Oddly Enough Blog
News, but not the serious kind
The Runway’s Got Talent!
It’s the same old story, Lamar. We’ve got a major fashion show today, but we can’t afford to pay professional models. You always manage to come through with models on the cheap. Any luck?
Don’t worry, Boss, I got us a good group today, and they’re free.
FREE? Huzzah! But how did you work that?
Oh. Well, they’re under the impression we’re having a reality TV talent show, so they each get to do a little “act” on the runway.
What? What the hell kind of “acts” do they do while modeling our designs, Lamar?
Uh, Tiffany will break out in a little tap dance. It’s very impressive to see in her stiletto heels, Boss.
Sorry, we’re all tapped out…
I love it when real news stories are goofier than anything I could make up. It makes my job so much easier.
There is a United Nations ban on the sale of luxury goods to North Korea, see, and we’ve learned that Italy has foiled an attempt to violate that ban.
And what luxury goods were the North Koreans tying to buy? Lamborghini cars? Remy Martin cognac? Bulgari watches?
No, they were trying to get their mitts on “high-quality tap dancing shoes.” I am not making this up.
Our story on this said it was “not clear how the tap shoes might fit into North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s lavish lifestyle, which includes grandiose stage performances by North Korean performers.”
That’s not the only thing that isn’t clear. Here’s a country that has a nuclear weapons program, but it doesn’t have the technology to make its own tap dance shoes? Excuse me? You’ve got leather, you’ve got metal, you’ve got ball-peen hammers, right? What’s stopping you?
I prefer the Scottish brogue, BG, for obvious reasons…
ooooo!! Mary Janes, I love those shoes too..
Like I always say, nothing like retail therapy to brighten a dark day..
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