Welcome to Doubletake, your daily morning mash-up from Tribune correspondents Jim Oliphant and Jim Tankersley. Part of a balanced breakfast.
Jim Oliphant: So, this morning let’s talk about the coming letdown
Jim Tankersley: I’m too tired to make a joke here. So please tell me, oh, law-degreed one, what that means.
Oliphant: Basic concept. Nothing complicated about it. You don’t need a law degree to understand. . . Bigfoot, do you?
Tankersley: I’m sure a psychology degree helps. What is it about his relationship with his mother that makes him not actually exist?
So what’s this basic letdown concept?
Oliphant: Turns out, that Bigfoot they caught in Georgia. Not real. Not the real Bigfoot. The hunters that found “him” and stuffed him in the freezer, they even had the conjones (Spanish accent here) to hold a press conference…..as if, you know, forensic science never existed.
Here’s the story.
Tankersley: Well, they got paid didn’t they. Presumably more than the cost of the gorilla suit. And they ended up live on CNN.
Oliphant: Bigfoot suit, technically, is the term
Tankersley: My mistake.
Oliphant: But you see where I’m going. I’m done waiting for Obama to make his veep choice. I’m sitting around, time on my hands, not sure what to do with myself. Last night, I cleaned my place! Cleaned it. At night! I even cleaned out my refrigerator. You know what my refrigerator has become? Gitmo for vegetables. It’s where awful things happen to vegetables in small chambers.
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