Wednesday, November 19, 2003

CAMPUS LIFE
Ahhh....The University...Where intellectualism seeps from the pore of each and every person in their pursuit of the higher truths of humankind. Where opinions are discussed and debated like philosophers of old. Where Moses can stand on the wall of the Student Union with his buddy Mini-Me Moses and pass out the rheteric du jour. [Note: Blogs need audio/visual components. At this point you would have heard a big record-scratch sound, followed by a rapid zoom-in and a Scooby-Doo voice saying “Huhhhhhhh???”]

Yes indeed. Moses climbed the wall. I’m walking back from lunch and here is this guy on the porch ledge of the Student Union. I guess he’s Moses because he’s got the Moses robe and the Moses beard (Version 2.0 -– post Mount Sinai, where, in the movie, he not only got ten commandments, but he got a set and a perm as well. In addition to the garb, he's also standing there with two tablets (I’m guessing cardboard). Walking around on the cement veranda is another guy similarly dressed, tablet-less, talking to a couple of girls. Mini-Me Moses? I don’t know. I decided not to get too close, because frankly, I wasn't in the mood. Thinking back on it now, I should have set a bush on fire. That would have really gotten their message out. Anyway, squinting hard, one of the tablets says something about "Remember the first Amendment". The other tablet I can't read, but I do see the word "religion" on there somewhere.

"What's up with these guys?" Asks GramTuna.
"Dunno," I say. Reading what little I can from 75 feet, I add, "I can't tell whom I'm oppressing today."
"The problem is," says GramTuna, "he looks like Santa."
I bust a gut. "With stone tablets??" I ask.
"Well, I don't know," she says.
We walk in silence for a while. I finally say, "Well, if it's Moses, maybe he doesn't know the difference between amendments and commandments. Maybe he's confused."
"That's for sure," says GramTuna.
"Besides," I say, "In the first place, the nut cases are supposed to be on the south side of the river, not the north side of the river. And, if he was really Moses, he would have been packing a rife."
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