Zsa Zsa Gabor and Cleopatra were taking a mud
bath together at an exclusive resort in Sedona, Arizona when the song Black
Dog by Led Zeppelin emanated from the sound system.
“You are not as good-looking as I expected,”
Zsa Zsa casually remarked to Cleopatra.
“Maybe so,” answered Cleopatra, “but nonetheless
a bust of me is on display in the Altes Museum of Berlin. I also understand men and have taken many
lovers.” Cleopatra, as a flourish,
lifted an arm from the mud. “My charm
is in my voice.”
Zsa Zsa Gabor opened her
eyes. “Ha! Men! I
have had nine husbands. My eighth marriage lasted only one day. And your bust is presently in black mud,
darling.”
“Marriage for only one day…” mused Cleopatra, “seems
hardly worth the effort.”
“That was number eight. He was a simple playboy and would have bored
me. Good riddance to him.”
Cleopatra thought for a while and then
responded: “Well, most men are empty vessels. We have them where we want them and when we
want them.”
On the sound system, Black Dog fell
into the stanza beloved and oft repeated by
men worldwide: “Hey, hey, baby, when you walk that way, watch your honey
drip, can't keep away. Ah yeah, ah yeah, ah, ah,
ah. Ah yeah, ah yeah, ah, ah, ah."
--Mitchell Hegman
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