The telegram from the booking agent
to the traveling troupe read:
“WHEN ADVERTISING THE HIPPO’S ACT IN MOUSEVILLE MIGHT USE DESCRIPTION SUCH AS, ‘A SUBTLE AND SAFE PERFORMANCE’ STOP. CAN’T GUARANTEE SUCCESS BUT WORTH A TRY STOP.”
On a certain star,
the current wisdom says
that the enthusiasm for mental stability
has noticeably subsided,
while on her sister planet they hold just
the opposite view.
Un-anchored Dialogue:
“When it doesn’t matter everybody and his brother’s an expert.”
“Would you give us an example of the exceptions to this?”
“I don’t know of any.”
Then there was this other guy who used to yell,
“OWWWIE!” even when he wasn’t hurt, just,
he said, because he didn’t care.
Another happy subscriber writes,
“My brother-in-law’s youngest boy says
that if you play some of the Daily News backwards
they make just as much sense.”
J.