The President of the United States has engaged in a Vulcan-like mind meld with Prime Minster Kevin Rudd. Here, in a world exclusive, Gliberty reproduces the last couple of pages of the Australian delegation's meeting minutes. Sadly, the rest is badly stained (mayonnaise?) and illegible. The good news is that the lost pages seem to relate to matters of protocol.
Mind 1: Wow, there’s a lot more room in here than I was lead to believe.
Mind 2: Oh boy! Mmmmm! MMMMMMmmmm!!
Mind 1: Hey, can you knock that off, it’s freaking me out.
Mind 2: Sorry.
Mind 1: It’s OK. Let’s stay focused.
Mind 2: Yes sir. First, I’d like to say, welcome aboard!! It’s great to have you in here and back in synch.
Mind 1: Whassat?
Mind 2: You’ve come back to the fold and I welcome you.
Mind 1: Look, buddy, did anyone tell you how this mind meet works?
Mind 2: Well, I just assumed we’d meet, in the mind, so to speak, and have a bit of walk around each other’s, you know, oohing and aahing at each others great stuff and you’d see that a lot of your stuff is much like mine…
Mind 1: Whatever. Can you just keep it down while I have a look? I want to be in and out of here as fast as I can and you’re kinda distracting me.
Mind 2: Oh. Ok. Can I just point out this idea over here? It’s one I had about isolating toxic debt. And over here is one I had about the need for better Australian like world wide financial regulation and this one is an idea I had that neo-liberalism and greed and a whole lot of other bad stuff, which are not my ideas, ha ha, caused the crisis. And here’s a beauty I had about Australia having a seat on the Security Council and that one over there is about China getting us out of this mess…
Mind 1: Look, I’ll say it one more time. Be quiet. Whoa! What’s that!?
Mind 2: I have no idea. I don’t know where it came from.
Mind 1: She’s pretty good looking. And she’s American! Where’d you see her? Looks like the inside of a club.
Mind 2: I have no recollection.
Mind 1: Sure. Do you know, surprisingly, I do have one question. Why are there no other women in here? I mean we’re both married but we all carry around a memory or two.
Mind 2: Um. Well. Here’s an idea I had for Australia being really very important in the Asian region and here’s an idea I had about me being Secretary General of the UN, after I’ve stopped being president of The Republic of Australia (that’s one of my ideas too). Hey, why are you squeezing your fingers on my neck…
Mind 1: I’m out of here.
(POTUS releases subject from Mind Meld)
VP Biden: Send in the next one?
POTUS: Sure. Anyone but Brown.
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