Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Magic 8- Ball

"Welcome to the first magic 8-ball state of the union address. We are here in the nations capitol with the President, a magic 8-ball and the all-American setting of a Washington Nationals - New york Yankees game. This evening's format will be: viewers text in proposed laws or changes to the constitution, our panel of three judges will determine which questions will be addressed, the President will ask the magic 8-ball the question and governmental choices will be made according to the answer received."
"Good evening Mr. President."
"Well hello there, it's a great night for baseball and the democratic processing."
"...Uh, yes sir. Well, let's get started sir; do you have a question for the 8-ball to get the evening going?"
"I do, who is gonna win this game?"
"It has to be a yes or no question sir."
"Oh, my bad, are the Yankees gonna win this contestify?"
"NOT LIKELIMIFY!"
"Well hot damn, I do not like Yankees."
Off camera whispering: "Get a different 8-ball in here, stat!"
"Sorry sir, we'll have this 8-ball replaced immediately."
"Why?"
"They are made in China sir and they don't always get the English correct."
"What? It said the Yankees are going down; what more do you want?"
In a whisper: "That's not how you spell "Likely" sir."
In a rather unenlightened non-whisper: "Son, I went to Yale and didn't pick up on that; you think the average deal or no deal watching American is gonna get a sublet error like that?"
"...Good one sir! (then, in a whisper: "sir, this is live.")
"I know that son and, as sure as my hands on a bible, that was just jokery."
More whispering: "It's television sir not radio; they can see your hands."
"...Get the secret service in here, someone absconded with my good book!"
"Well sir, this show has gone the way of your approval rating; any last ditch questions for the 8-ball that might salvage things?"
"Do we belong in Iraq?"
"NOT LIKELIMIFY!"
"Get this thing out a here and get me one that was made in the U.S.A."
"It just arrived sir."
'Well, let's give this another try with the same question."
"HELL NO!"
"Damn Democrats! Get me a non-democratical 8-ball!"
"We've run out of time sir; I really don't know how to end this so we'll just stop here
Good night."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You should send this to one of the shows on TV as a mini clip. It would be funny.

Echo said...

I agree with Anonymous, and it's not just due to personal bias :)