MAN TRAPPED IN CHOCOLATE VAT
By Peter Fredson
August 18, 2006
Every day I go through the Google News items. Today I found several items that intrigued me. After reading about Iraq War failures, the casualty lists, the threats against Iran and watching John Bolton, now we can listen to all the nasty details of the murder of little JonBenet, day after day. I also read that a Black Female Judge told George Bush that he had to stop his wire-tapping. reminding him that we have no hereditary kings.
Naturally the erstwhile Emperor protested vigorously and we will now be subjected to the rhetoric and insolence of Attorney-General Gonzalez until the matter reaches the Supreme Court, where we will find out if the judges that Bush appointed will repay him with a poetic defense of the unitary executive theory
But I was most struck by a news item simplistic, but beautiful in its simplicity, and very satisfying.
Today, in Kenosha, Wisconsin a man working in a factory with ingredients for making chocolate, was assigned to unplug a vat of chocolate. However he became stuck in the quicksand-like material and couldn't get out. So a combination of police and firemen came to pull him out. Undoubtedly we can now unleash a torrent of chocolate jokes. But I thought of one that seemed appropriate.
On the Dick and Tom Smothers show some years ago, Tom got stuck in a vat of chocolate and began hollering "Fire, Fire." After his brother Dick pulled him out, he was asked, "Why in the world did you holler "fire?'" And Tom said, to my delight, "Well, if I had hollered `Chocolate' who would have come running?"