Once there once
was a boy who enjoyed butter a great deal. He put butter on everything.
And I don't just mean food. He smeared it all over his walls and
on the cat and in his sister's hair and all over his CENSORED.
The boy's mother
would scold him saying, "You really mustn't put butter on your CENSORED.
It will surely do you harm and then you will never be a father like Daddy.
But the boy didn't want to be a father like Daddy. Daddy was a drunkard
and an idiot. The boy wanted nothing out of life beyond his precious,
precious butter. He wanted to cover the world in butter.
Years passed
and the boy grew.
On the outside,
he seemed to shed his butter fetish but inside, deep inside where little
boys keep their dirty, dirty secrets, the boy formed a plan. On his
18th birthday, the boy bought a gun. It was easy for him since he
looked older than he was. He even had a beard. Using the gun,
the boy robbed a bank. He took the money and drove across the border
into Iceland where he hid for many decades. After gaining the trust
of the foolish and simple folk of Reykjavik, Iceland's capitol, the boy
ran for Chancellor. When informed that Iceland was a democracy, he
ran for President instead. The boy easily secured the presidency
with false slogans and promises of CENSORED extensions for everybody.
The boy was a
corrupt and wicked president; he stole and slandered and slithered his
way into being a millionaire. Using this money, he built many space-pods
and filled them with butter. Launching the pods into orbit, the boy
put his diabolical plan into work. He positioned the space-pods strategically
around the world. Soon, each major city had a space-pod filled with
rich, creamy butter hovering thousands of miles above it.
Now, all the
boy had to do was push a big shiny button - a button the colour of egg
shells - and the space-pods would open, dumping gallons and gallons of
butter all over the unsuspecting earthlings. His finger poised over
the button, the boy allowed himself a villainous chuckle. He had
often seen villains in the movies laugh just before the final phase of
their plan was to be put into effect. Unfortunately for those movie
villains, this was usually where the hero would burst in and save the day.
"Not so fast!"
Batman would say, hands on his hips. Or maybe it would be Keanu Reeves
in tight leather pants clearly showing off his CENSORED and carrying
a machinegun. "Not so fast, dude" he would say. "Whoa!"
Shaking his head
to clear these thoughts, the boy reached again to push the button which
would unleash the ocean of butter and drench the world in cholesterol-laden
goodness. But, before he could reach the button, the boy felt a sudden
burning sensation in his CENSORED. He pulled down his trousers
and saw to his shock, amazement and utter revulsion that his CENSORED
was inflamed and irritated!
"Oh no!" he exclaimed
in terror. Then, he remembered what his mother had told him once
about putting butter on his CENSORED. Those words which had
seemed so unimportant then now haunted him from another time far away and
long dead.
The boy stopped.
Was this what he really wanted? Did he really want to cover the world
in butter? What if everyone suffered the same fate as his beloved
CENSORED? Did the boy really want to be responsible for such
a thing?
"No!" he said
aloud, banging his fist on the console. "No! I do NOT want
to cover the world in butter. What I will do instead is give the
butter to the people in reasonable doses. I will provide butter for
their popcorn, their cornbread and their baked potatoes. I will not
put it on their cats and their sisters and their CENSOREDs.
I will not force butter upon anyone. I will give only to those who
desire and deserve butter. For I see now that to have butter is a
privilege and an honour. I have been a fool."
The boy bowed
his head in shame. And he wept. He wept and wept until the
floor was slippery with his tears. And as the boy turned to leave
the Space-Pod Control Chamber, he slipped on his tears, wildly spun around,
fell over and smashed his CENSORED right into the big milky white
button.
The End