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Samsonite
by Albert Russo

It’s already terrible that our sisters in Iran and Saudi Arabia look like black letterboxes, but the poor guys must have their foreskin - what hangs out of the pecker, for you ninnies who don’t know what I’m talking about (and no this is not pornovulgar, it’s the facts of life, like the birds and the bees and how they mate) - cut off, ouch, ouchchch, what barbaric customs!

Samson’s mom cried so much that she couldn’t see straight for days, cooking the strangest dishes the family had ever tasted: rabbit paws and ears, with their fur, heads of roosters with their cockscomb, pork nostrils stuffed with weed, and so fork and ding dong.

As for his father, he refused to speak to him. But Samson wouldn’t change his mind. To prove that he was the strongest guy in Judea and beyond, he provoked the Philistines and fought them one by one, killing hundreds. They really feared him and couldn’t understand how one man could overpower a whole army, single handed.

“You see, my dear ones,” he turned to his parents, “Goddess hasn’t abandoned me, I’m still the mightiest dude around.”

His folks could only agree to what he said and finally allowed him to marry Delilah, though they weren’t happy with the prospect. What kind of hussie was that girl, a daughter of their bitterest enemies?

Samson didn’t stop there. He went into the desert and killed a fierce lion; a few days later, he brought back to his parents honeycombs that were nested inside the beast’s carcass. Yeah, he was indeed history’s first superman.

The Philistines wanted to take revenge and approached Delilah:

“Oh lovely one, help us fight that Jew who has caused us so much suffering, and ask him the secret of his strength.” They begged her so much that she finally promised them she would get the answer one way or the other.

So, Deliah, the traitoress, pretended even more convincingly than when she met him for the first time, she loved the handsome and mighty Samson so blindly that they spent the whole night smooching like there would be no tomorrow. The ladder believed she was really infatuated with him.

Between you and me, that is the strength of us felinists: put on a big smile, pretend you’re smitten like the lightning has just struck you, that you’re so enthththused by your partner that he is dazzled like a pretzel just out of the oven and his heart is on meltdown mode, so much so that he begins raving like a drunk tiger - oh so, you’ve never seen a drunk tiger! Pour the contents of a full bottle of Absolut vodka in a big bowl and you’ll see how fast he will lap it off, with the result that he will soon be woozy, blitzed and then totally zonked.