April Fools Day Open Season Thread
What’s not to love about a day to celebrate the fools of our lives, as the turns.
A report in today’s Hour, the recent influx of Euro bearing investment bankers is threatening gentrification in Norwalk’s urban areas, displacing young white professionals, many of who have settled into the area for as long as five years.
The enormous power of the Euro, which a single coin currently buys 10 US dollars, 4 Canadian dollars and a partridge in a pear tree, has enabled EU citizens to buy anything made in China and shipped the US at a great discount, including real estate.
Thomas Hooker, a recent emigre from the UK with ties to Connecticut said that he agreed with John Cleese, who recently exhorted Her Soveriegn Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to revoke America’s independance. Cleese said, “Your new prime minister (The Right Honourable Gordon Brown, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders) will appoint a minister for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.”
According to Hooker, since Norwalk has failed to maximize livable space, Europeans will continue buying up real estate and converting strip malls, car dealerships and McMansions into roundabouts and open fields.
“It’s the least we could do,” explained Hooker, “the Algonquian tribes got a raw deal when we first got here, so we’re now trying to even the score. The Pequots also got a raw deal, but the casino is doing okay, but the access to the casino is impeded by all these little towns.”
“There’s nothing we can do,” Chief Executive Officer of Norwalk Inc. Robert Smythe said. “A few million a year salary is just not enough to afford to live here now that the Europeans have paid 15 times more than we did for anything. I used to be able to buy a fair trade latte around the corner from where I live, but now they’ve replaced it with an art museum and five English gardens. They’ve even added sidewalks.”
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