On Martin Luther King Day, and we're roundly ashamed of ourselves. We could have done something to honor the memory of that great man. Instead we laid on the sofa and paged through Mrs. UF's "Victoria's Secret" catalogue, while sipping at a coffee. That was in the morning. In the afternoon we vowed to do something MLK related, but instead returned to the sofa and the "Victoria's Secret" catalogue, to see if there were any pages we'd missed. There weren't. Come evening we steadfastly resolved to see if there was anything about the life of MLK on television, but before we could pick up the remote control our attention was captured by the aforementioned "Victoria's Secret" catalogue, to which we returned yet again, this time to brush up on the buttocks we mightn't have paid sufficient attention to the first two times around.
We don't know why we're such a bad American, we ignore MLK Day and we're opposed to the death penalty and we don't even fly an American flag from our balcony. Of course there are lots of Americans who are far worse than us who don't think MLK even deserves a holiday, what a bunch of racist losers. We know he deserves a holiday, a two-day holiday even, one for us to spend looking at the "Victoria's Secret" catalogue, and another one for us to actually get off our ass and do something that pays honor to the greatest American of all time. Or to spend yet another day looking at the "Victoria's Secret" catalogue, that's what a piss-poor American we are.
Had to laugh hard about this. Even more than I had to laugh about Flopsie the dog.
Great one!
Posted by: Jan Martin Löhndorf | January 17, 2012 at 04:54 PM
You have a dream! Some people's dream is to free mankind of slavery and injustice, prejudice and cruelty; other people like to lie in the couch ogling underwear models. Who is to say which dream is the bigger of the two?
Say, that government of yours... are they by any chance interested in employing a Dutch-speaking jack-of-all-trades? For intelligence, or cheese-trade-related matters?
Posted by: Martijn | January 18, 2012 at 06:19 AM
I watched this for MLK Day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMo0c_o72VE
Posted by: Marc | January 18, 2012 at 06:12 PM
That's a dream too, Marc! I'd like to see that film as well. And I want a MLK Day! Is everybody having MLK Day over there? Why can't we have one. We had an assassinated politician (Pim Fortuyn). Okay, he was a power-drunk, crazy, bold, gay xenophobic fascist (they exsist) but a holiday in his memory would have been welcome. And where's my "Victoria's Secret"? No, these 'cultural riches' or Europe are highly overestimated.
Posted by: Martijn | January 19, 2012 at 04:15 AM
I know just how that guy feels, Marc. And it seems like a nice MLK day observance to me, watching it. Martijn, in order to have an MLK day, you have to have a history of slavery. Luckily, we here in the U.S. are so fortunate. You foolish Europeans never caught on, and so are denied the pleasure of a holiday from work. As for Victoria's Secret, it's an American tradition, sort of like the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. We Americans can't help it we're lucky!
Posted by: UF MIKE | January 19, 2012 at 10:41 AM
Took a while to realise, its set in my home town. Can't say I ever met the guy
Posted by: Mar7k | January 19, 2012 at 10:01 PM
You have a dreamalele.
Posted by: Martijn | January 22, 2012 at 09:53 AM
What's a dreamalele?
Posted by: UF MIKE | January 24, 2012 at 09:29 AM
Ha ha... good of you to ask. A dream, yukelele style. I came across the word banjolele and fell in love with the wordending.
Posted by: Martijn | January 24, 2012 at 10:44 AM
What are you saying,were there no cute black models in te VS catalog? racist bastards!
Posted by: rick piel | January 25, 2012 at 07:53 PM