Ruthless People

Kristin: So I was having the best dream before the damn alarm went off this morning.

Brat: About who?

Kristin: How'd you know it was about someone?

Brat: The best dreams are always about someone.

Kristin: True. Anyway, it was about Keanu Reeves and an aerobics class.

Brat: Oh my. Details?

Kristin: Let's just say he looks hot in spandex and leave it at that.

Brat: That was never in question. Speaking of hotties, I found a new game for us. It's called "Marry, Screw, Kill".

Kristin: LOL. Any rules beyond the obvious?

Brat: Nope, it's pretty straightforward. I give you three names, and you decide which one you would kill, which one you would marry, and which one you would screw.

Kristin: Got it.

Brat: Okay, I'll start off easy. Harrison Ford, Keanu Reeves, and George Clooney

Kristin: How not easy is that!?

Brat: {giggle}

Kristin: I don't want to kill George Clooney!

Brat: That's the worst part of this game.

Kristin: But Harrison Ford is in love with Calista Flockhart so I know he wouldn't marry me, cuz... you know. The ass issue.

Brat: Oh they don't have choices here. Only you do.

Kristin: Ahhh... okay then. Marry Harrison Ford, screw Keanu Reeves, kill George Clooney, although deeply under protest.

Brat: See, me? I'd kill Harrison Ford, marry Keanu and screw Clooney.

Kristin: I don't think Keanu would be so interesting after a while...

Brat: No wait. I'd screw Keanu and marry Clooney. Yeah, you're right. I had the same thought.

Kristin: You would kill the roguish Han Solo?

Brat: In a heartbeat, sister.

Kristin: That's harsh dude.

Brat: I'm just inured to the roguish charm. Besides. Like you said. Calista Flockhart.

Kristin: Yeah... but I just couldn't do it to him. I don't feel like I know Clooney as well as I know Harrison.

Brat: And that? Makes George more attractive to me.

Kristin: I like the familiar. Thus the Ford marriage.

Brat: I can see that. I like the unknown. I think. Ok, it's your turn.

Kristin: Ok... Vin Diesel, Mark Wahlberg, and Jackie Chan.

Brat: Heavens. I can't kill Jackie Chan.

Kristin: If you pull the trigger on Jackie I'll never speak to you again.

Brat: I know! That's what I mean. Actually, I've got it. Marry Chan, screw Wahlberg, and kill Vin.

Kristin: Kill VIN!? The studly and highly muscled Vin!?

Brat: It's either him or Wahlberg. And you know? I think Wahlberg has a sense of humor and I don't think Vin does.

Kristin: Wow... you're ruthless.

Brat: I know what I like.

Kristin: That's an admirable quality.

Brat: OK, what would you do?

Kristin: Um... Marry Jackie, screw Vin and kill Marky Mark. Because the New Kids dance? Condemns him in a way that no washboard abs will ever overcome.

Brat: See I've never seen that, and it might've colored my judgment the same way.

Kristin: I assure you it would. My sister was just the right age for the New Kids so I was intimately familiar, against my will. All right. You're up.

Brat: Poor Kristin. Ok... Patrick Stewart, Sean Connery, and Tommy Lee Jones.

Kristin: That's easy. Screw Sean Connery, marry Patrick Stewart and kill Tommy Lee Jones.

Brat: You'd kill TOMMY LEE?

Kristin: I'd have to. I couldn't kill Picard or 007. Plus, while I like Tommy Lee, he has that funky skin, so if it came down to the bullet, he gets it. You?

Brat: I'd marry Connery, screw Jones, and kill Stewart.

Kristin: You'd kill Picard?

Brat: I would.

Kristin: Wow. Good think he's married to me. I might be able to beg for his life.

Brat: Don't count on it. I'm ruthless, remember?

Kristin: Truly ruthless. Got it. All right... let's see what I can come up with... OK, here we go. Wilford Brimley, William Shatner, and Giovanni Ribisi.

Brat: Roflmao!

Kristin: The table she has turned.

Brat: Wait, I need to look up Brimley

Kristin: You don't know who Wilford Brimley is!?

{brief pause}

Brat: Oh. Dude.

Kristin: LOL

Brat: Well. There's not much of an option. I'd have to screw Ribisi, marry Brimley ('cause I sure as hell ain't having sex with him), and kill Shatner.

Kristin: If you marry him, don't you have to consummate it at some point?

Brat: Well. Nothing says I have to be conscious at the time. God. Ew.

Kristin: I thought marriage was the one where you got to have sex with them for a long time, but after a while it got boring.

Brat: It's just marriage in and of itself... like who'd you spend the rest of your life with, sex notwithstanding. Or at least... that's what I'm saying... in this case.

Kristin: But you do sleep with them... I mean, a sexless marriage would suck. Unless you were married to Wilford Brimley.

Brat: Honey. Exactly. Besides, I'd have Ribisi to screw. Which isn't... better... but... it's an alternative.

Kristin: Ribisi? FREAKS me the hell out.

Brat: Well? And you would? Kill Ribisi?

Kristin: Gads. I don't even want to be in the same ROOM as any of these people.

Brat: You have to choose.

Kristin: Um... kill Brimley... oh shit... hold on...

Brat: Rofl

Kristin: Ok ok ok ok. In this hell of my own making, I would screw Ribisi (only once right!?), marry Shatner and kill Brimley. And now I so need to take a shower.

Brat: Ewwwww

Kristin: Is what I'm saying!

Brat: Ok. Tom Cruise, William H. Macy, and Ben Stiller. This one is easy.

Kristin: God, no kidding. Kill the Cruise, screw the Macy and marry the Stiller

Brat: I really wanted to put you in a position where you'd have to marry the Cruise.

Kristin: It's never marry the Cruise.

Brat: I'd screw the Stiller and marry the Macy. Stiller gives me a headache.

Kristin: Then how could you screw him? "Can't tonight Stiller. I have a headache."

Brat: Gag him first.

Kristin: Gagging him might constitute foreplay.

Brat: That? Is ok.

Kristin: {snicker} Ok got one. Tom Cruise, Commander Riker, and Doctor McCoy.

Brat: You're evil.

Kristin: It's payback for making me kill Clooney.

Brat: Kill the Cruise is a given. So I guess screw McCoy and marry Riker. And then invite him over to every one of your movie parties. And tell him you have the secret hots for him.

Kristin: Ugh

Brat: Heh. What would you do? Besides kill the Cruise?

Kristin: Kill the Cruise, yeah. Cuz it's always kill the Cruise. Screw Riker (cuz who hasn't he screwed?) and marry McCoy. He seems like a good provider.

Brat: Good point.

Kristin: Ooo! I have another good one!

Brat: Uh oh.

Kristin: Colonel Sanders, Ronald MacDonald, and Jack from Jack in the Box.

Brat: Roflmao! Um... kill the Colonel, screw Ronald, marry Jack.

Kristin: You know, that's the first one we totally agree on, I think. You have to marry Jack. Max Headroom's in there. Well, he's the voice anyway.

Brat: Is he??? No wonder I love him! I always thought he sounded familiar but couldn't place him.

Kristin: Yup. That's him. I think.

Brat: I love ... whatever his name is.

Kristin: Matt Frewer. Yeah, you really love him alright...

Brat: Yes. Matt Frewer. I love Matt Frewer. Ok I have a good one.

Kristin: If you make me kill Max Headroom...

Brat: Heeeeee. OK, Matt Frewer, Alton Brown, and David Duchovny

Kristin: DAMN YOU...

Brat: I know, I know, I made you kill Max Headroom!

Kristin: You did you bitch!

Brat: I revel in my own evil!

Kristin: Cuz I cannot kill Mulder and we've already established that I'm going to marry Alton! So we're killing Max Headroom, marrying Alton and screwing Duchovny (on a regular basis, I might add).

Brat: I have been avenged for having to marry Wilford Brimley!!

Kristin: I assume you'd be offing Alton with ease?

Brat: Hell no. I'm offing Duchovny. Under protest. I'm marrying Alton, too.

Kristin: Wow - really?

Brat: He's adorable, and funny, and he can cook, and he's employed.

Kristin: True... you were never as big into Duchovny as I was...

Brat: True that.

Kristin: What if we switched Duchovny with... Keanu?

Brat: Oh... ummm... then I'd off Max Headroom, and screw Keanu. Still would marry Alton.

Kristin: It's always marry Alton just like it's always kill the Cruise, isn't it?

Brat: Yeah. Thanks for clearing that up for us.

Kristin: Glad I could help.

- KNP July 20, 2003

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