JACKO: YOU'VE GOT 24 HOURS, THEN WE WANT YOUR BADGE

Having not paid his staff at Neverlaidahandon Ranch since before Christmas, Michael Jackson has been given a twenty-four extension on the deadline by which he was supposed to have coughed up the cash.

We're not quite sure why having kept these people without cash for so long he got the extra twenty-four hours; perhaps he's waiting for the local Wal-Mart to restock those little wage envelopes; maybe it was overcast and he was having trouble making his solar calculator work. Or, perhaps, the State Department of Industrial Relations figured that having been unpaid for a whole quarter, his workers had already burned most of their furniture so they might as well finish that before they got the money for gas.

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