THE BOOK OF DAMN
YANKEES
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF MANIFEST DESTINY
Ike takes a napThe Yanks are in charge
Chapter 138
In fact, things couldn’t have gone any better than they did for the Yanks during nEisenhower’s nap.
2Their industry was booming,
3oBecause the Yanks knew how to make everything better than anyone else,
4pIncluding cars that always started and ran forever with no maintenance,
5qAnd planes that flew higher and faster and safer than anyone ever dreamed possible,
6rAnd computers, which nobody ever had at all before the Yanks invented them,
7sAnd television sets, which nobody else in the world could even afford to own,
8tAnd household appliances like refrigerators, and washing machines, and stoves, and dishwashers, which everybody else in the world would have given their right arm for,
9uNot to mention machinery of every possible kind and purpose,
10Which was all the very best and most advanced technology you could find anywhere,
11Which is why every vYank had a good job,
12aAnd a house,
13bAnd a two-car garage,
14cWith two cars in it,
15dAnd an extraordinary confidence in the future of the world,
16Because the Yanks were in charge of the world,
17eAnd that’s the way God wanted it,
18As every Yank knew,
19And would tell you if you asked.
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