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Post by Miss Linkie on Jul 26, 2011 17:37:55 GMT -5
Sit back, and relax with tonight's host: the cultural alter ego of Cookie Monster-- Alistair Cookie.
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Post by redpiggy on Aug 3, 2011 12:31:11 GMT -5
My Fair Lady
A dirty street is crowded with lots of people, monsters, and grouches.
Grouch Lady (trying to sell flowers): 'Ey, getcher flowers here! Watch it, loser!
Count von Count: Ah, you are selling flowers! How vonderful! I would like four, four flowers, ah ah ah!
Grouch Lady: Alrighty, four flowers ... that'll be ... uh ... sixty cents.
Count von Count (surprised): Oh, no -- that cannot be!
Grouch Lady: Too much?
Count von Count: No -- too little! How can such vonderful flowers be so cheap? It hardly seems ... fair. They are so pretty. I insist you be paid more than such a mere pittance!
Grouch Lady: "Fair"? What's "fair" mean?
Count von Count: Vy, it means an equitable situation!
Grouch Lady (frowning): Can ya explain it in fewer syllables?
Count von Count (thinking): I ... I must pay vat it is vorth?
Grouch Lady (nodding with understanding): Aaaah, I see! Well, since ya wanna be "fair" ... I guess I can be "fair" too! Gimme what ya think ya owe me, Mistah.
Count von Count (hands her a twenty dollar bill)
Grouch Lady (in awe): Wow. That's a good cache o' cash dere. *grins* Okay, here's a "fair" exchange. *tramples the flowers and then hands it to him* Dere ya go ... now we're even.
Count von Count (devastated): How ... how can you do this?
Grouch Lady (shrugs): Well ... pretty flowers are worthless. They're only good if they're ruined. Don'tcha start whinin' or nothin'. I've been only "fair".
Count von Count (sobs as he walks away)
The scene cuts to Alistair Cookie as he sits on a plush armchair in a well-decorated living room next to a fireplace.
Alistair Cookie (sipping some tea): Ah, what is "fair"? "Fair" is difficult to explain. Moral of the story? Don't assume grouches agree with you about what is "fair".
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