Friday, September 13, 2013

A Morty Comix Twisted Conundrum


OK, so you and I are having lunch in sort of a weird new restaurant that includes a guy in a clown suit who entertains the customers by playing seriously romantic tunes on a violin as he roams the dining room floor. He doesn't smile even though his makeup indicates that he is supposed to be happy happy. Somehow the strange combination is meant to be ironic, but it just doesn't work.

We go to eat there for the first time mainly to watch this failed attempt at being hip, which we heard about from friends. We order and as we wait for our meals the clown plays "Let's Face the Music and Dance."

But then you notice that my eyes and the clowns eyes lock. You hear me utter, "Oh crap!" I turn pale, shove the table back as I pull out and run. You never knew my aging, portly out-of-shape self could move so fast. I'm out the door.

The clown yells, "Willis! Stop!" And from out his absurdly puffy costume he produces a sophisticated looking firearm. He bolts out the door in pursuit, pistol held high over his head. His comic oversize shoes prevent him from running too fast.

For about 15 seconds not a sound is heard in this eating establishment, but then the slow murmurs start and build to a sound like that of an air hose in action with nothing to fill, and you realize all eyes are on you.

About five minutes later the clown returns, empty handed. His fake nose, fake ears, hat, and wig have all fallen off. Streaks of sweat are traced on his facial greasepaint. He looks like our worst hideous nightmares of what clowns can be. He is panting, and pissed off.

The clown resets the chair I tipped over, plops down in it, crosses his arms with his elbows on the table, leans close and stares at you. In the distance you hear sirens. He presents you with some sort of official looking credentials and badge, representing some kind of national security agency you've never heard of with an acronym like the NSGV or something like that.

Then he reaches in his clown pocket, pulls out about a half dozen Morty Comix, and carefully arranges them on the table so you can see each one. "We intercepted these in odd places, like in gas stations, cafe menus, dead phone booths, you know, the usual place lowlife scum spies pass coded messages. Which is, in fact, what these are."

Meanwhile, the local police arrive and they appear normal except they are all wearing styrofoam Abraham Lincoln stovepipe hats. They see the clown and become very agitated and hesitant. None of them come close to him, but instead the one who seems to be in charge whispers into a radio communication device. Before you know it a man who looks exactly like Richard Nixon, dressed in an old-fashioned gangster pinstripe suit, complete with fedora, walks in the room and says to the clown in a commanding voice, "I'll have those Morty Comix now, Mister."

The clown starts to reach for his gun, but before he even touches it he is surrounded by officers who quickly draw their weapons and in an unified precision aim right at his heart. So he slowly rises and calmly announces, "You win. Let Hercules himself do what he may. The cat will mew and dog will have his day." 

There is always a bigger fish.

The styrofoam hat law enforcement officers allow the clown the leave quietly, but seconds later another set of sirens are heard in the distance, coming closer. The uniformed guys look at each other and the Nixon guy says, "Jeez, it's the REAL cops!" and they all run away, forgetting the original purpose of their mission.

So you are left sitting at a table with six Morty Comix and the sirens are getting closer. You have about 2 or 3 minutes to either cut and run or stay and deal with the authorities. What would you do, and what happens to the comix? 










 






3 comments:

  1. High-tailed skedaddling sounds about right. My experience is the police shoot first and ask questions later. Not going down for your misdemeanoring Willis! I mean that wanton littering, er, your charming distribution, of your Morty Comix is bound to get you in trouble sooner or later, secret NSA messages or not. The right judge might even condemn you to community service hours and have you pick up all those "distributed" Morty's on lands public and private. But, since its you, and keeping in the Morty spirit, I'd probably just make a kite with the Morty Comix and drift away, or, roll them into a tube to slip into another dimension, or origami them into a thing-a-jig and just... ah, forget it.

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  2. I'd grab the comix, dash into the kitchen and quickly change clothing with a waitress, the waitress that I've mesmerized by waving my hand in the air and pronouncing in a bad Dracula accent ..."You See Nothing".
    So in disguise, with comix hidden in the waist band of my apron, I'd put another pot of coffee on for whoever shows up next, all while trying to get through to Steve via cell phone.
    I'd probably have a slice of apple pie too.

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  3. While eating that pie, I'd call out "kitty, kitty, kitty" and seconds later all four cats would run in through the back kitchen door. Each cat would grab comix in their mouth and then skedaddle back out. Their mission: hide the comix and then retrieve Steve.
    Before I even finished the slice of pie, before anyone else ran into the restaurant - the cats would have fulfilled their hide comix mission and already be engaged in Operation Rescue Steve.
    The cats would have deployed their wings, grabbed hold of Steve by the shirt collar and pants hem, and be whisking him through the air towards a shallow yet rather cold pond of water conveniently located near by.
    I'd be enjoying another cup of coffee while mayhem continued anew in the restaurant and while Steve was dumped in the cold pond in retaliation for leaving me alone with the clowns. Also for the invisibility giving properties of this cold pond of water.
    Once Steve was invisible he could then return to participate in more mayhem, or he could sit down for cigars and a game of poker with the cats.

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