Gerry and the Cookie Monster
Gerry Adams is in the United States, ostensibly telling Americans about the serious nature of the current deadlock. However I suspect that his real purpose is to go shopping for muppet memorabilia.
Apparently he ran in to the President of Sesame Workshop, Gary Knell, at last month's meeting of the Bill Clinton's Global Initiative group in New York. Sesame Workshop make both the legendary Sesame Street and the local version, Sesame Tree.
The SF President told the SW president that Sesame is "huge" here. Then Gerry showed Gary his wrist, on which he proudly sported a Cookie Monster watch. Mr Knell's view was that this was as good as it gets.
Sesame, of course, doesn't just appeal to republicans. When Gary Knell visited the Assembly earlier in the year, the Speaker Willie Hay presented him with an Ian Knox cartoon of 108 muppets outside Stormont.
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Cue the comparisons:
Big Bird = "Big Man"
The vampiric Count = Peter Robinson
Bert and Ernie = Gerry and Martin
Anyone got any more?
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REVISIONIST ART
If there is a rerun perhaps the 108 muppets should be sketched INSIDE stormont.
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What have The Muppets got to do with Sesame Street?
I thought they were two completely different programs.
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