Back to my home page/introC: "It does have a nice ring to it."
K: "It could be a show where fish from different endangered species would come up and tell their story, and at the end of the show, the species of fish with the most pathetic story would win a tactical nuclear weapon to use in protecting their habitat."
C: "I was thinking more along the lines of a show where people could come in and tell the audience how they had always felt out of place in a human body, and that they were really supposed to have been born a fish, and at the end of the show, the one who told the most convincing story would be surgically altered into a fish."
K: "That would be good too."
C: "It would also make a good slogan for a household cleanser."
K: "You mean instead of 'Lemon Fresh Pledge'?"
C: "Exactly. Yes, now your bathroom can smell of 'Fish for a Day.' The only household cleanser that leaves your porcelain the pearly white of rotting fish!"
-- Pope C, the story you have just read is true. Names have been changed to protect the innocent. K: "Floating mines."
C: "What?"
K: "Floating mines. What the endangered fish really need is floating mines, so that they can blow up fishing vessels."
C: "Oh. I thought you said floating minds, like you and I seem to have at the moment."
K: "What?!"
C: "Floating _minds_. Minnddzz."
K: "Oh. I thought you said floating mimes."
C: [stunned silence]
-- Pope C, poste verite'
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