Because Everyone Knows at Least One Bad Penny Who Keeps Turning Up

Conversations among Fooleryland siblings are almost always (by order of the courts) long-distance in nature. Occasionally we pick up the phone, but often we use e-mail, sometimes texts. Had a strung-out e-mail conversation the other day with the Fooleryland brothers, about a dude we used to know. I shall call him Jarvis Badpenny. While I haven't actually seen Jarvis in years, evidence of his existence is everywhere. I think he sheds his DNA around town. He and his Badpenny family are like VISA -- they're everywhere you want to be. When I least expected it, Facebook told me I ought to be Jarvis's friend. And told me, and told me, and told me. So I told my brothers.

         

Laurie:  This struck me as funny.

 

Mantel Man:  Just in case I needed another reason not to have a Facebook page...

 

Bocci:  The Badpenny Factor even reaches into Facebook

 

Laurie:  Yes it does, apparently, though this is new. I asked for the Badpenny-free Facebook version. It's just like MSG -- oh, they promise it's completely MSG-free, but you know better.

Bocci:  We should call Zuckerberg and propose an “Inbred Facebook."

 

Laurie:  Wait, I thought this WAS Inbred Facebook?

 

Mantel Man:  Is The Badpenny Factor anything like The O'Reilly Factor -- only more intellectual?

"...and the next time I see you, I'm gonna try not to laugh in your lil' inbred Facebook."

 

Bocci:  The Badpenny Factor….is unfortunately more realistic. But, they don’t have their own show, yet.

 

Laurie:  They used to. I think it was called "The Maury Povich Show."

Bocci:  You weren’t supposed to know. Orland residents are automatically qualified…

InbredFacebook. Coming soon to a computer near you -- or, if you live near Fooleryland, it's already here.

Comments

[foolery]

I KNOW! Farcebook blows sometimes. But then again . . . *sigh*.   ; )

[Jason]

And the worst part of it is that there is now no way to delete those suggestions! They just STAY there on that page and taunt you every time you look at the page to see if by some chance you really need any more bad pennies from the past!

[Daryl]

I know Jarvis's girlfriend, no, not his wife, his girlfriend .. she keeps turning up on blogs across the Blister range ... wonky tooth and all.

[Mantel Man]

Oh, come on - NOTHING is funnier to the British than to Americans. Not even Monty Python.

"It must be terrible, being a professional killer with colitis. They must hear you coming!"

[foolery]

Oh, thats FUNNY, MZ. Funnier still to the British, Im sure.  : )

Thanks for the laugh! -- Laurie

[MomZombie]

Some dude named Randy Woody (I"m not kidding, but I think he might be.) keeps turning up as a "person I may know" on Facebook. I'll be he wears a codpiece, too.