Rant – Genie in a Jack
Rod: I don’t care if it is a bottle of Jack Daniels, Jim Bean, or Dawn Dishwashing liquid, I want to see a genie pop out.
Barry: Rod, we’ve had this discussion over and over……most of what you see on television is not real.
Rod: That can’t be right. What about all of those reality shows?
Barry: Some of them are staged…totally set up and filmed as if it was real.
Rod: How can they be faked?
Barry: By computers, film editors, and the like.
Rod: What do you mean?
Barry: Remember the movie, “The Running Man”?
Rod: Yeah, it was taken from that novel by Richard Bachman
Barry: Stephen King
Rod: No, the film said Richard Bachman
Barry: That was a pen name that King used. Check IMDB.com and see.
Rod: <checks computer> I’m shocked!
Barry: Anyway, remember how they took what really happened at the first of the movie and made it totally different?
Rod: OH!
Barry: That’s right! Skillful people can take any film and make it something completely different.
Rod: Can it be possible…..do you mean…….Jeannie didn’t come out of a bottle?
Barry: That’s right! It was smoke and special effects.
Rod: And they didn’t shrink the submarine in “Fantastic Voyage”?
Barry: Nope, never happened.
Rod: This is so depressing!
Barry: What do you mean?
Rod: Well, you know the store that sells this?
Barry: Yeah…..
Rod: The sign on the door says spirits.
Barry: I’m going to regret saying this, but so……?
Rod: Why sell these bottles if they don’t have spirits?
Barry: My parental units warmed me there would be days like today.