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Thursday 14 February 2008

A man, a legend, a way of life.

Thank you Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang for your contributions and clever songs. May the flow of hilairity never dwindle! I have renewed enthusiasm thanks to your support and I'm looking forward to a healthy battle of wits. Mr Bang's songs will soon be archived in The Betta Songbook link to the right....

I printed out a micro-copy of "Born to swim wild" for Diablo and stuck it in his ever-growing bubble nest, which is all he seems to care about these days. He's obsessed with it's construction and I'm beginning to think that something more than fishy is going on under there. The loitering, the sluggish tails, the murmering! It's got to stop! I noticed a pamphlet at Fish 4 U titled "Ten signs your fish is a MasterBetta" and decided to pay them a visit. Finally, I have an excuse to drop in with a decent question to ask for once. Although, word on the street is that my name and corresponding photo has been seen on a list behind the Cash Register and has been put there for any new employee needing a "heads up". Fair enough, but a little excessive if you ask me, but more about that later. So to avoid any trouble I'll ask my old friend Xavier to see about the pamphlet.

Xavier Allzon LaFiesta is a fearless chap and founded the radical political group "BETTAQUALITY!". He spends most of his time on the streets of Washington D.C. badgering politicians (usually on their lunch hour) for legislative change in favor of Betta fish. Anything from Betta voting rights, health care, endangered species requests and so on. He claims to hold the record for the longest march in history on Capitol Hill which he did solo for 367 days back '97. For the most part he is considered a public nuisance and should have been locked up years ago for his relentless civil disobedience. But Xavier managed to charm the pants off the media and this circus act turned him into a tabloid darling and A-list celebrity in the Betta community. He has a thick latino accent, is obsessed with pirates, and was born with natural optimism which accounts for his unusual stamina in the uphill battles he chooses to fight on The Hill. He's short of nothing except maybe a good speech writer to help him address members at the next BNC (the Betta National Convention of course). In the whirl wind that is Xavier, he is noticed for his tendancy to lose track and jabber on about whatever excites him at that moment.

I expect Xavier to glide into Fish 4 U and within minutes have my name taken off that pesky list and on to the board of directors.

Mi amigo Xavier Alzon LaFiesta



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Be Carefull !

I saw this guy's picture in the Post Office!

Mister Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Anonymous said...

Moneypenny. I read "Damage Control and a Second Chance" to: Stalin, my silver dollar, Obama, my puffer fish, and Hillary, my knif fish. They make-up the ruling class(dictators) in my own aquarium. They seem to sense you are trying to forment a revolution. They are quite comfortable living in a marxist/socialist environment having their ever need taken care of by Big Brother(me) and they don't mind at all having BB watching them constantly. Hillary (my knifefish) loves to take all the 'peasant bettas' to The Ministry of Love for some torture now and then. Stalin competes with her by allowing the same 'peasant bettas' access to all the vital rewritten history of their species that are on the shelves of the Ministry of Truth right behind the aquarium glass on the left side. I keep them all pacified and submissive by putting a poster of their most loved mass betta murder in the history of the Cubquarian Revolution, Che Gulpveria, on the back wall. I also let Obama, my puffer fish, give them propagana fluff speeches about hope, change and the future (containing no substance of course.) I have also been training them in 'proper mourning' so they will be able to grieve when Fiedal Kingfish dies. So please, Moneypenny, don't start making any more waves! My little commune of fish still believe- 'all fish are created equal....only some fish are created more equal than others.' So please no more subtle talk,or, subliminal messages, about revolution in the name of freedom, Please!

Anonymous said...

Moneypenny. I am sending you a picture of The Worlds Greatest Protestor Of All Time. Here is the link please see for yourself. He has the Record!

We Swift-Betta-Boated his French ass !!

http://www.writersontheloose.com/WOTL/writings/column.cfm?story=35855

Mister Kiss Kiss Bang Bang