A day doesn't go by when I don't imagine myself in the halls of power, making decisions, attending steering committee meetings, heading discovery working groups. And let's not forget drafting legislation and speaking firey tirades to a legislature populated by 17 sleeping members of parliament.
That's the life for me.
And even before that, you got the dry and pablum campaign trail where you say nothing of substance and try and repeat the most catchy if inaccurate soundbite twenty times a day. On TV! Repeating phrases that my handlers and political analysts have deemed best 'resonate' with this or that demographic!
But I think I'd really excel if they created certain Cabinet Positions for me. The sort that might not exist in a single democratic regime, or even in the crazy ones where the warlords drive Bentleys and the children learn the fine art of AK-47 assault rifle maintenance at the age of 7.
Such as:
Director of "That's What She Said"
This might be the trickiest of all of them. I'll have to sit in on any public hearing and scream, with little voice modulation, "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID" to anything that may be construed as vaguely sexual. I'll get bonus points if I yell it at quotes that make no sense at all.
The thin line here will be to mock the actual use of it, as in, the sort of person who might say this habitually, without becoming that person.
Sort of a Frodo/Smeagol thing.
Deputy Minister of Antics
This job will entail pulling off absurd stunts when the media is giving undue attention to something the government would rather forget.
Kick backs being traced dangerously close to an appointed official? I got this Edgar Allan Poe Short story I'd like to perform for you all in backwards Klingon, my assistent will be juggling three empty flames... in esperanto.
Another senator getting caught in a sting against deviant and highly sexy bathroom behaviour? Hey everyone! I'm going to now question the purpose of pauses in modern theatre, starting with Pinter and ending with Dr. Seuss. This will be performed in a large vat of mint and jalepeno Jello.
No flash photography, please.
Head of the Department of "Boooooring"
It'll be my job to sit in on speeches to a general audience in which complex and far-sighted solutions are proposed. The answers will be thoughtful, backed by scholarly research, and overall better for the country, if difficult to understand. Unfortunately, they are being championed by my party's opposition, so I'll yell out "BOOOOORRING" as soon as they get too 'in-depth' and or start to present 'scientific evidence'.
We'll seemed down to earth, and to be bringing some common-sense to those big wigs up on Parliament Hill.
Hopefully I'll be able to parlay this catchphrase into a short-run and universally panned talk show.
Minister of Peppermint
What? I just really like it. It's like a fresh April shower in your mouth!
But I think I'd really excel if they created certain Cabinet Positions for me. The sort that might not exist in a single democratic regime, or even in the crazy ones where the warlords drive Bentleys and the children learn the fine art of AK-47 assault rifle maintenance at the age of 7.
Such as:
Director of "That's What She Said"
This might be the trickiest of all of them. I'll have to sit in on any public hearing and scream, with little voice modulation, "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID" to anything that may be construed as vaguely sexual. I'll get bonus points if I yell it at quotes that make no sense at all.
The thin line here will be to mock the actual use of it, as in, the sort of person who might say this habitually, without becoming that person.
Sort of a Frodo/Smeagol thing.
Deputy Minister of Antics
This job will entail pulling off absurd stunts when the media is giving undue attention to something the government would rather forget.
Kick backs being traced dangerously close to an appointed official? I got this Edgar Allan Poe Short story I'd like to perform for you all in backwards Klingon, my assistent will be juggling three empty flames... in esperanto.
Another senator getting caught in a sting against deviant and highly sexy bathroom behaviour? Hey everyone! I'm going to now question the purpose of pauses in modern theatre, starting with Pinter and ending with Dr. Seuss. This will be performed in a large vat of mint and jalepeno Jello.
No flash photography, please.
Head of the Department of "Boooooring"
It'll be my job to sit in on speeches to a general audience in which complex and far-sighted solutions are proposed. The answers will be thoughtful, backed by scholarly research, and overall better for the country, if difficult to understand. Unfortunately, they are being championed by my party's opposition, so I'll yell out "BOOOOORRING" as soon as they get too 'in-depth' and or start to present 'scientific evidence'.
We'll seemed down to earth, and to be bringing some common-sense to those big wigs up on Parliament Hill.
Hopefully I'll be able to parlay this catchphrase into a short-run and universally panned talk show.
Minister of Peppermint
What? I just really like it. It's like a fresh April shower in your mouth!
2 comments:
MMm.... fresh April shower...
"...shower in your mouth." THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!!!!
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