Carousel of Puppets

Mushmouth says:

In the second installment of our Ask a Puppet series, unokhan asks:

how can one tell a puppet from an entity? i meet creatures all day long at work and on the street and i can't tell if i am talking to a simulacrum with a hand inside or a being which is in itself its own thingness. does it matter? shed light pleez.

Stobierski says:
A simulacrum with a hand inside? Pfsh! I suppose that's what unokhan thinks of puppets like us. Is that what I am? A simulacrum? Oh certainly, I couldn't possibly have my own thingness, now could I? I'm just a puppet. Why doesn't this unokhan just come out and say it, all puppets are kn... kn... I can't say it.

Mushmouth says:
Knuckle-heads?

Stobierski says:
Thanks, Mushmouth. I don't like to say the K-N-word, you know.

Mushmouth says:
Yeah, Stobie-man, I know. But aren't you being a little harsh on unokhan? I mean, isn't this what Puppetism is all about? Confronting bigotry and misconceptions one brain-infested human at a time? Encouraging the skin-stuffers to grasp beyond their cultural indoctrination into the raw plushy matter inside?

Stobierski says:
Is it?

Mushmouth says:
Uh, I thought it was. Didn't we put that in our Mission Statement?

Stobierski says:
We had a Statement of Vision, and a Core Values statement drafted, but I don't think we ever got around to ratifying them. We certainly never brought up a Mission Statement. Mission Statements don't come up until step seven in the "How to Start a Niche Liberal Watchdog Organization" plan.

Mushmouth says:
I thought we had a Mission Statement. Maybe I dreamed it.

Stobierski says:
That could be. You're always having strange dreams like that.

Mushmouth says:
Hey, maybe I'm dreaming this conversation we're having? Right now.

Stobierski says:
No.

Mushmouth says:
Why not?

Stobierski says:
You're not asleep.

Mushmouth says:
That's true. Surprising, but true. So what were the Core Values we were debating? I didn't know we had any values.

Stobierski says:
Honesty. Integrity. Free donuts for all committee members which is to be an equal distribution of plain glazed, chocolate-dipped chocolate with chocolate sprinkles, and some sort of goo-filled donut as long as it's not custard-filled... blueberry-filled if they have it.

Mushmouth says:
That sounds great! Why didn't we ratify that!

Stobierski says:
You wanted to issue a signing statement.

Mushmouth says:
Hmm. Oh yeah. "Blueberry-filled should not be construed to mean a moist cake donut filled with blueberry pieces, whether artificial or natural, but only as a round powdered donut pumped full of a gelatinous blueberry-flavored substance."

Stobierski says:
Yes, we're still researching if signing statements are pro forma constitutional legalities or something you just made up.

Mushmouth says:
Maybe I dreamed them!

Stobierski says:
Yes. So there you go unokhan, as I said earlier, you can tell the puppets are puppets by their special "Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress" lapel pins.

Mushmouth says:
You never said that!

Stobierski says:
Didn't I? I thought so. Right after the wizard descended from his flying saucer on the back of a giant white garden slug, screaming, "I want my cheese and crackers back you fellas!" Then I said, "You can tell the puppets by their Carousel of Progress lapel pins." Didn't I?

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