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To: TheBigB

When having peanut butter is a criminal act, only criminals will have peanut butter.


129 posted on 01/04/2005 8:53:06 AM PST by rlmorel
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To: rlmorel

Remember the prophetic words of New York Mayor Emmet P. Cudd, as memorialized in Jean Merrill's definitive account of The "Pushcart War" which erupted in New York in 2006:

Emmett P. Cudd—who was already mayor and did not want to lose his job—made his famous “Peanut Butter Speech.”

MAYOR CUDD: (to audience) Friends and New Yorkers. New York is one of the biggest cities in the U.S.A. We are proud of that fact. What makes a city big? Big business, naturally! And what is the difference between big business and small business? I’ll tell you. If you order fourteen cartons of peanut butter, you are running a small business. If you order four hundred cartons of peanut butter, you are running a big business.
Fourteen cartons of peanut butter, you can get delivered in a station wagon. But for four hundred cartons of peanut butter, you need a truck. And you need a big truck. Big trucks mean progress. My opponent, Archie Love, is against trucks. He is, therefore, against progress. Maybe he is even against peanut butter!

NARRATOR 2: Very few people wanted to be against progress. No one wanted to be against peanut butter! And everyone wanted to be proud of their city, because they always had been.

NARRATOR 3: Thus, Archie Love did not get elected, and the trucks kept getting bigger.


135 posted on 01/04/2005 8:59:53 AM PST by Flash Bazbeaux ("I'll have the moo goo gai pan without the pan, and some pans.")
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