abstract | - The Mayor of Warsaw was a historical figure noted by Arnold Rimmer. Rimmer remembered that he was the chief official in the city of Warsaw in Europe on Earth in the year 1546, and had literally "exploded" according to legend. It was one of the earliest recorded instances of spontaneous human combustion. Three million years later, aboard Red Dwarf, the Mayor of Warsaw was brought up in conversation by Arnold Rimmer as there being as much chance of it happening, and that of it raining fish, as Dave Lister had of getting with his old crush Kristine Kochanski. Since Lister had contracted Space Pneumonia, his hallucinations were manifested into reality. These included his Confidence and Paranoia, a rain of fish, and the Mayor of Warsaw. The Mayor of Warsaw appeared in front of Rimmer ringing a town crier bell, before exploding almost immediately. Leaving only his robes and smoke behind, Rimmer stated that "it's really going to be one of those days". (Confidence and Paranoia)
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