Holy Buckta Batman!
Scene: Commissioner Gordon’s Office, Gotham City, 11 PM
Commissioner Gordon: Batman, I did not turn on the
bat-light, why are you here?
Batman: Commissioner, I have received a distress call from
my former side-kick Robin, he is in Guyana and he says the country needs Batman
….
CG: Robin is in Africa? That guy gets around…
Batman: It’s in South America according to my Bat-map…
anyways, I don’t expect to be gone for too long, probably just regular
criminals, hardly expect to find super-villains in GT..that’s what they call
the capital Georgetown, Robin says its full of crooked skunts, no idea what the
word means, must be the spanishy lingo they speak down there, anyways …Adios
Amigo, I go… (jumps out of window)
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Scene: Cheddi Jagan International airport
Immigration Officer: what’s your reason for visiting Guyana
sor?
Batman: I am here to look at investment in possible business
ventures
IO: well dis is suspicious sor, you are not Chinese… (calls
over to another IO) hey Lennox , dis man say he is an investor but he ent name
Ling or lang…wha fuh do?
Lennox: (Comes over) sor, where are you staying in Guyana?
Batman: I have rented a mansion on the outskirts of
Georgetown , well it must be a mansion based on the rent paid by my agent Dr.
Nutten… millions, millions per month…
Lennox: lot 32B
Sussex Street, hmm, is a Nutten special… (stamps the passport) have a good stay
sucker ah mean sor …
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Scene: Commissioner Rumnowine’s office, GT
Batman swings into the window on his trusty bat-rope, grabs
the person rifling through the Commissioner’s desk
Batman: I have you villain! , five minutes on the job and I
caught a skunt! I really am Batman…
Villain: who the hell are you? I am Commissioner Rumnowine!
Unhand me!
Batman: oh…oh… sorry where I come from the Villains wear
makeup, like the Joker and the Scarecrow…let me introduce myself, I am Batman!
Com R: Well ..this is not Sasod office, so tek yuh buckta
and beat out before I have you arrested!
Batman: but I am Batman, the world’s greatest crime fighting
vigilante, here to help you reduce your crime rate.
Com R: what crime? We already worked out how to reduce the
rate, we don’t answer the phone and we lose every third station diary, crime is
down 21% … look, I have heard of you, especially after Superman beat up yuh
rass in that last movie, what were you thinking? You can’t help us, for
example, you are committing a crime by not having a work permit, did you apply
for one? I know you did not or Minister Rolex would have told me… instead of
jumping through my window, go jump through his, good day sir!
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Scene: Ministry of birth paper.
Batman enters through the front door and politely asks to
see the Minister of Citizens.
Front Desk Girl: ahm, batman? Dh is yuh name, sor yuh cyan
come in here with yuh buckta showing, see the sign there…yes, no sleevless, no
slipper, no buckta showing…please go put some pants on and come back
Batman leaves and returns five mins later with pants
Batman: can I see the Minister now?
FDG: wait, yuh went out and come back wid yuh two long
han’…stueeps…take a seat sor, take plenty seats…
2 hours later Batman approaches the front desk again
Batman: can you say when the minister will see me?
FDR: I don’t know, can you tell me when I will see some
chocolate or perfume on my desk?...sor, please sit down and wait…
3 hours later the office closes and Batman is ushered
outside and told to come back tomorrow…
Early the next day, Batman arrives with a large bar of
chocolate and channel no5 perfume.
Batman: sorry I did not know the local customs, I brought a
gift for you, can I see the Minister today?
FDG: (tucks away the presents) I am sorry sor, the minister
is out of the country since Monday , he will be back next month in time for the
cabinet meeting, thanks for the progs babes, yuh could come back then… tek mih
number nah…wait…he gone?
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Scene: Commissioner
Gordon’s Office, Gotham City, 11 PM (one week later)
CG: Batman! You are back, I guess the petty crime in Ghana
was easy to clear up, no super villains like we have in Gotham eh?
Batman: Commissioner you have it all wrong, Batman has been
defeated in Guyana, let me tell you, we live in a crime free city by
comparison, our super villains are tame pets compared to the animals I
encountered there, oh the humanity! (Batman breaks into bat-tears)
CG: Wow! Batman defeated…did you run into Ra’s Al Ghul?
Batman: worse, lemme tell you about it, I met their
commissioner , who wears make-up like the Joker, he said I needed a work permit
to operate, I went to the ministry for that, they pushed me around for a few
days and sent me to MoP, at MoP I was told that MoP is now at the mess, well
the mess is at the army camp and the only way I could get in there was to use
my gadgets, I got back to my Sussex street ‘mansion’ ..total chaos, the metal
door pried off the hinges, everything gone, bat belt, bat-phone, bat-suit, man
even my special bullet-proof bat bucktas, place empty… when I called the police,
they asked for my tin number and if I had filed my tax returns… and this was
just the start, there are super-villains everywhere, I was hungry and bought
three loaves of bread only to be arrested for ‘vending’ two minutes later,
apparently possession of more than one loaf of bread is an offence, especially
if you have a hunk of cheese in the other hand, the Town Clown had me locked up
until Robin came and bailed me out, while in the lock-ups, someone stole my
bat-watch, then Robin arranged for me to meet Rumjaguar, the Minister in charge
of crime, turns out he has super powers, he can watch two places at one time, I
solved the puzzle of why he can’t get a simple Diwali date right, the man
watching two dates at the same time, it must be confusing as hell, oddly enough
he has a twin , Minister of road and bridge, I highly doubt any bridge he
builds will meet in the middle….
Then came the parade of Super Villains, the Nameekaram
and his side-chick Eggball Can, they look harmless enough, but they spin a
meaner web than Spider-man, talk about tying up a town with thread, I was
convinced that there was no crime problem to fix after half an hour with these
two blasted liars, my mental faculties were tested to the limits to escape their
Lotus eating lair… then I ran into a group of ex-army men, the Old Farts
brigade, you ever smell old people poops…gawd, it was awful, ten of them at one
time, Poison Ivy is perfume by comparison, after a few minutes with them I welcomed
the possibility of death…but I am Batman, I survived by jumping out of a
window..but bradapps, I got out of there into the hands of the Coconut Man, at first
I thought, what a cool guy, he gave me coconut water, ah, so refreshing, then he
started a litany of uses for coconut oil, hair,skin, baby batty, then he
mentioned my batty… and how the oil would make things easier…well that was too
much, ka-pow , straight to the jaw and I ran out of there like a bat out of
hell… I attempted to shelter in the law courts but I was challenged to a battle of
wits by the general attorney, I refused to duel as he was unarmed, I was also
worried about his powers, rumor has it that he is impervious to knowledge and
cannot be harmed by facts…
CG: oh Batman, what an ordeal…
Batman: Comissioner Gordon that is not the end, I then found
out what a ‘skunt’ was, oh I wish I had never learnt that lesson, there was Freddy,
King of the scunts, he called me Hitler, me!...Says only Hitler would be a
vigilante in this post modern Guyana, Then I met one called Uncle Raff, he’s
into producing a musical based on Oil & Gas, plenty song and dance, no
action, what a skunt!, but had it ended there I would have battled through, but
the multitude of skunts kept attacking, ones who kept asking if I could hook
them up a job at Gecon, because it look like it easy to thief deh, then came
the parking meter ads, talk about skunt, I was captured and forced to watch those
ads for days, then the newspapers start reporting about my activities, “Batman
finds new use for coconut oil” … “Hole spotted in Batman’s Buckta”…. “Batman’s
secret meeting with mop at mess” …. After that I knew I could never defeat the
skunts, they are too powerful for me, Commissioner, I am going to be checking
myself into Arkham Asylum for a few days of sanity after that trauma.
For sale: One ‘B” off of Batman belly.