We’ve all seen them, those blow-uppy action movies. The kind that ends (or middles, because the very last thing is usually a fist fight) with 57 smashed-up vehicles littering the flyover and the streets below, including a school bus, a Greyhound, a semi-truck with a Humpty Dumpty logo and at least six police cars? Or the ones with a shootout that
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I'm just imagining a whole lotta people applying for unemployment.
Also...Astana, Quito and Milton Keynes...can I admit I have never heard of any of these places? So unsophisticated!
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But yes! To the pension plan issue. I remember the woes here in Silicone Valley North when a lot of the HiTech firms crashed, and pensions were lost ...
And unemployment? Imagine Clint having to try and file:
"I apologize for the wait, Mr. Barton. Recession, you know. So, what did you do for the government?"
"I kill people."
"Now, Mr. Barton. I realize you've been standing in line for three hours, but that is no reason to get snarky. I'm a government employee too, you know. we're practically colleagues."
"No, really. I kill people. Including Nazi bureaucrats."
"Very funny, Mr. Barton. Dying of laughter here. I'll put down 'stand-up comic' then."
"Remember that African dictator that died mysteriously in a hail of arrows a few years back? Was all over the news. And that guy they found in TriBeCa last night? Nazi bureaucrat, that last one."
"Oh. My. Holy ... Yessir. Whatever you say, sir."
"Right. Oh, and assassin has four 's'."
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