Has Aimless gone too far?

For the sake our dear posterity, who can never be told often enough how much they missed by coming late to the dance, I repost this. It was originally posted on Mindless Prattle, but it went down with the ship when Greenspun folded his tent an the carnival moved on:

Marx and Hegel Go Shopping for Clothes:

Hegel: These lederhosen make me look like an overstuffed weisswurst.

Marx: On the contrary, I think they look very good on you -- like the conductor on a funicular railroad.

Salesman: Funiculars are tres chic this year!

Hegel: I don't care. And watch where you put your fingers, you carp in a cravat.

Salesman: A thousand pardons. Foolish me.

Marx: Can we get back to the lederhosen?

Hegel: By all means. They make me look fat.

Marx: Funicular railroad conductors are meant to be fat. Fat is of their essence. It is the fashion among them as with Burgermeisters. I won't hear any more objections on that head.

Hegel: I am not convinced, but I allow that I am swayed. However, can we both agree that this bilious green Tyrolean hat with the pheasant's feather is frightfully ridiculous?

Marx: Sehr richtig! One must draw the line at such bourgeois abominations.

Hegel: That is why I bring you along on these shopping trips, Karl. Our tastes synthesize so perfectly.

Salesman: Shall I have one of the lederhosen wrapped for you, sir?

Hegel: (sighs) I suppose. [exuent Salesman]

Marx: Toe-sucking leech.

Hegel: My thought exactly.

-- Aimless (aimless@national_raffle_association.org), October 20, 2003