Craig’s Left Boot May Also Have Been Implicated
Posted by Moose on August 30th, 2007. Filed under: Travel.One of the first things I saw on Vashon Island was a large, hand-painted sign reading, “Philip for Fire Commissioner.”
Vashon is a small island in Puget Sound, a 30-minute ferry ride from downtown Seattle. I don’t know precisely how many people live here or how big it is but not many and not very. Deer graze out of people’s flower pots, and you can pick blackberries while watching the sun set over the water. It’s the perfect place to run for office on a first name basis.
We passed Philip’s rival a few minutes later. His sign read, “Craig for Fire Commissioner.” I began imagining smear tactics for Philip’s campaigns. “It’s rumored that Craig may have once kicked a cat. Do you want YOUR Fire Commissioner to have possibly once kicked a cat?”
When I learned that Philip and Craig are actually last names, my pretty little dream popped like an elderly balloon. It was a bit of a blow, I don’t mind telling you. But then I covered vanilla ice cream with luscious, just-picked blackberries and decided to forgive Philip’s shameless deception.
Though it might be awhile longer before Craig forgives Philip for the blatant slander involving a stray tomcat named Mr. Kibble.
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August 31st, 2007 at 12:13 am
The idea, Priceless, now I think I am going to make fake signs and put them in random places around my town saying stuff like that. Oh this is going to be great!
August 31st, 2007 at 9:18 am
*LOL*
September 4th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
I’d really only believe in Philip’s smear campaign if he said “I’m Philip and I approve this message.” at the end of each cat-kicking ad.
September 10th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
I had once considered buying a bunch of gay pride rainbow decals and sticking them on the cars in the parking lot of the conservative Christian church that I grew up attending.
I wondered how long it would take most of them to notice, and how many of them would actually know what it meant.
Slander? Or immature prank?