No Helmets
I heard a wonderful comedian on CBC from Newfoundland. The interviewer asked him how he decided to be a comedian and where he got his jokes from. After the usual comments about the house parties in his childhood listening to stories and the rich maritime song and story tradition, he said that he also used stories from real life. "Like"he said,"you'll be watchin'the news and you'll notice things like the kamakazi pilot footage where those pilots put their helmets on before they gets inta the plane."
I remember one news story from when I was a kid and the Jehovas Witnesses used to predict the end of the world would be on such-and-such a date. A reporter camped out near the doorstep of one of these prophets who said the world was going to end the next day. He got a great picture of the man putting his milk bottles out for the next day's milk delivery.
If the world was going to end the next day,what would you do? Would you bother flossing,for instance?
I remember one news story from when I was a kid and the Jehovas Witnesses used to predict the end of the world would be on such-and-such a date. A reporter camped out near the doorstep of one of these prophets who said the world was going to end the next day. He got a great picture of the man putting his milk bottles out for the next day's milk delivery.
If the world was going to end the next day,what would you do? Would you bother flossing,for instance?
posted by Judy at 2:04 PM
5 Comments:
Maybe I'd start flossing. Might as well head into armageddon with clean teeth and bleeding gums.
If the world was ending I'd do as the pope would do ... "Schauen Sie beschäftigt!.
Okay. What does that mean?
Look busy!
I would probably just try to get some extra rest.
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