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Dead Rights Party, XV (conclusion)

10/23/2019

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Ms. Ladrona: We’re back at the first DRiP debate, coming to you live from the Watering Hole, located in the nether regions of Hotel Adios in Small Southwestern City. Tonight, our two participants are Mr. Ab Ennis, candidate for president, and Mr. Orville Slack IV, his running mate. Mr. Slack, one, could you tell us what adversity you have overcome, and two, how you overcame it?

Mr. Slack: Yeah, Ah sure cane. Yuh see, Ah was browt up in Hillbilla Countra, which is ’bout as ad-verse uh piece uh real ’state as a mayun can in-habit.

Ms. Ladrona: And how did you overcome this adversity?

Mr. Slack: By movin’ ta Smawl Southwesten Cita.

Ms. Ladrona: Could you say more?

Mr. Slack: Ah could, but Ah won’t.

Ms. Ladrona: I see. And you, Mr. Ennis?

Mr. Ennis: I was brought up in Russia—that was before the Revolution of ’17. But Czarist Russia was not all that different from Hillbilly Country, which, as my running mate has noted, is about as adverse a piece of real estate as a man--

Ms. Ladrona: A man!!??

Mr. Ennis: Oops! Excuse me. As a person can inhabit.

Ms. Ladrona: That’s much better. And how did you overcome this adversity?

Mr. Ennis: By moving to Small Southwestern City.

Ms. Ladrona: Could you say more?

Mr. Ennis: I could, but I won’t.

Ms. Ladrona: I see. So that concludes our debate tonight. But keep informed, audience, because you might just have to vote somewhere down the line.

​Audience: Hear, hear! (And other modes of applause.)

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