BILLINGSGATE POST: Forget about the Twist; likewise the Moonwalk. Neither Michael Jackson nor Fred Astaire could master it. They tried it in the movie Grease. John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John threw up their hands while attempting to integrate the hapless shuffle into their repertoire. Even Bojangles was frustrated when he tried to mimic the shuffling, stiff legged glide across the stage. The closest any other semi-mortal came to conquering it was the fictional, deformed hunchback bell ringer, Quasimodo; and that only after years of him trudging up the ladder, ringing the bell at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
We’re talking about “Duh Joe.” Only a fool would try to do this dance. And that’s exactly the case. But even he tripped and fell numerous times before he became proficient in gliding across the White House lawn without lifting his feet; sort of like skiing sans skis.
Yes, we’re talking about President Joe Biden. Even though it is noteworthy that his uncle was eaten by cannibals in Papua, New Guinea after being shot down in World War II, somehow Joe has survived being brain dead for the past three years.
Dr. Slim: “He still has the moves of a man twice his age.”
Dirty: “Yo, Dr. Dude. The man’s a living legend.”
