Whether or not you're registered to vote in the 8th District you might want to listen to this stirring campaign address, as you'll surely learn a lot about the Grounds Water Dam project so crucial to the forthcoming election. Unfortunately Mr. Murney couldn't attend in person, but he's sent his personal assistant Robert Benchley to explain it all for you. (Maybe it's just as well for him that Mr. Murney is too ill to see this.) Happily, Mr. Benchley has brought along a list of figures and an illustrated chart to help make things less clear -- which he does with spectacular success, I might add.
Fans of Benchley's nonsense lectures will enjoy this entry, as How to Vote presents the great humorist at the peak of his powers. From the moment he steps up to address the audience he is stumbling over his words, launching into a joke he never finishes and questioning whether "our" candidate will actually win the election. His chart, a confused map of Odney County where the proposed fake dam will be built (the real one, we're told, will be hidden under some bushes), is a riot of nonsensical notations, pointless digressions, and helpful labels such as Proposed Post Office, Mens' Locker Room, Place to Leave Bicycles, and Possible Indians. Oh, and there's that captive balloon he was telling you about!
This is an amusing short for the campaign season or any other time, and it makes as much sense as many actual political speeches. Better still, it's shorter than most.
Fans of Benchley's nonsense lectures will enjoy this entry, as How to Vote presents the great humorist at the peak of his powers. From the moment he steps up to address the audience he is stumbling over his words, launching into a joke he never finishes and questioning whether "our" candidate will actually win the election. His chart, a confused map of Odney County where the proposed fake dam will be built (the real one, we're told, will be hidden under some bushes), is a riot of nonsensical notations, pointless digressions, and helpful labels such as Proposed Post Office, Mens' Locker Room, Place to Leave Bicycles, and Possible Indians. Oh, and there's that captive balloon he was telling you about!
This is an amusing short for the campaign season or any other time, and it makes as much sense as many actual political speeches. Better still, it's shorter than most.
