EXPECTANT MEDIA: Bring out yer dead!
[a man puts a body on the cart]
WORLD: Here's one.
EXPECTANT MEDIA: That'll be 50 cents a copy.
PALESTINIAN SPOKESMAN: He's not dead.
EXPECTANT MEDIA: What?
WORLD: Nothing. There's your 50 cents.
PALESTINIAN SPOKESMAN: He's not dead.
EXPECTANT MEDIA: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
WORLD: Yes he is.
PALESTINIAN SPOKESMAN: He's not.
EXPECTANT MEDIA: He isn't.
WORLD: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
PALESTINIAN SPOKESMAN: He's getting better.
WORLD: No he's not, he'll be stone dead in a moment.
EXPECTANT MEDIA: Well, we can't report him dead like that. It's against regulations.
PALESTINIAN SPOKESMAN: He doesn't want to go on the cart.
WORLD: Oh, don't be such a baby.
EXPECTANT MEDIA: We can't report him as dead.
PALESTINIAN SPOKESMAN: He feels fine.
WORLD: Oh, do us a favor.
EXPECTANT MEDIA: We can't.
WORLD: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
EXPECTANT MEDIA: We promised to be at the bin Laden's. They're about due, you know.
WORLD: Well, when's your next round?
EXPECTANT MEDIA: Thursday.
PALESTINIAN SPOKESMAN: Mr. Arafat wants to go for a walk.
WORLD: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do?
PALESTINIAN SPOKESMAN: He feels happy. He feels happy.
[the EXPECTANT MEDIA glances up and down the street furtively, then silences the PALESTINIAN SPOKESMAN with his a whack of his club]
WORLD: Ah, thank you very much.
EXPECTANT MEDIA: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
WORLD: Right.
Posted by Ryan at November 8, 2004 03:34 PMI've gotta say this whole Arafat death watch thing has been beyond creepy. Yes, it is the end of an era blah, blah, blah. The guy's dying, give him some space.
Although I do wonder if he still has his pair of .45's with him just in case someone tries to assassinate him?
Posted by: Johnny Huh? at November 8, 2004 06:09 PMYeah, he does. And they've got pearl handles.
Of course they've had to superglue the suckers to his comatose fingers but he still presents quite the striking figure.
Posted by: Jim at November 9, 2004 02:36 PMThey can pry them out of his cold dead fingers, to quote the NRA, lol.
Posted by: Donna at November 9, 2004 08:33 PM
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