Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland had a secret love child in the late forties. This child, a boy called Todd, was left in a motel and later changed his name to Mark David Chapman. In 1960, a lonely Chapman bought a dozen hamsters from a Calgary pet-store. The hamsters escaped, with half of them being eaten by cats. The others took refuge under high-voltage radio transmitters, where they mutated and grew man-sized.
The hamster-mutants learned Canadian English, started wearing clothes, and formed a band called Notary Public. They were quite popular in Winnipeg, though mutant-hamster Randy Bachman split with the group over creative differences and formed the Guess Who, and later BTO.
Notary Public were killed in a Scandinavian bus plunge during their Fjord Jam of Seventy-Fjour, and were interred in a cemetery in Hammerfest. Five years after their deaths, a small comet slammed into their large above-ground group-sarcophagus, re-animating their corpses. They re-formed Notary Public and released a live album which did not sell well in the United States.
