Re-Cy-cling?

Summary:

Mr. Burns comes to offer the children of Springfield Elementary school some rather cynical business advice.

Transcript

Skinner: Now, let's give a big Junior Achievers welcome to our guest speaker. I know he can teach us a lot about business. Mr. C. Montgomery Burns.

Burns: I'll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don't want to be driving to the maternity hospital... or sitting in some phony-baloney church. Or synagogue. Questions?

Skinner: Well, uh, I'm gonna take advantage of this rare opportunity, even if you children aren't interested. Uh, which do you think is more important? Hard work or stick-to-itiveness?

Burns: Are there any real questions? Yes.

Lisa: Um, does your plant have a recycling program?

Burns: Re-cy-cling? I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that term, you adorable little ragamuffin.

Lisa: Hmm. You've never heard of recycling? It means to reuse things to conserve our natural resources.

Burns: Oh, so Mother Nature needs a favor. Well, maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys. Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she's losing. Well, I say hard cheese

Now you practice:

How would you describe Mr. Burns? What kind of a person is he? How do you know?

Email your scenario to jpenna@udel.edu for this week's Simpson's practice.