Shalampax Speaks

A few days ago I told you that Shalampax’s Parliament was stymied because the ceremonial gavel that, by law, must be used to call Parliament to order at the start of a new session was thrown out by the cleaning staff while Parliament was recessed. I’m happy to say that the impasse has been broken.

One reader, who goes by the name of David, suggested that we hypnotize our parliamentarians and get them to hold a session of Parliament without the ceremonial gaveling. They could then pass a law that revoked the previous law requiring the ceremonial gavel. David suggested that, despite this being illegal because the ceremonial gavel would not be used to start the session, most Shalampaxians wouldn’t care.

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There is a crisis in Shalampax’ parliament. It was supposed to resume sitting more than a week ago, but it has not been able to do so.

The problem started when Burnttoast, who submitted a bid valued at $9.7 million per month, won the contract to clean Parliament’s chamber and its ten offices.

It’s apropos of nothing, but I should mention that about the time that Burnttoast won the cleaning contract she also became one of Prime Minister Manexposinghimself’s mistresses. However, Manexposinghimself assures me that that’s purely a coincidence and Burnttoast really is the best person for the job.

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