Zima and 1994 Cancun in Mexico

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1. Pictures say a thousand words...

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2. For those of you who've watched Babylon 5...

Zima helped bring about the legendary Narn Bat Squad.

From the old Usenet Babylon 5 FAQ: (Note: JMS is J. Michael Straczynski, the creator, writer, and producer of Babylon 5.)

"What is the Narn Bat Squad?"

In the beginning, there was Zima--a vile, mass-market, alcoholic concoction that only the depraved mind of an MBA could conceive. During a discussion of the Zima sign that appeared in "TKO" (at a time when Zima advertising featured an obnoxious abuse of the letter Z), JMS posted the following to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 (27 July 1994):

Actually, the idea of Zima lasting even into 1995 is hysterical. I keep fighting the urge to have some guy show up on B5, "Zo then I zays to him, nize ztation"...and five Narns just jump on him and beat the shit out of him, WHAMWHAMWHAMWHAMWHAM!

Newsgroup readers associated this remark with earlier JMS posts in which he just happened to be holding a baseball bat while inviting persons he had been disagreeing with to step closer. Such references read something like this:

Don't run, X...come back...stand still...it's just a baseball bat, X...we're gonna play a little game...X...X...COME BACK HERE!

From the merger of retaliatory Narns and baseball bats was born the Narn Bat Squad--a hardy, overworked team that appears to smite those whose posts contain outrageous passages offending the sensibilities of their readers. Puns and bad jokes that provoke anguished groaning have been known to draw the squad's attention with uncommon speed.