Mr. Slick: Do you know what the RFS is, dummy?
Dummy: It’s the Renewable Fuel Standard. It requires the oil companies to blend renewable fuels with their gasoline.
Mr. Slick: And that’s real bad, right?
Dummy: Yea, for Big Oil. Because it means we’ll use less oil and more renewable ….!
Mr. Slick: Dummy!
Dummy: Uh oh…
About Ventriloquism • The actor who plays Mr. Slick is an actual ventriloquist. • The name ventriloquist comes from the Latin for “to speak from the stomach.” • Comedic style ventriloquism is a fairly recent innovation, originating in the days of vaudeville in the late 19th century. • The hardest letters for a ventriloquist to speak are f, v, b, p and m. • The fear of ventriloquist dummies is called automatonophobia. • The puppet is not typically called a dummy, but a figure. WWW.VITALBYPOET.COM
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