By Styles Cradgerock, MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON – Mikhail Gorbachev has responded to Vladimir Putin’s statement that he won’t attend the former Russian leader’s funeral.
“I’m not going, either,” Gorbachev, affectionately known by fans as Gorby, said Friday. “I have other plans.”
News that Gorby also won’t be going sparked furious head-scratching debate as to what he would be doing instead.
“I wonder if he’ll be going golfing,” wondered Dan Corduroy, an avid golfer. “But I can’t recall if he was really a golfer,” he went on. “Strange,” he went on even more.
Gorby said only that he “had a thing,” without elaborating on why he was skipping the ceremony.
There was no word whether Gorby’s absence would stop world dignitaries from attending.
Brutal Times political analyst and champion hotdog eater Billy, 12, said he still expects Olympic Committee Chairman Thomas Bach and WHO chief Tedros “Ted”Adhanom Ghebreyesus to go.
“They’re at everything,” he went on. “I can’t wait to see what they’ll wear.”
