Has anybody noticed that slowly, slowly, (little by little) short people are taking over the world? They took Hollywood many decades ago, beetling their way into the limelight with their bulging eyes and cuban heels. Then they quietly assumed the moral and spiritual high ground, with the truly minuscule Saint Mother Teresa and Gandhi. These days they’re after political power. There used to be a ban on very short people becoming famous politicians — they were there, in the background, but like rats or baby pigeons, they never dared show themselves in public. But now there’s that charismatic little titch Sarkozy set to become President of France and the pint-sized tyrant Ahmadinejad in the east. Neither seem ashamed. And isn’t Hillary Clinton on the short side? Short people
Perhaps you can’t see the danger in letting little people have their turn. Well. Just remember that old Randy Newman song:
They got little hands And little eyes And they walk around Tellin’ great big lies They got little noses And tiny little teeth They wear platform shoes On their nasty little feet They got little baby legs And they stand so low You got to pick ’em up Just to say hello They got little cars That got beep, beep, beep They got little voices Goin’ peep, peep, peep They got grubby little fingers And dirty little minds They’re gonna get you every time Well, I don’t want no short people Don’t want no short people Don’t want no short people ‘Round here
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