Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Dorothy was my neighbor

Often when I tell people I'm from Kansas, they often bring up the cinematic classic, The Wizard of Oz. It's something I'm used to, but not particularly proud of. Now there are several famous lines from that movie. “There’s no place like home.” “Somewhere over the rainbow.” Of course my favorite is “Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore!” Classic, just classic. Except, in my opinion, Judy Garland read that line totally wrong. I’d be saying, “Toto, toto, WE’RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE!!! WHOO HOO!!” The problem is, you can’t really enjoy Oz because you’re on the Wicked Witch’s hit list for smashing your house on her sister. I think, you know in order to kind of smooth things over, my first order of business would be to open up a Krispy Kreme donut shop. Right there. Just off the yellow brick road next to where the short people live. It’d be perfect. All of the citizens of Oz would be instantly addicted to the highest quality breakfast pastry of the late 20th Century. I’d have glazed donuts, sprinkled donuts, and I’d even have a “fly through” window for the flying monkeys to pick up their banana crème filled donuts. And I bet the Wicked Witch of the East would just totally forget about that whole sister-crushing incident and drop that whole being evil thing and start offering rides to the Krispy Kreme for the citizens of Emerald City, because it’s like a three day walk. Yes, harmony would be restored to Oz, of course it would mean the demise of the Lollipop Guild, but all’s fair in a capitalist system.

12 Comments:

At 3:20 PM, Blogger cade said...

well said.

i tend to just punch people in the throat when they ask where dorothy is.

your's is better.

 
At 3:26 PM, Blogger james said...

Forget Krispy Creme John. C'mon, you've been to Boston now. You know Dunkin' Donuts is where it's at.

 
At 3:30 PM, Blogger Dale said...

I laugh out loud every time I see that pic of Cade with the nerf gun

I'm not taking anything away from Dunkin' Donuts, but in Oz, Krispy Kreme would work better because their franchise opportunities are less restrictive

When in Boston/NE, Kristin and I visited Dunkin' Donuts no fewer than 5 times in 3 different states.
But you can't beat a warm Krispy Kreme.

 
At 3:47 PM, Blogger Dale said...

lose some weight, FATTY!
gosh!

 
At 4:14 PM, Blogger commish said...

at least you're not opening a Dunkin Donut crap factory. Stinkin' East Coast crap!

 
At 4:38 PM, Blogger Veritas Media said...

Do you think the crew gets Krispy Kreme or Dunkin' Donuts on Survivor?

 
At 4:44 PM, Blogger Dale said...

Probably they get cheese curds along with autographed Jeff Probst head shots that they can auction on EBay

 
At 4:51 PM, Blogger Veritas Media said...

Don't even think that we'd have a repeat of the amber and chocolate episode if they were offering cheese curds!

 
At 4:59 PM, Blogger commish said...

I'd have rather eaten Corn Flakes in pee, than Dunkin' Donuts!

 
At 5:43 PM, Blogger cade said...

i miss joe's donuts.

 
At 6:25 PM, Blogger james said...

I'll take the tree

 
At 8:29 AM, Blogger Dale said...

Joe's! I'm starting to yearn...

 

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