=== === Mike's Madness #12 === === Season Premier === In Memory of Graham Chapman Good day. I would like to talk about a subject that not all people feel comfortable with. I would like to talk about: Australia. The meer mention of our mates down under raises a chill in the spines of many. Especially when they think of all those sheep. Thousands of them. An ocean of sheep. (Well there's a lot, anyway.) Then there's that dream. That dream where you're on an island. An island of . . . sheep. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm. So innocently they flick their tails to reveal that tight, pink... [C R A C K ! !] "OI! TAKE THAT YA REVOLTIN' PERVERT!" You hit me! You hit me in the mouf! Yes! Where'ver sheep are threatened by (check one) . . . \/ [ ] filthy perverts, [ ] Marxist/Leninist ideology, [ ] great 'unks of Spam, [ ] Apple products, [x] sheep fondlers, . . . 'arry Butler will be there! (Editor's note: This is in no way, shape or form meant to suggest that the Patron Saint of Australia, Harry Butler, would EVER engage in any of the said sheep fondling activities. Not much, anyway.) --- I'm sure the people down in Austrailia readin' this are a tad irked because I portrayed their favorite naturalist (which is almost the Australian equivalent of a saint) as a bit . . . hmmmm . . . "earthy". Well cheer up! I truly do love Harry and the whole of Australia. Great country. 'Specially that lovely collection o' venomous creatures y'all got yourselves there. They was talkin' to some dude down there in Austrailia on National Geographic Explorer (okay, yeah . . . I do actually watch and enjoy Explorer. Closest I'll ever come to actually traveling anywhere neat) and they asked this dude: "How many venomous species of wildlife does Australia posses?" "200," that dude answered in a snap and with a note of pride. But the thing that amazed me was that he answered the question at all. If some dude asked you "How many poisonous species are there in the US?", you'd answer "huh?", because the number of vemomous species residing in the U.S. isn't a point of common knowledge. Not so in Australia. It's like a point of national pride there. You can go to any bar in Australia (and there is quite a number of them) and there'll be some dude who just killed his twentieth Foster's in many minutes, keeping atop his barstool with the grace of a spastic trying to balance on one hand, and belching with such force that you're surprised he doesn't just shoot off his barstool and fly around backwards like some demented NASA project, mouthing off about the potentially lethal wildlife of Balmyland. "OI!" he'll yell to whoever's sober enough to hear him, "Oi! Wot a great country Australia is, 'specially all the deadly fauna stalkin' around! Blimey! Quite a bit of it then, ain't there? You can keep your black widows, and rattle-snakes and Putorican kids with green teeth. Give me a Blue-Ringed Octopus anyday. [BUUUUUURRP!]. BLIMEY! One o' them octo-puses wiped me entire family out! The vicious little basta'd crossed the 1,000 miles of sun-baked desert between Alice Springs and the ocean, at high noon when the temperature was 300c in the shade, in under 1 hour. Then it ripped the side off the house and proceeded to bite us to death . . ." [THUD!] And then someone'll yell: "OI! The Prime Minister fell offa 'is bleedin' barstool again!" ENJOYIN' THE ART GALLERY ------------------------ I went to the Legion of Honor in San Francisco (it's an art gallery) and I noticed how many people are wholly unequipped to take even the most basic pleasure from Art. They mill about, keeping silent, and never express their honest feelings about the paintings. Not me. That's why I've written this article. To help you get the most for whatever exhorbitant fee they charge you to get in the museum. FIRST, KNOW THE RULES! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= And at the last check, those rules were: NO!: - Spittin' Fightin' Barfin' Touchin' yerself (or others!) Stealin' things Makin' noises like Curley. For comparison, here are the rules at the Sydney's Kitch-O-Rama Gallery. NO!: - Abbos EXPRESSING YOUR ADMIRATION -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Don't just regard beautiful works of art with a simple nod. Tell people about 'em! Share your experience with anyone inside hearing range! Let 'em know how much you like the paintings! Example: (after viewing a Barouque painting): "Oi! OI! 'ERE'S A GOOD 'UN, THEN! ROIT NOICE! PLENTY OF TITS!" (after viewing a Dutch Master): "I LOIKE THIS 'UN VERY VERY MUCH! ESPECIALLY THE TITS!" (after viewing a piece of Modern Art): "PISS ARTIST! PISS ARTIST! AND THERE'S NO TITS!" after viewing various 17'th century Venus paintings): "OI! SHE GOT A BIG BUM! NOICE TITS, THO!" (after viewing French ceramics from the age of Louis the XIV): "'ERE'S A NOICE BIT OF KITCH, THEN!" (After viewing Impressionist art): "THIS 'ERE'S A PAINTIN' WIT' A MESSAGE -- AN' THE MESSAGE IS THE FROGGY WOT PAINED THIS SWILLED TOO MUCH CHEAP WINE 'FORE HE STARTED!" Should someone disagree with your views, and suggests you keep them to yourself by uttering some curt comment like "Shut your fucking mouth, ya bastard!," you should hit them very, very hard. Fuckin' art critics. Use your senses! (wot ya got of 'em) -++-++-=+-$+#-_=_++-;..++-/+.=_=--/= Paintings are pleasing to the eyes, but they are equally enjoyable to the nose, fingers or palette. Use ALL your senses when enjoying expensive works of art. Get right up in there and take a great whiff! Ahhh. Or a few licks should really give you the "taste of history" inherent in so many paintings that cost more than $100,000. Farting ------- It's right out. Masturbating ------------ Also frowned upon (usually). Gettin' the boot ---------------- Too often, a fine day at the gallery is cut short by some little facist in a rent-a-cop outfit bootin' ya out because YOU know how to enjoy art and he doesn't. When this happens, you should yell obcenities at the creep until he threatens to call the police. You should then stagger off and urinate on some expensive statue or fountain the museum has foolishly left outside. That'll show 'em. Coming soon![K ------------ Enjoyin' the Symphony Enjoyin' the Ballet Enjoyin' the Theater Enjoyin' the Zoo REALLY enjoyin' the Zoo (12 p. Plain brown wrapper) How to Hire a Defense Attorney Bolero: Music to Masturbate by Having one off while listening to Wagner (personally endorsed by A. Hitler) Caress your Carrot to Rimsky-Korsakov Modest Moussorgsky and the Naughty Girls of Minsk. There will now be a reading from a selected work of classical literature . . . (from Modest Moussorgsky and the Naughty Girls of Minsk): "Please show us your organ, Mr. Moussorgsky," Vannessa pleaded. "Yes! Yes! Show us all your big organ!" the rest joined in. "Well, it's not that big . . ." Modest stammered modestly. "I heard it's the biggest in all pre-communist Russia!" Catherine said. "Even the Czar himself admires it!" Vannessa added. "Yes, and Rasputin has oft commented on its size!" Catherine also added. "It's quite a big organ!" Vannessa also also added. "Bigger than Lenin's?" Catherine asked. "Oh much bigger!" Modest blurted. "Bigger than Marx's?" Vannessa asked in amazement. "Much bigger than any belonging to the founders of modern Communism!" Modest admitted. "Even bigger than Mr. Ed's?" the rest asked with lust dripping in great, oozing drops from their words. "Well . . . let's not get silly." Mr. Ed and Wilbur (3 bob. Over 21 only, please) ----------------- Willllllllburrrrr! That's not a carrot, Willlllburrrrrr! You're not gonna play Vet again, are ya? Oh Willllllburrrrrrrrr, you wait an awful long time before ya ask me t' cough! OWWWWW WILLLLLBURRRRRRRRRRR! Wilbur: Come on, Ed -- let's hear ya whinny! Dear Sirs, I wish to to complain, quite a bit, but no one listens to me. Who fancies a sailor, then? Maggie Thatcher, P.M., P.M.S., B.F.D. Dear Sirs, Why can't we have a gross bit?! I do Maggie! H.R.M. Queen Elizabeth And now for two nice ladies in the spotlight of world politics . . . # 43: A gross bit A gross bit (sung [preferable not aloud or in the hearing range of children] to the theme of the Beverly Hillbillies. I do wholly apologize for this now, because don't think you're gonna be reading this later.) [A-HEM!] Lemme tell ya all a story about a man named Ned Wasn't very bright, but he sure loved givin' head Then one day he was suckin' on some dude, And up from the head comes a bubblin' spooge! Jizz, that is. Cum. African toothpaste. Next thang y'know Ned's got it in his ha'r. Ned got upset an' said 'How'll I gettit outta thar?!' The dude gettin' sucked on said "Leave it up t' me!" Pulled outta Ned and washed it out with pee. Whizz, that is. Piss. Golden showers . . . C R A C K ! ! 'E SHOT ME! 'E shot me in the leg! So anyway, the other day I bought a package called FoxBase. I'd hoped from the namesae there'd be a fox inside. Well . . . Not only was there no fox enclosed, but in the alleged fox's place was 30 disks and the Encylopedia Brittanica (which I later found was the Pocket Edition of the instructions). So . . . . I wrote them a letter to voice my great displeasure. And . . . It looked like this . . . Dear Foxbase People, I would like to complain loudly and in person, but the cost of airfare deprives me of this right and privilege. So I'll complain instead in this letter. I recently purchased an edition of your so-called "fox" base program from a software vendor near my house (Egghead Software on Howe, to be exact. Best prices in town). And when I got it home, I discovered no fox was enclosed. Nor was there a voucher for a vulpine. Or a receipt for a reynard. In fact, apart from tromping down to your office with a loaded M- 16, taking you all hostage and demanding one for your release, I see no way of obtaining a fox via your package. Why is this so? Yours with total lack of malice, Mike Beebe P.S. I sent you something that should give you a laugh and your competition a shudder: a picture of a fox eating a dead racoon I flattened out on Hiway 99 on the way back from Elk Grove the other night. That should give cause for thought to the folks back in Hamsheer next time they try to compare themselves to Foxbase! The nice folks at Foxbase have yet to reply, but I'm expecting a Fox-Gram any day now. Welp, the Thorazine is starting to take effect now. See ya! Wholly caustic humour written by: Mike "Drugs? Me? Never!" Beebe (C) 1989 Yucks for You!