Last night I did a gig where the MC dressed up as Hitler and sang Bing Crosby songs. He also heckled the acts from stage right. Oh, and the gig was on a boat.
And no, it wasn't all "a wonderful dream". Such is the life of an open-mic comic.
On the bus today a woman was carrying a large cardboard tray. Being of the slightly nosy persuasion, I had a gander. It wasn't just any large cardboard tray, it was a chocolate-filled advent calendar. With about ten of its doors opened. What on earth could cause the carrying of a chocolate advent calendar in May? Here are my suggestions:
1. The lady is very protective of her calendar. She only allows herself to open the doors on very special occasions and carries it with her everywhere she goes to ensure no-one else eats her yummy advent chocolates.
2. The lady will do anything for stale Christmas chocolate. So much so she's carrying round the calendar, tasting windows at intervals until they get to the required level of stale-ocity. This is a real word and much used amongst the cordon-bleu chefs in London.
3. (And this, of course, is the most likely). The woman fell through the time-warp hole that exists between Liverpool Street Station and Bethnal Green. One minute she was thinking, "Oh goody, the tenth of December, not many more shopping days until Christmas..." and the next she was in the middle of Liverpool Street in May. It's happened to us all. (See http://laurasplog.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html on 5 October.)
1 comment:
Because June/July is winter here, people have mid-winter Christmas functions. This is not just weirdos...WHOLE companies participate in this craziness!
Anyway, my point is, maybe she's a Kiwi and is planning on coming back for a mid-winter Chrostmas function - which would of course be incomplete without a calendar!
H xx
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