antoine wilson
I write to you from the St Louis airport, enroute to Iowa City. Looking at the map on the plane, I see that I’ve come a little too far east, but I guess that’s how hubs work. And when you’re traveling on miles and points, that’s how you roll.
I invite my blogreading public to name the following phenomenon:
1. Read a news story.
Ahmadinejad: “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.”
2. Come up with knee-jerk, “a-ha,” joke about news story.
Larry Craig: “I am not gay.”
3. Google to see if anyone else has come up with it.
Google Blogsearch: “senator craig ahmadinejad”
4. Find that someone else has already come up with the same lame joke.
One of many: “…including sending Larry Craig to Tehran to negotiate with hand signals and toe taps.”
5. Give up.
***Or ignore the fact that everyone else has done it and do it better***
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antoine wilson * ** ***
* not my surfboard
** not my dog
*** not my apartment
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