Hut he didn't wonder for too lnog because he was still embarassed about his surprise birthday party a few days earlier :
| Flurby Jim | What a dull day. |
(suddenly the lights flick on, and 100 people jump out of the shadows and yell 'surprise')
| Flurby Jim | What's this? |
| Herby Flo | Happy birthday! |
| Flurby Jim | You what? |
| Herby Flo | Happy birthday. |
| Flurby Jim | To whom? |
| Herby Flo | Oh, you haven't forgotten, have you? And we went to all this effort. Its your birthday! |
| Flurby Jim | Umm, "I thought you'd all forgotten" |
| Herby Flo | Horay! |
| Flurby Jim | Wait a minute, it was my birthday last Wednesday. You did all forget. |
| Herby Flo | Ummm, "Happy birthday" |
| Bill | Look, cheer up, I flew all the way in from China to be here |
| Flurby Jim | I didn't even know you were in China |
| Bill | Oh, thanks a lot, mate. I'll remember that next time I'm in China. E.g. tomorrow |
| Flurby Jim | You're going back to China tomorrow? |
| Bill | Yes, repeated air travel is necessary to maintain the population level. |
"Some days you have to push yourself to your limits, to the absolute end of what you can comprehend, just to remain vital - to remain alive. But not today" - Ted Jefferson
"Surprises let me know she cares" - Bill
Anyway, something else Flurby Jim has done recently in the wake of a once again faltering TV career is to return to media journalism. In particular he now writes a weekly column for one of the leading Sunday broadsheets in honour of a certain particularly dense current president of the USA entitled 'Bleeding Heart Liberal of the Week'. Destined to be much more popular than 'ran out of ideas really quickly' Fact vs Fiction, here is a sample :
Bleeding heart liberal of the week this week goes to none other than Joerg Haider. Haha! Not really. But listen to this story :
The other day I left my house, and starting running down the street. Not for any particularly good reason, just that I was going for a jog. Anyway, I got halfway down the road and stopped to kick some small children really hard. To which a really old man said :
"Leave them! Leave them, can't you? Don't you see - they're already dead" - a really old man
Of course I realised immediately. That old man was bleeding heart liberal of the week!
"Of course the USA should play a larger part in the cleanup of the world's environment, definitely looking past basic forest plantation - as a nation it is efffectively just 4% of the population creating 25% of the pollution" - a leading bleeding heart liberal
"I appreciate the stress Mr. Blair must be under, as a Labour second term becomes less and less absolutely certain, but I don't believe he should be allowed to get away with murder, arbitrarily culling leading members of the opposition" - king of the bleeding heart liberals
"Please help me, I have fallen and broken my leg" - another bleeding heart liberal
"There is no reason to fear. The government will protect me. They are the government that works for the future" - Bill
"I love bunnies" - the most liberal, largest bleeding heart of them all
Some might say revealingly, it has not been explicitly ruled out at this time that Flurby Jim will become King.