Florida Republican representative Bob Allen has been found guilty for soliciting sex in a public ( state park bathroom ) place.
What I found interesting, is his counsel repeated appeals to the fictitious geography known as “Bizarro World” as part of the defence.
During closing arguments earlier in the day, Eisenmenger told jurors the state’s version reminded him of a comic-book land called Bizarro World, “where everything is backward.”
And further….
But in his closing, Whitaker pointed to an enlarged mug shot of Allen’s unshaven face and declared, “This is Bizarro World.” “Bob Allen making eyes at police, looking over a stall door at another man’s eyes, going into that stall … looking at that man and saying, ‘This is kind of a public place, isn’t it?’ That is Bizarro World.”
Is this just not incredibly nutso? It would be like your defence including what happened in an episode of “Friends”. See it was just like that time Joey knew Rachel and Chandler were getting together but everyone thought he was a pervert. But remember, he kept saying “I’m Joey”?
But an appeal to Bizarro world is not unknown in Kryptonian jurisprudence.
Said defence for Zod, Law-El: “It is Bizarro World, General Zod was just arranging fireworks for a celebratory festival for that rapidly-approaching, gaseous star over there!”.
November 12th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
It warms the cockles to see that Bizarro and his Bizarro World have become ingrained in cultural references to a world in which things appear to be their seeming opposite.
I must strive to find a way to work Mr. Mxyzptlk into the zeitgeist.
November 14th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
didn’t the Superfriends have to get Mxyzptlk to say his name backwards or something in order to banish him from earth? how in the world would you be able to do that?
November 15th, 2007 at 10:44 am
I always thought those “Say Klpzyxm” episodes were stupid-ass unrealistic.
Lak-le!
November 21st, 2007 at 10:58 am
not like that totally realistic GI Joe episode where the Joe team kept getting tipped off to the latest Cobra attacks by a mysterious informant called “The Viper”
then it turns out at the end The Viper was just a heavily-accented Hungarian immigrant window-washer who was “here to vipe your vindows”
November 21st, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Also seen as the closing scary story from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Schwartz.