"Mister President, on the occasion of your birthday this lovely lady is not only pulchritudinous but punctual." I just realized that no-one has ever called me /any/ of those things.
In the alternate shared-world of the stories in the /Wild Cards/ series of books, JFK lived to become very old, and Marylin Monroe lived till the 1980s, when she was murdered practically as an afterthought by a conspiracy led by cheap political supervillains. I don't remember exactly, but I think they had her drowned in a swimming pool because she threatened to open her trap about something that embarrassed them. She had played a character in a movie whose (fictional} real life character provided her with secret insight into the conspiracy, and she was sympathetic to the good guys, so she had to go.
"Mister President, on the occasion of your birthday this lovely lady is not only pulchritudinous but punctual." I just realized that no-one has ever called me /any/ of those things.
ReplyDeleteIn the alternate shared-world of the stories in the /Wild Cards/ series of books, JFK lived to become very old, and Marylin Monroe lived till the 1980s, when she was murdered practically as an afterthought by a conspiracy led by cheap political supervillains. I don't remember exactly, but I think they had her drowned in a swimming pool because she threatened to open her trap about something that embarrassed them. She had played a character in a movie whose (fictional} real life character provided her with secret insight into the conspiracy, and she was sympathetic to the good guys, so she had to go.