Tuesday, March 17, 2009
This message was sent to us as a rebuttal that
appeared on these pages recently about marches in protest. In the
powers invested in us by some guy Bob who called and said we have to
give equal time for opposing opinions, so be it Bob. Here you go:
With St. Patrick's Day approaching, I am very surprised at the Irish people, of which some of your staff are included. This in regards to the Sprint telephone commercial filled with stereotypes of the Irish and not one single Irish was offended and rallied outside the Sprint offices in protest. In this offensive commercial, attendance is being taken in a class and when they get to the name Callahan, there is no answer. After repeated calls on their Sprint phones of course, we find out that the young Irish lad is a slacker with criminal traits already showing by cutting out of class. So, in what could be considered an APB, an All Points Bulletin for this young man who was needed elsewhere to help his family peel potatoes for St. Patrick's Day. Sure, might as well say it, it fits the stereotype you all were thinking. To top it off, why not just have the boy found passed out on a law, vomit all over him, hugging one of those little green garden gnomes, muttering “where is your gold” to the tune of that Irish Lullaby, Tura-Lura-Lural. Instead they make him overweight, trying to elude authorities and what else of all things. Of all the things they could put in this proud young Irishman's hands? A drink of course, a drink that he has to be partaking of when he is caught. It does not matter what was in it. It portrays the Irish people as lazy, overweight and drinkers. We all know what a stereotypical image that is. Where are the Irish people? Where are you lads and lassies. Your people on the proudest time of the year, proud of the homeland of beautiful rolling green grass hills, beautiful red haired, fair skinned, young ladies and the original Guinness Brewery. Tis a proud time for the Irish. The fact that you are not out there marching, protesting and waiting for cameras to show up to actually start doing something. Be proud of your inaction in the face of absurdity. Let it be known that a parody, a joke, a funny or attempted cartoon is still recognized as a joke. Let us not be forgetting, the song, the song that blamed the Irish for forgetting one of God's most wondrous creatures. Sure we remembered the green alligators and long necked geese, the humpty back camels and the chimpanzees, some cats and rats and elephants but don't you forget my Unicorns. Yes, that's right..."Don't Forget the Unicorn". Well thank your Lucky Charms and hoist your green beer in a salute to young Mr. Callahan for appearing in a funny commercial and that we, the Irish people, get the joke. May you be in Heaven a full half hour before the Devil knows your dead. Thank you for your time and space.
"Irish" Bob
Monday, March 16, 2009
Beloved actor, director, producer and political
activist Ron Silver passed away this past weekend. Initial reports say
his passing was purely accidental. What they know so far is that
while listening to multi-Platinum selling band Metallica, unfortunate
circumstances began. Ron and Goldie Hawn had just finished a little
fooling around that ended with a nice Bronzeski. When Ron got up
to change the CD and put on Queen with Freddie Mercury, he was bitten by
a Copper head snake that came in the front door by someone attempting to
Steel valuable from the house. It appears Goldie did the best she could
to suck the poison out. She applied pressure, formed an X and
sucked it to get the venom out. Unfortunately, her lack of First Aid
Training led her to suck elsewhere. Blond remember! Police are still
trying to figure out why Mr. Silver had such a huge smile on his face
when found. All from a new script entitled "The Quick and the Dead
Part 2" which we guess we will never get to see.
We just saw that a warrant has been issued for Lindsay Lohan's arrest.
Oh man, the perfect specimen of a female in a woman's prison. OK,
that's it. Can we get one of those subpoenas or warrants from that
Robert Shapiro website Legalzoom or something? We’re putting a
warrant out for her too.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Things are getting out of control with the banks. We were filling out a deposit slip at our bank, made a mistake and went to take a new one. Well, before we could grab it, two security guards restrained us and advised that it was only one deposit slip per customer. Any additional slips require a mandatory payment of one dollar with proof of ID. If it is a withdrawal slip, no way they want you taking money out. You have to fill out a form in triplicate, pay a $5 fee and be granted an audience with the bank manager to obtain a temporary reprieve and a promise not to take money out again.
Next time we need money, we’re just going go to Citibank. We’re pretty sure out of the 45 billion dollars they received, there's got to be a loose fiver lying around somewhere that flew out of the armored car and blew off the stack or something.
This headline appeared on MSNBC.com the other day, "Drug Stocks Fall on Obama Budget Health Proposals ". We assume that doesn't include pain killers or Valium.
When President Obama announced that he would need 3.5
Trillion dollars for his new budget, all we could think
of was Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers' movies when he
asks a ridiculous price for a ransom and they all laugh
at him.