Endnote 204 — who supplies the novelty gags, and who owns him

Traces the whoopee-cushion-and-X-ray-specs merchandise back to Acmé Inc. of Waltham, sold at a steep, politically motivated discount because the firm is owned by a shadowy, Québec-sympathetic Albertan mogul — an anti-broadcast A.C.D.C. force who years earlier seized the then-U.S.-owned company in a hostile takeover after "the serial Blammo Cigar tragedies" (p. 1034).