By posing for this photo, Bill and Mary Franklin are adding weight to the theorem that couples in long-term relationships tend to start looking like one another. In the left background, Bill Junior is saddened by the vision of what his future holds. In the further right background, an in-the-closet billboard model is desperately trying to prove he is something that he’s not…
Policeman: “Sir, I need you to hand over that camera.”
Me: “Wait, what? Why?”
Policeman: “Because you were talking while you were taking the picture. That makes it a documentary. And we don’t allow documentaries that show how people really are in this city.”
Me: “I don’t understand. Just like you don’t understand what a documentary is.”
Policeman: “Don’t argue with me. That’s police brutality. Do you want me to charge you with two felonies? Because I’d really like to. Make my day.”
Me: “Hold up. It’s a felony to make a documentary in this city? Where the hell am I? North Korea?”
Policeman: “This is Washington, DC, buddy. We don’t play. Unless it’s with other people’s money.”
Me: “So, that couple in the masks…”
Policeman: “They’re Republican senators. I would think the masks made that obvious. Did you not graduate from high school? Hit your head at some point?”
Me: “No, I got it now. They don’t want anyone to see them for what they really are.”
Policeman: “How else are they going to get elected? Now, hand over the camera.”
Me: “Sure thing. Hang on while I… say, do you know anything about cloud storage?”
Policeman: “That sounds like climate change. Climate change is a myth, according to the new police procedurals issued by the White House.”
Me: “Wow. Is there anything that Trump hasn’t touched?”
Policeman: “None of those rumors are true and the women are liars.”
Me: “Okay, then. Well, hang on a sec while I push this button over here and…. waiting, waiting… and done.”
Policeman: “Wait, did you just hide some documentation?”
Me: “Oh, I don’t know anything about that. You’d have to ask Trump about hiding things. It’s the only true accomplishment of his administration.”
Policeman: “You better not share anything that will make Trump run to Twitter like an overheated wildebeest.”
Me: “I would never dream of it. Here’s the camera.”
Policeman: “Got it. Okay, we’re done here. Now run along and stop being such a socialist.”
And… post.
Previously published in “Crusty Pie”. Considerably changed and extended for this particular lark.
Categories: Past Imperfect
Bonnywood Manor 
they are terrifyingly the same )
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Right? It’s like those twins in “The Shining”… 😉
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Great post 🙂
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Thank you!
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I have a severe case of Coulrophobia and the sight of those whatevers dressed up as such have rendered me almost mute. Even if they were trying to be a bit high tone with the subtle reference to Punchinello and Columbina (no, she wasn’t in Rocky Horror in sequins and a really strange hat)…
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I actually did pause for a moment before posting, wondering about the coulrophobia impact and whether or not I should add a bit of apologia to the discourse, but then I decided that clowns can show up at any time and we might as well be prepared for it.
Kudos for the Punchinello and Columbina reference, though. That was amazingly astute and deft of you, not that I should be surprised… 😉
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An overheated wildebeest. Good to have aspirations!
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We should all strive to be more than we are… 😉
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One look and I knew they were Republicans.
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It’s all about the subversiveness…
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This post is so good! 🙂 A micrcosm of the illogical and cracked world that Fat Donnie inhabits. That photo appropriately activates my clown phobia and the effect is complete. Well done! 🙂
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Thanks, Lynette. The Trump Administration is one clown car after another, and every one of those cars is stuffed full of idiots…
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You know what they say….not only partners end up to look alike but even the pets sooner or later will look like their human parents.
💁🏻♀️
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Yep, even the pets. I once had Scotch the Cat pose for my driver’s license photo, as I was a bit under the weather and not feeling all that glamorous, and you couldn’t tell a difference… 😉
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😂😂😂😂😂
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At first I only noticed the hats and masks, which if you squint look like a certain outfit from down South. Then I saw the buttons – oh, clowns!
And yet, either costume works.
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It’s truly a multi-purpose photo, both enhancing and denying a number of phobias and misguided presumptions about, well, everything. Such is the American way… 😉
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