This is the time of year for local festivals. Really they are an excuse to promote what little community spirit there is and promote tourism. They can be pretty strange. For example my town has the Mudcat festival this coming week. The town mascot is a Catfish. I guess we have an excuse as this did evolve out of a fishing derby. Now there is a small fair, a carnival and a parade. Last night they closed my street for a street movie. The film was Grease. I don't mind the noise I'm all for community spirit. In the Army I saw how good morale can work wonders and with the current economic situation here I am all for working wonders. The parade consists of the Legion, the local Cadet Corps, if we are lucky a couple pipe bands. Perhaps a few floats sponsored by local businesses and the inevitable politicans that if you shake their hands you need to count your fingers later.
Which prompted this idea I am toying with. Anyone who wishes to give their local politicans a taste or in this case smell of what they deserve are welcome to try it.
First I am going to have to catch a couple of fish and clean them putting the entrails in a plastic bucket with an airtight lid and leave it in the sun. Next I need to get a pair of surgical gloves from the local drugstore. I have them in my first aid kit anyway so if you buy a box you won't be wasting it on just a practical joke.
Anyway the idea is to plug my nose with Vicks or petroleum jelly. Put on the gloves, open the bucket and dip in my right hand. Then let it dry a bit and go glad handing with all the politicans. It's important to be near the head of the line. After others shake the offered politician's hand they may notice that there is something fishy about that guy ( or girl ). Just my contribution to the political process. Personally I'm a humanitarian. That means if a human ever decides to run for office I will consider voting for them
To quote Bugs Bunny " Ain't I a Stinker? "
LMFAO!
ReplyDeleteMy god Sid, that's the best prank I've ever heard of since leaving a burning paper bag of dog poop on a door step.
I joined a couple of constitutional rights movements and have sent several emails to my state and Federal officials asking them to support our rights.
Personally, I think that prank would make a great contribution to our movement. Citizens can have regular and/or schedualed meetings with our local reps. each month. I can't imagine any words that could posibly get our point accross to a politician who refuses to uphold the U.S. Constitution any better than "something smells fishy dude". :D
Thank you for the laughs. Keep em coming.
Maybe we can start a movement. since politics are involved it would be a bowel movement.
ReplyDeleteWe could call it the DF&UTPM Dead Fish & Used toilet paper movement.
Umm guess I can mention this since I'm not married at the moment but a bunch of us on a fishing vacation together did try this one. We didn't use the glove but boy did it work. Especially when it was 6 stinky handshakes.
ReplyDeleteWe did have a means to cut the smell after but I can't recall it. Was some sort of Native Indian trick. If I can get in touch with any of the other 5 I will ask. Problem was I was usually the one with the job of remembering how to do that sort of thing. Maybe it was washing hands with Tomatoe juice.
omg, now you two guys are on to something fishy!!!
ReplyDeletei dont really know if you can get away with it as these politicians have body gurads who just might collar you for having a stinky hands!
hahahaha!
Odette our Politcians and this applies to Ray as much as me would trample their own bodyguards to death for a chance at another vote. That's from experience on 3 occasions I guarded the Prime Minister ( but that is one whom I never voted for ).
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