Grimbledon Down

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Grimbledon Down was a comic strip by British cartoonist Bill Tidy, published for many years by New Scientist.

The strip was set in an ostensibly fictitious U.K. government research lab, which was in fact a thinly veiled reference to the controversial Porton Down bio-chemical research facility. Grimbledon Down's scientists engaged in all sorts of questionable research — such as the production of grossly disgusting pornographic movies which would hopefully turn off the audience's sexual drive and thus save the World's civilisation from catastrophic overpopulation. Another frequent feature was attempts to create or distribute NU-Food, an artificial foodstuff. Often the main obstacle was human behavior - one strip featured a group of turbanned clerics complaining they couldn't decide which hand to use when eating it.