|
RE: Today
(LINCOLN-Bob Newhart) Ahhh … yeah … Hi, Bill …. Err. We heard a joke this morning … about .. er, Ha-Ha-Ha … er , oh boy ! Yeah! About …. you wanting us to buy … ha-ha-ha … Alasca! ….
Er, what ? … its wha … its not a … its serious ? … oh!
Ok.
Ok.
Wait a moment. I … yeah … I’ll jus’ … yeah … oughta sit down.
Woah!
Hey, Bill … those headaches? You haven’t been … ??? No. No. Ok.
Yeah. OK. So. Yeah. Tell us about this … Alasca? Its got a ‘k’ ? Ok …. yeah, Alaska?
Its what? Its in the North? Oh, yeah. That’s what I thought. North of … ? yeahhhh …. North of ? California, Oregon way? Right. Right … and we oughta buy it be … be … ‘cause ?
Ok … its got …? Its got what , Bill?
OH! ok. right.
Bill, err, dunno how to say this … Bill , errrr , we got quite a lot of ... land right now.
Yep, yep. Yep, we got rocks, too.
Trees? Oh. Good. Yeah, well … can't have too many trees.
Not until yer gotta cut em down!
Roads. Railways … we aint got too many of them …
Alaska ? How’s that going for railways … nooo? Roads? Nooo?
ok
Right. People? Not too many?
Ok. Some Indians ? … and maybe a few ??? what? Brits, Scots, Irish and French ? Oh! ok ... guess, we can deal with ...
…
What? What , Bill? The Russians didn’t want it? So … ? You wanted to help them out?
Ok. And you didn’t want the Brits to have it?
Well … I c’n unnerstan that …
Ok. Ok … so … the Brits were going to buy it?
No? They wernt? Oh !! Oh. Right … the Ruskkies were going to give to them?
So you went and bought it instead … Ok.
Well, thanks … errr, yeah . Thanks … Bill. You know, I got some little blue pills that help sometimes ...
“The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns
|
Today
