If you had to die laughing at one thing ...
Posted: 2003-09-23 12:52am
Okay, I need to lighten up a little. If you had to die laughing at one thing, what would it be? Here's one of my choice excerpts from Kynes' lavishly hilarious fanfic, El Boydo. I almost die laughing while reading it anyway.
Okay, now your turn.El Boydo wrote:The sun was rising but Mad Man Mark was already awake. Making the bed was easy. Kicking the pile of dirty laundry (not his, nor was it anyone's who knew him) over in the corner for now, he was ready for action.
First order of duty: read secret messages in Faux News.
Upside down and covered in magazines in another corner of the basement was a black-and-white TV which, for some reason, was wired for cable. He turned it over and on, tuned it to channel 34 on his UHF dial, and watched the fuzzy, rolling picture, turning the volume to maximum.
"OUR TOP STORY: FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON TAKES A CRAP. OUR FAIR AND BALANCED EXPERTS DEBATE WHETHER THE HOUSE SHOULD CONVENE A COMMITTEE OR IS THIS THE SENATE'S JOB? AS ALWAYS, BOTH SIDES OF THE ISSUE, COMING UP, BUT FIRST, A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR..."
He leaned way over then, pressing his face directly against the glass, although, weirdly, he did not bend his knees at all. Anyone entering the basement at that point would see a skinny, very pale, Mad Man Mark, wearing nothing but tighty-whities, bent almost completely over with his face against a television. More frightening is that if they had lived with him for any length of time, this would not even faze them.
The advertisements came on, and with them, the secret messages. Mad Man Mark had his pencil (pens were for communists who didn't believe in erasing everything they wrote; why not just mail it directly to the DUMB-oment? ok, he granted, that one sucked, but give him a minute and he'll find a way to work it in... governRAT? shit) and paper ready.
"DO YOU LIKE AMMO? DO YOU LIKE OLD PEOPLE? THEN HAVE I GOT THE MAGAZINE FOR YOU..."
Furiously, Mad Man Mark began writing. He wasn't writing anything meaningful, as he couldn't read or write with any proficiency... but the motion of the pencil allowed him to delay orgasm through this commercial.
Secret messages, yeah. On Faux News. Definitely secret messages.