R.I.P. Snore

Caption: The Night Before October Surprise
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Death: What the hell is that noise?
[Death rolls over to look at the clock. 3:29 A.M. The noise? That was his wife, Katie. Snoring. As if the bowels of hell were about to spill forth from her mouth.]
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[That's the cell phone vibrating now. Death throws the covers off and walks naked over to the dresser. Oh yes, it's the classic naked pelvis in the moonlight shot. It'll have to do since Death doesn't have an ass. Death grabs his cell phone and looks at the caller ID. After sighing, Death opens the phone.]
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Voice: Good ME, what is that noise?
Death: Hey, Boss. That’s Katie. She ate some drunk and you know how she gets when she’s been devouring booze-soaked brains.
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Voice: Death, Your Lord Thy God hates to wakest thou. Your Lord Thy God knows you’ve got that oh-so-important match in ROB tomorrow.
Death: BOB.
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Voice: Right. But Your Lord Thy God really needs you to goest to a nursing home. Your Lord Thy God has two delays on the Big Board, and Your Lord Thy God can’t get a hold of Reaper. Your Lord Thy God isn’t U.S. Airways, for my sake. Can thou doest this for your Lord thy God?
Death: Fine. I can’t sleep anyway with all this snoring.
[Death yawns.]
Caption: Waiting To Die Nursing Home
[A while later, Death breezes his way through the hallways of a nursing home. All is quiet. Tomb-like.]
Death: Am I in a nursing home or at a BOB show? BWAHAHAHA!
[Eventually, Death finds the room he was looking for. He walks past one bed and looks into bed number two and finds an old man wearing a Death T-shirt, holding a bony foam Death finger, and a Skull & Bones black baseball cap. The man is smiling widely.]
Man: Death. I’m your biggest fan!
[Death cocks his head to the left, confused by this.]
Death: You know I’m here to KILL you, yeah?
Man: Heh?
Death: I’m here to KILL YOU.
Man: Heh?
Death: Oh this going well. Look, pal, I’ve got two more stops to make tonight.
Man: Death. I just wanted to tell you that I’m your biggest fan. I’ve seen all your matches on the idiot box (he says pointing at the TV mounted on the wall behind Death). But lately, it’s been so sad. I was such a huge fan of yours.
Death: Say WHAT?
Man: Heh? Anyway. You lose all the time now. You big loser. You’re like the world’s biggest loser now. You lost to Steve Studnuts, and then to all those guys in that egg match with those coloreds.
Death: Coloreds? Is this 1940?
Man: Look, Death. It’s just not worth living any more watching you lose all the time. I used to think, wow, there’s a guy who’s got less talent than me, but he was able to make it in rasslin. Even if it was in BOB. But now? There’s no reason. I bet you couldn’t even kill me!
Death: Oh, you’re about to find out.
Man: Bring it on you cracker sonofawhore!
[As if in slow motion, the man pulls the covers back, revealing that he's just barely got more skin than Death. Shakily, the old man tries to push himself up, but he can't do it, because all of his muscles have wasted away. While this is going on, Death reaches up and yanks the TV off the wall.]
Death: Here’s a “Big Bang Theory” for you.
*BANG*
Death: Man, it’s so nice and quiet in here. Maybe I could sneak in a nap.
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Death: Son of a!
[Death walks to the other bed where a man is snoring loudly. That was when he noticed a deck of cards on a table.]
Death: Oooh, isn’t this convenient. Hey, snoring guy, you ever played 52 Card Choke?
[Back outside in a bit, Death was cruising in his Deathmobile when a radio ad caught his attention.]
Announcer: Do you want to stop snoring for good?
Death: Think I’m doing OK myself, pal.
Announcer: Is your wife a heavy drinker, a smoker, or a zombie! Then you need our product!
[Death changes the radio station. "Smooth Operator" by Sade.]
Death: Bah! I hate this song! Wait…did he say zombie?
[Death flips back to the other station.]
Announcer: …dot-com now!
["(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones starts up.]
Death: Ohhhh!
DJ: Wassup, creatures of the night. This one’s going out to my man, The Great, who will be rocking it in Snore Games this week and leading his team to victory.
Death: His team? HIS team?
DJ: Stones on Kay Yew Enn Tee Sin City, and we’re taking your requests all night long!
Death: Oh, this night can’t get any worse, can it? Am I over the hill? I need a stable to hide my fading talent.
[Death pulls out his cell phone.]
Death: Hey. It’s me. We’re getting the band back together. I’ll explain in detail once this Rant fades to black.
[Fade to black.]
