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The low-price leader heads the parade
two of our most popular items this season. 49
as girls with plastic buckets flank him, tossing free samples into the crowd: Billy gets new ultra-slim comfort-fit tampons, and Susan is the proud owner of Gopher-Be-Gone Killz-Um Pest Poison. The band behind isn’t exactly marching, but simultaneously playing tunes
for each demographic comprising today’s eager crowd: old-time for the old-timers, electronica for the tween overtones, nursery rhymes for the little ones, clinically proven to lull children
and pets into a sense of security. Speaking
of which, here comes the homeland team and don’t they look great in sponsored apparel–the brand-name ones to beat.
Well, send in the clowns, in their tiny clown-car, so fuel efficient it’s hilarious.
Now here come’s this year’s pageant queen, and Bob, do I have this right, the voting happened a little differently this year?
That’s right, Chuck, instead of one person, this year our dear townspeople elected individual body parts from different girls, which have been reassembled atop this float, and just look at that wave, that smile–
robert Peake