Saturday 15 March 2008

All we are saying is, give puppets a chance

Yesterday, a report by KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City said that “a bomb was inadvertently dropped from a military jet onto the Canyon Creek Apartments in Tulsa on Thursday…military officials are trying to figure out how the pilot could have dropped the training weapon.”

The residents of the apartment were out at the time, but their aloe plants are missing and their cat will be in therapy for a long time.

Last year, the Army Times reported that nuclear missiles were inadvertently loaded onto a B52 bomber that flew from North Dakota to Louisiana. An Air Force spokesman called it “an "isolated incident,”adding that "the Air Force takes its mission to safeguard weapons seriously.”

He didn’t use the words “don’t be concerned that we mishandled nuclear missiles and flew them across the country, possibly over your apartment building.”

And a few days ago, we reported that the United States had dropped a bomb on three cows in Iraq. That one, we understand. The cows were hiding WMPs—weapons of milk production.

The editors of Imaginary Grapefruit have reached a conclusion: bombs and nuclear missiles are dangerous!

We propose using lawn darts instead...oops, we forgot that lawn darts have been banned in the United States since 1988, when they were deemed to be too dangerous.

So, how about puppets? Indonesian wayang puppets, Chinese stick puppets, whatever. Puppets are harmless. They don’t fall on buildings, kill cows or hurt anyone except, occasionally, other puppets. We like puppets.

All we are saying is, give puppets a chance.

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