sock varnish crimes
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at 12:36AM Hey, it's evening. That means Palinode and Schmutzie ain't doing nothing. Nothing. But the television's on. Palinode enters the living room through the hole in the wall.
Palinode: What are you watching?
Schmutzie: Law and Order SVU.
Palinode: Oh yeah. Law and Order. Sock... Varnishing... Unit.
(Pause)
Schmutzie: That's my favourite one of all.
Palinode: Every week? There's a crime at the sock varnishing factory.
Schmutzie: Mariska Hargitay plays a hot sock varnishing investigator.
Palinode: I love it when they say "Let's check out the sock varnishing factory" and there's that dun-dun sound? In the first half of the show they track down the criminal, then they go to the sock varnish prosecutor and his brunette assistant.
Schmutzie: If the formula works, why mess with it?
Palinode: And it's always ethically complicated. For the factory floor workers, for management, for the cops and prosecutors, and especially for the customers.
Schmutzie: I feel bad for the customers.
Palinode: They're trying to slip on a new pair of socks and Wham! varnish. That's the real crime.
Schmutzie: These are their stories.
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Reader Comments (5)
why'd you go for varnishing and not vanishing? i'd imagine there'd be a lot more sock vanishing cases.
i guess sock varnishing is one of those cottage industries i won't ever understand.
also, sadly, i've tagged you for a http://www.sporky.net/wp_archives/2007/07/25/god-damned-taggers/" REL="nofollow">meme.
DUN! DUN!
My dog (when i had one) knew it was lunchtime by the Dun! Dun! He'd hear that and take the stairs in a single leap.
I sometimes wish I could do that without twisting my ankle.
At work I have a code called "Emotional Crime Victim". Every time I write it I sing 'Dun Dun' in my head. (or out loud, who am I kidding?)
HAHAHAHA ah aha haha ha! Stupid Facebook. I've been missing out.