deleted name: The
Lone Ranger? Oh God, I...
Skunk:
Yeah, I mean, did you watch it, as a kid, or, you know...
deleted name:
Wellll, I remember it being on but I never, I wasn’t
punctuating
laughter
deleted name: I
hadn’t, I probably haven’t entertained a single thought about the Lone Ranger
since I, actually no, no that’s not true. Here’s
Skunk
(suddenly sitting up in his chair): What?
deleted name: I ah,
I’m not even sure if I read this now, or it might have been on tv but hmmhmm
coughing
to clear his throat.
deleted name: This
was a few years ago, but I heard that the guy who played the Lone Ranger way
back in the fifties? Maybe even the forties? On the radio? I’m not actually
sure if it was the same guy ahmmmm... Let’s... was it Jeff, no no it was Jay Silverheels that was the Indian guy,
Tonto! Damn what was... Clayton
Moore! I must’ve seen this stuff more than I thought
laughing
again
deleted name: and
anyways, he’d, he sounded like that was it for him, the whole Lone Ranger
thing, I don’t know if he ever did
anything else, but there was some litigious thing went down because Moore
seemed to think that he was the Lone
Ranger, and I think whoever owned the copyright, or maybe even the creator of
the, of the, you know, whoever wrote
the thing in the first instance was having none of that, so they forbade Moore to wear the mask when he was doing any
kind of appearance, any kind of “I am the Lone Ranger” sort of thing
Skunk:
What, this must have been a few years
ago. But he’s, if he was in these things in the fifties or, I mean, he must be
pretty old now. What’s the
deleted name:
Exactly, that’s what I’m saying. He did nothing else, and he’s still dressing up as the Lone Ranger for
chat shows or commercials or whatever, only he’s not allowed to wear the mask
anymore.
Skunk
(laughing): That’s really weird because I used to have a Lone Ranger doll and
he, his mask actually broke so without it he wasn’t the Lone Ranger. Or at
least, it was still the Lone Ranger,
only you didn’t recognise him as the
Lone Ranger because he didn’t have his mask. Oh that’s... you know what I mean anyway.
deleted name: Yeah,
yeah. Without the disguise he’s not... It’s as if the mask could go out
and do the appearances and the commercials without the man.
Skunk:
So when people see this, what was his name, Moore?
deleted name: Clayton Moore yeah. I think that was his name. I’m, I don’t
know if he’s still alive or not.
Skunk:
So when people see him they’re probably, he’s just some old guy in a cowboy
outfit. He could be anybody.
deleted name: Well
no, no because he has a sort of mask substitute. He ah
starting
to laugh again
deleted name: he
wears a pair of dark glasses.
Tears
stream from out Brother Skunk’s eyes, and he gasps out his hoarse laughter as a
sort of
Skunk:
Hih hih hih
sound.
Skunk:
Oh Lord. Hih hih hih. Fantastic.
