Oh for God's sake! Can't you get through a whole damn week without coming over here to bug me?
Well I'm sorry, Mr. Cope. But stuff keeps coming up and I want to get your take on it.
Why? Don't you have a "take" on it yourself?
Sort of, yeah. But my takes are pretty much like everyone else's takes.
So, are you saying my takes are more interesting than other people's?
Um... either more interesting or more stupid. Sometimes I can't tell the difference.
Well thank you, Sonny. I'd hate to think I was getting predictable. So what's come up that you want my take on?
OK then, it's about this Deflategate...
No! Absolutely not! Uh-uh! I will not waste my time on another f***ing football controversy.
But the Super Bowl is this weekend, and this is an important thing to think about, don't you think? I mean, we're talking about the biggest, most spectacular event to happen every year in America, and one of the teams in it might be cheaters. Don't you think that's worth thinking about?
OK, Junior, here's what I think. They should either call off the f***ing Super Bowl, or delay it, pending the results of the investigation.
That's just stupid!
Ah! How do you know it's not just interesting? I thought you said you couldn't tell the difference.
Well I could that time. They couldn't call off the Super Bowl. Or delay it, either. All that money and planning and... and advertisements and ticket sales and plane reservations and half-time preparations and... why, it's... it's just stupid to think they could change that in any way without, like... like...
Without tearing a huge rip in the fabric of our economics, our entertainment habits, our society itself and the expectations we have of it functioning smoothly without us personally having to sacrifice anything in the pursuit of truth and justice?
Yeah. Something like that.
So the fact that someone might have cheated to get there turns into a relatively minor matter in comparison with the damage it would do should there be an appropriate punishment commensurate with the lip service our society pays to the concepts of honor and integrity and fair play?
Uuuuh... yeah. I think that's what I think.
OK, then.…
Well I'm sorry, Mr. Cope. But stuff keeps coming up and I want to get your take on it.
Why? Don't you have a "take" on it yourself?
Sort of, yeah. But my takes are pretty much like everyone else's takes.
So, are you saying my takes are more interesting than other people's?
Um... either more interesting or more stupid. Sometimes I can't tell the difference.
Well thank you, Sonny. I'd hate to think I was getting predictable. So what's come up that you want my take on?
OK then, it's about this Deflategate...
No! Absolutely not! Uh-uh! I will not waste my time on another f***ing football controversy.
But the Super Bowl is this weekend, and this is an important thing to think about, don't you think? I mean, we're talking about the biggest, most spectacular event to happen every year in America, and one of the teams in it might be cheaters. Don't you think that's worth thinking about?
OK, Junior, here's what I think. They should either call off the f***ing Super Bowl, or delay it, pending the results of the investigation.
That's just stupid!
Ah! How do you know it's not just interesting? I thought you said you couldn't tell the difference.
Well I could that time. They couldn't call off the Super Bowl. Or delay it, either. All that money and planning and... and advertisements and ticket sales and plane reservations and half-time preparations and... why, it's... it's just stupid to think they could change that in any way without, like... like...
Without tearing a huge rip in the fabric of our economics, our entertainment habits, our society itself and the expectations we have of it functioning smoothly without us personally having to sacrifice anything in the pursuit of truth and justice?
Yeah. Something like that.
So the fact that someone might have cheated to get there turns into a relatively minor matter in comparison with the damage it would do should there be an appropriate punishment commensurate with the lip service our society pays to the concepts of honor and integrity and fair play?
Uuuuh... yeah. I think that's what I think.
OK, then.…