IVIV page 140

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 02:00:40 CDT 2009


People I know really did scrape banana peels,
and bake and smoke the residue.
Not me.  My mom mostly didn't work outside the home,
and she owned the oven.


Okay, so if Bigfoot is getting his bananas free,
and it's ostensibly a shakedown of the proprietor
which he (the proprietor) accepts because he
is selling "Yellow Haze" which is in fact, not illegal...

Doc is perplexed.  He is such an innocent, and apparently
hasn't watched any number of old movies where the
policeman takes perks for granted.

However, slight twist: "If it's legal, then so is
taking my cut."
Aha - are we to assume that Bigfoot does NOT
take a cut of illegal drugs?  Is this why he later does
what he does with that thing...because he himself
- like Zoyd, in a way - has retained a vestige of
symbolic purity?  so he can fob it off to Doc without
a qualm, but would not feel right in a hands-on role?

obviously, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQz_s8Yw1Us



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