This is your chance to show that you have what it takes to be a Deputy Smartfella? (specializing in Foolishness).
If you think I spend my day lurking around alleys and listening at windows in the dark of night to find Foolishness, you are very wrong. It is not that complicated. All I do is watch TV and read my daily newspaper and the Foolishness miraculously appears before my eyes.
Do you want to be like me? If you just said, “Yes!” read on. If you said, “No” read on anyway because there may be a chuckle or two in the rest of this Foolishness…Or Is It?
FIRST NEWS ARTICLE
Here are pieces excerpted from my local newspaper a few days ago…
- Headline of the news article… “Dumped body murder suspect back in Gwinnett”.
- The first paragraph of the news article reads as follows… “A Tucker teen accused of killing his friend and setting ablaze the car that contained her body is back in Gwinnett County, facing charges”.
- Later in the article it says… “The alleged killing happened in DeKalb County, where the suspect faces murder charges”.
This is your chance to prove that you are a keen observer of Foolishness. Did you see it? It is a single word. After such phrases as “dumped body murder suspect” and “killing his friend” and “setting ablaze the car that contained her body” my newspaper then jumps right into my foolish world and says “alleged killing”.
Our judicial system will still have to prove that the suspect did the actual killing but there should be no doubt that there was, in fact, a killing.
SECOND NEWS ARTICLE
I have always having been interested in aviation, that’s why this one makes me especially sad.
Here in bullet format are the facts as laid out in the article I recently read…
- A World War II B-17 bomber (one of the last flying) took off.
- It quickly went down in a corn field.
- The plane was consumed by fire.
Are your Foolishness sensors up and ready to see the foolishness?… The article’s wording was, “A World War II B-17 bomber made what appeared to be an emergency landing in a cornfield Monday…”
Why did my newspaper use the words “appeared to be” to indicate that this happening might not have been an emergency landing?
I think this was an emergency because most planes do not land in cornfields right after takeoff and burn up.
I am such a keen observer of this crazy world we live in that I really think my ability to root out foolishness is truly a gift.
As you read about the two above news events did you not grasp the foolish words? If you missed them, do not feel badly. That’s why you have me.
I am here and I am ready to serve.
Would I kid u?
