BANAL INTERVIEWS WITH CELEBRITY GHOSTS – DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS

March 9, 2014

Loon: Today’s celebrity ghost for the 3 question interview is the famous silent motion picture star, Douglas Fairbanks. Welcome, Mr. Fairbanks, and how many arms and legs did you break, including your own, acting in movies?

Ghost of Fairbanks: I can do 104 pushups.

Loon: Very good. Really. That’s marvelous. By the way, were you ever in a ballroom dancing competition?

Ghost of Fairbanks: I bit a steel cable in half.

Loon: Wow. That must have been something. Finally, let’s get serious. What banks are really fair?

Ghost of Fairbanks: My grandfather could levitate.

Loon backs out of the room. Ghost of Fairbanks leaps and twirls away.

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