He was about five minutes into his speech at his party’s annual convention – he had the audience in the palm of his hand – how they laughed and clapped. There was a blonk sound – his arms fell off.
We had made a mistake, the red-coloured paramedics ran out on the podium and tried to save him. Arms were not enough, we pulled ourselves together and concentrated on the necessary. There was a blonk sound – his legs fell off.
The head probably fell off too; but the TV cut away to a news desk where no one had any idea what had happened – he had probably been assassinated.
We had to wait until the late afternoon for the second guy on our GREME list – Get Rid of Evil MEn. He was giving a very formal impromptu speech to his followers somewhere in Florida – our Portuguese would hopefully be good enough to recognise him.
This time we wanted to do it properly, we held hands in front of the TV, we concentrated very hard. There was a blonk – all four of his limbs fell off and ditto head.
Later in the evening our time there was a big rally in a big football stadium in a big town whose name I’m not gona mention. We held hands in front of the TV and we concentrated very hard, but the stadium appeared to be almost empty, just full of litter and reporters interviewing people…
Had he put two and two together to make sixteen and chickened out? No third man? We looked at a map, yes, there were two stadiums. The people had seen the game at the River Side Stadium and then rushed over to the Mountain View Stadium to hear the big man.
We changed TV channel and we concentrated very hard. There was a blonk – all four of his limbs fell off and ditto head.
We opened a bottle of wine, we had succeeded with all three men. They were always men. The three men had been in very high office, they had been evil. The three men were standing for re-election, they continued to be evil. But now they were gone.