Mrs. Kobritz
I was walking to my car the other night when a journey that began in 1980 suddenly came to an end. I'd been thinking about Blanche Knott's series of books called Truly Tasteless Jokes. I don't know why they sold these books to us in school, but there were great jokes about all sorts of things kids like: abortions, Arabs, Protestants, rape, etc. One of them was:
Q. What do you call a leper in a bathtub?
A. Soup
And another was:
"Did you hear there was a face-off at the leper colony hockey game?"
I was thinking about the books because I was looking forward to seeeing the original version of The Fog again. I hear the remake is useless, but John Carpenter's original is just creepy enough to withstand 25 years of increasing "sophistication" as well as the presence of John Houseman in one of the many check-cashing roles with which he ended his career. The Fog is all about vengeful lepers.
So you can imagine my surprise when I saw this billboard for the L.A. Kings which made the city's hockey team look like lepers about to go for a face-off.
Q. What do you call a leper in a bathtub?
A. Soup
And another was:
"Did you hear there was a face-off at the leper colony hockey game?"
I was thinking about the books because I was looking forward to seeeing the original version of The Fog again. I hear the remake is useless, but John Carpenter's original is just creepy enough to withstand 25 years of increasing "sophistication" as well as the presence of John Houseman in one of the many check-cashing roles with which he ended his career. The Fog is all about vengeful lepers.
So you can imagine my surprise when I saw this billboard for the L.A. Kings which made the city's hockey team look like lepers about to go for a face-off.
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by Marty Barrett at Saturday, October 22, 2005
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