Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Yes, I know, the world has gone crazy, but cheer up, folks- we're saved, it's Festival of Radical Puppetry Time!. War is over if the puppets want it.

I can see the scene now-

GW: Dick, Rummy, I gotta problem.
Dick: Yes, Mr. President.
GW: Well, I was reading the paper today and…..
Rummy: Uh, Mr. President, we told you not to read that thing, it'll only confuse you.
GW: What about the Sports section?
Rummy: Well, of course, you can read the sports, but that's about the only thing you can read.
GW: Not even Marmaduke?
Dick: No Marmaduke, no comics, no nothing. Just sports. You know how it is whenever you try Jumble.
Rummy: Dick didn't we tell the President's Secretary not to give him nothing but the Sports section?
Dick: Yep. She must have forgotten. I'll have her detained to Guantanomo tomorrow.
GW: Anyways, I was reading about this thing in San Francisco…
Rummy: Oh no
GW: and they had this puppet show.
Dick: Puppet show?
GW: Yeah, like Kermit the Frog and all that stuff.
Dick: Kermit the Frog?
Rummy: Some kind of hippy-dippy70's stuff. Sang songs about being green and rainbows. Total Communist Propaganda.
Dick: Stupid hippies.
GW: Wait, now listen to me, guys. This had nothing to do with Kemit the Frog. Not even Fozzie the Bear. It was, well, it was about me.
Dick: What? A puppet show about you?
GW: Yes, and they said some nasty things about me. They even made a puppet that looked like me and made him to be really dumb.
Dick: No! Not a puppet!
GW: Yes, a puppet! And they had a puppet of both you and Dick. Condi too.
Rummy: Those bastards! Not puppets! Anything but puppets!
Dick: Were they French?
GW: No?
Rummy: Hmmm, must have been lesbians, then
Dick: ahem
Rummy: Oh, sorry, Dick..
GW: Well, anyways, they had this puppet show in which we were characters and they said bad things about us. And I read what they said about us and what we've been doing.
Dick: Yes? What about it sir?
GW: Well, they said some bad things about us and, well, it made me think about a few things.
Dick: (under his breath) uh-oh
GW: Like, you know, if we cut taxes for rich people, the government takes in less money and so they'll be less money for poor people.
Dick: (sighs) Remember what we keep on telling you about that? That poor people have dividends so that if we cut taxes on dividends, all the homeless people will have money to buy houses.
GW: Yes, but maybe that's not right. Maybe cutting taxes on dividends won't help poor people. And here's another thing. You know, maybe we actually need other foreign countries and that we can't go around threatening to blow up people who we don't like.
Rummy: Oh, Dear God.
Dick: Damn puppets.
GW: And you know something else? Maybe fossil fuels are bad for the environment and that conservation……
Dick: (pulls out cell phone) We got a Code Red here! Code red!
GW: In fact, those puppets made me realize that maybe I've had an easy, charmed life. It made me think that maybe I shouldn't run again in 2004 and go to Africa to help fight AIDS and then maybe go to……
Dick:NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rummy: We're ruined! Ruined! Damn you Radical Puppeteers, damn you all to hell!

Tickets are going fast so call for them soon.

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