are in order to everyone.