There's got to be a better way

Molly and I were quite taken by a recent Saturday Night Live commercial that has now found its way into our daily conversation.

To understand, you must first watch the video:



It’s a great way to reduce even the most important events and figures into an infomercial. Imagine these lines in the same exasperated and yet markety voice as in the sketch:

History of America:
“The discovering and colonizing”
“The declaring and the revolting.”
“The shipping and enslaving.”
“The fighting and the winning.”

Barack Obama:
"The speaking and inspiring."
"The voting and overcoming"
"The cheering and the history-making."

It works for everything. Try it. Just today I went to the dentist, or as I described it to Molly – “The cleaning and the scraping.”