Guess Who is Coming to Town??!!!
When I accepted the job in Gainesville, FL I didn't know much about the South or Florida in general. I like it here. The people are kind, the fishing is top-notch and it has all of the creature comforts a low-maintenence science cat like I need. It has taken two years and one keystone event to remind me of what a strange place it indeed is...
It was a media barrage, radio, TV, print-- all extolling the exciting fact that HE was coming to town. The mayor dusted off the big key and the red carpet was steam cleaned and starched. The homeless were packed up and dropped off in Palatka.
Who was coming? George W. Bush? Pope John Paul II? Jesus?
No. Gallagher. That's right, the male-patterned loudmouth with a clown hammer.
Today I weep, as I am a Gainesvillian.
posted by Schmootzie @ 11:59 PM
3 Comments:
Kevin, why weep? I'd much rather roll out the red carpet for Gallager then Dubya. Although, in Dubya's defense, he is sometimes funnier, even if it is unintentional.
I weep whenever a retarded northerner with a fake southern accent is paraded through town. Both are heroes here. Gallagher's audience loves to wallow in destroyed watermellon and Bush's loves to wallow in a destroyed future.
The irony is, as you state, one tries to be funny and isn't, the other tries not to be funny and is.
(hitting head against desk)
Ugh.
kf
Are you sure it is the "Gallagher" that is accepted as the real "Gallagher"? I am uncertain as to the details but "Gallagher's" brother allegedly sued him over use of the family name and supposedly books shows now as "Gallagher". Kind of like when you go to the local 4th of July festival to see "Nazareth" only to find that there are no original members.
Your town may have rolled out the scotch guarded carpet for a pretender to the throne.
But speaking of "Bush"; it may not have been the first time.
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