I quite enjoyed this Shouts and Murmurs piece by Paul Rudnick. Wish I thought of it first.
RYAN: And I think it looks great. Now, what about global warming?RANDY: Yo, dawg, when you say "global warming" do you mean, like, sitting by the fire with your lady and getting down to a spicy slow jam by my man Barry White?
PAULA: Oh, oh, or do you mean, like, actually warming the globe? Like toasting one? Wouldn't it melt?
SIMON: He means, you idiots, that because of human greed we're in very real danger of ending life as we know it.
Will the madness never end? I wonder what the conversation would run like if an individual like Bush weighed in as well...
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