Clinton in Connecticut with Clapton

[Parche]

I am surprised this was NEVER a headline.

It just screams to be front page!

[VOX]

1. Reminds me of the classic Johnny Carson-Jack Webb sketch, "The Copper Clapper Caper."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKyEA6Ebvlk

The Copper Clapper Caper -- In the style of "Dragnet"

The story you are about to see is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Joe Friday: "This is the city. Los Angeles, California. I work here... I'm a cop. It was Tuesday, February 9. It was raining in Los Angeles. We were working robbery. Some people rob for pleasure. Some people rob because it's there. You never know. I was working the day watch out of robbery when I got a call from the Acme School Bell Company."

Victim: "There's been a robbery."

Friday: "Yes sir. What was it?"

Victim: "My clappers."

Friday: "Your clappers?"

Victim: "Yeah, you know those things inside a bell that make them clang."

Friday: "The clangers?"

Victim: "That's right. We call them the clappers in the business."

Friday: "A clapper caper."

Victim: "What's that?"

Friday: "Nothing sir. Now can I have the facts? What kind of clappers were stolen on this clapper caper?"

Victim: "They were copper clappers."

Friday: "And where were they kept?"

Victim: "In the closet."

Friday: "Uh huh, do you have any ideas who might have taken your copper clappers from the closet?"

Victim: "Well, I fired a man and he swore he'd get even."

Friday: "What was his name?"

Victim: "Claude Cooper."

Friday: "You think it was him then?"

Victim: "That's right. I think Claude Cooper copped my copper clapper kept in a closet."

Friday: "You know where this Claude Cooper is from?"

Victim: "Yep. Cleveland."

Friday: "That figures."

Victim: "What makes it worse is that they were clean."

Friday: "Clean copper clappers? Why do you think that Claude Cooper would cop your clean copper clappers kept in your closet?"

Victim: "Only one reason."

Friday: "What's that?"

Victim: "He's a kleptomaniac."

Friday: "Who first discovered the copper clappers were copped?"

Victim: "My cleaning woman, Clara Clifford."

Friday: "That figures. Now let me see if I got the facts straight here. Cleaning woman Clara Clifford discovered your clean copper clappers kept in a closet were copped by Claude Cooper a kleptomaniac from Cleveland. Now is that about it?"

Victim: "One more thing. If I ever catch kleptomaniac Claude Cooper from Cleveland who copped my
clean copper clappers from the closet..."

Friday: "Yes?"

Victim: "I'll clobber him."

[hellbound-liberal]

2. Wow, KrazyKat! I thought of that as soon as I got done reading the headline!

That's a GREAT sketch! Thanks for posting it!