Wiley Coyote slowly raised himself up onto his tiptoes and peered over the rock at the long road below. He put his paw over his eyes to shade them from the sun and sighed. That pesky roadrunner was nowhere in sight! But Wiley knew that he would come along eventually, he always does!

Now Wiley knew his sole job in life was to stop that darn roadrunner from using this road. He has been faithfully trying to do his job for years without count but he hasn’t succeeded. Wiley felt he had done his best but something seemed to happen each and every time to cause Wiley to fail. What could he do?

At first Wiley thought it was the stuff from Acme Supply. He has tried using the Artificial Rock and Dehydrated Boulders to stop the Road Runner! Somehow, when he drops the Acme Anvils, the things always land back on his head! Acme Blasting Powder? Nothing more than a sneeze! There have been earthquake pills, flypaper, giant rubber bands and the famous indestructible steel ball! He has tried the disintegrating pistol and the invisible paint! Glue? Grease? Oil? Nitroglycerine? All useless!

There have been jet-propelled pogo sticks and unicycles, rocket sleds and rocket powered roller skates, spikes, bazookas and space guns. Nothing has worked and each one has put poor Wiley Coyote into the hospital. What is a poor, hardworking coyote to do?

But a smile crosses Wiley’s face. Today will be different! Today, Wiley has come up with the answer! Today will be the day that the Road Runner meets his just rewards! Today is the day that he, Wiley Coyote, will triumph!!!

Then, in the distance, Wiley hears that familiar Beep! Beep! The Roadrunner is coming! Steeling his nerves, Wiley grabs the box containing his latest purchase from the Acme Company. Grinning, he opens it and pulls out …………….?

Candace

Debbie

Hillie

Jeri Mary Lou
Maxie Maxie Paula

Maxie Wilma

Okay, these guys were active (mainly) in the 50s. A few of you might remember a poem from that time period (1956):

'The Perils of Modern Living'

Well up above the tropostrata
There is a region stark and stellar
Where, on a streak of anti-matter
Lived Dr. Edward Anti-Teller.

Remote from Fusion's origin,
He lived unguessed and unawares
With all his antikith and kin,
And kept macassars on his chairs.

One morning, idling by the sea,
He spied a tin of monstrous girth
That bore three letters: A. E. C.
Out stepped a visitor from Earth.

Then, shouting gladly o'er the sands,
Met two who in their alien ways
Were like as lentils. Their right hands
Clasped, and the rest was gamma rays.

-- Harold P. Furth

My theory here is that Wile E. Coyote, with his Acme Atom Smasher/Nuclear Physics kit, will create an "anti-Road Runner" made out of antimatter. When the curious Road Runner comes over to investigate, POW!

(Of course, the coyote doesn't get to eat any Road Runner -- as he didn't the one time int he series when he caught the bird -- but he can now stop the chase and get on with his life!)

So here's my "anti-Road Runner":

Bob