Gus is usually a sweet-tempered guy......

My girlfriend wants to hang out...here she is, Bridget:

Pretty cute for someone er, er, of her stature.

Perfect partner for you, too.

What's the deal? This lady is rather beautiful, and shouldn't be made fun of. Well, nobody should. Even, oh god, Gus.

Wait, wait, do I mean that?

Thinking...

Right, where was I............

Slappy's appearance shocks the waitress so much that she just opens up in his general direction. I hit the floor as Gus lets the deep fryer have it with the full clip. Slappy's gets off a round, but the kick of the pistol knocks him flat on his ass backwards into the restrooms.

The oil in the fryer has lit up. Sirens are going off, some of the other citizens are now panicking and screaming. There's an off-duty trooper drawing a bead on Gus, I have to hit him from behind with a chair. Then the restroom door opens again and Slappy's like got the full-protection suit thing going....



..which only means one thing. Teargas.

Sure enuff, two canisters hit the deck. Everyone's fighting to get out now. The fire in the kitchen has reached the gas-cylinders at the back of the restuarant, by the time we get out and across the road the whole Western-themed shopping centre is like history....



Gus for some stupid reason, shoves in another clip and shoots up a passing dirigible:

Senseless, but it DID help provide us with enough confusion to get out of town...

Well....I think you can make fun of Bridget. Not only is she a midget, she's a porn star.

So here's the kicker.

We get to the State line and there's a cop stopping traffic.

"Hello. There's been a bit of a fire and an explosion at a diner a few miles back from here. You fellahs wouldn't happen to know about this?"

Gus looks right back at him, "You mean that Western-themed burger joint?".

"Yep. You wouldn't have anything to do with that now?".

Gus is still straight faced, "No, Sir. It was on fire when we went in!".

The cop steps back, mouth open. Gus hits the gas and we're off. Man, we laughed about that all the way to Tijuana.

Oof, really, what else the f has Bridget to do?

On Venice Ocean Front walk, where I must have paced a thousand miles over time, I had a passing acquaintance... for some of those miles.

I would walk by him on my beach walks, a fellow with no arms or legs. We waved (he had thalidomide flippies) and we both said something.. though we never did have a several sentence conversation. Just one or two.
Yes, he collected money and I gave if I had money in my pocket that day.

I think he had pals that helped him to live his life there, but, yikes..

I question myself now for not stopping one day and talking more, but then, who the h/do I think I am, that he would want to?

osso, I highly recommend Katherine Dunn's 'Geek Love' as reading material. Here is a review with questions as well:

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/geek_love1.asp

Can you tell me why I should look at this recommendation?

It is a good book that probes the question that perhaps we are all (freaks and 'norms') more similar than we may think. I'm not making a joke here, I really loved the book.

In fact, I'm rereading it for the third time.

I agree we are all freaks and brothers, but I see all these jokes at the "freakies" expense. I think the fellow I mentioned had a horrible sort of death, but am not sure, and that is icky in itself, that I don't remember adamantly that I read that.

Bridget may well have been a prostitute, I think the guy I mentioned had some involvement in all that, but not sure, it is only one mention somewhere that I remember now.
How is this all funny?

It's not funny. Bridget happens to be very comfortable with her career actually, in a strange way, it empowers her. Who are we to judge?

It's brought up as funny.

Ok, who knows why it's brought up.

You'd think I'd want to edit you guys. No, not really.

Riffs seem to be pretty dependent on victim, though, even as the victim works to survive.

Umm, I think all that needs to be said is that Slappy brought it up. Perhaps it should have been ignored.

OK, you're right, Slappy brought it up, and you said you can make fun of her, she is a midget and porn star.

Yaaaaack.

Ok, enough.

Back to the inestimable Gus.

I didn't bring anything up, just put a picture of her.

But imagine if you could put her head on a normal person's body? She'd be hot.