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Campfire Rumors

So, the boys and me were sitting around the campfire talking, when one of the galoots goes and says, “ You know its funny but I can’t ever remember there ever being so much flu vaccine rejected, and aint it funny how it happened just three weeks before a major election, it sure gets a guy to thinking...”

Thanks a lot Mr. Smartypants!, now instead of going to sleep, I’m going to have to sit here and think about paranoid conspiracies involving socialist bureaucrats in England conspiring with their Democrat allies to scare the hell out of American old folks, who now are lining up around the block because they’ve heard there isn’t enough flu vaccine to go around.

It wouldn’t take much, a little failed inspection here, a little production line sabotage there and "poof", you got yourself a "custom made for the 5:00 news" emergency. Now instead of dropping dead of flu, the old codgers are dropping dead in line at the pharmacy, thinking that if they don't get their shots, that they are going to be reenacting Stephen Kings "The Stand" in the community hall at Del Webbs Sun City. There is nothing in the world more dangerous than old folks with time on their hands and panic in their hearts. And you can just forget talking rationally to them, you can't tell those folks anything. Once you get that herd into stampede mode, you need to get out of the way, because there is no talking sense to them.

I hate it when this happens. I wish I remembered where I put the shovel so after Mr. Smartypants goes to sleep I can go bang him upside the head with it for planting that thought in my brain.

Posted @ October 18, 2004 11:14 PM | Current Events

Posted by: Steel Turman at October 19, 2004 08:48 PM