This an excerpt from a short, hilarious one-man play that features Tiny Tim as a grown man who has not fared well with his famous childhood.
"Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if people could at least get the saying right, but I'm constantly getting requests for things like "God bless everybody all the time." But wait, it gets even balmier, sometimes they ask me for, "Please sir, can I have some more." "It is a far, far better thing I do." "Out damn spot!" "Oh Heathcliff! I'll meet you in the Heather" and occasionally even, "Looky there, Gretel! I think I sees me a gingerbread house!" Bloody uneducated dolts. And you know, if you really want to get the quote correct, what I actually said was, "God bless us, everyone." No "all." I was referring only to members of me immediate family, and if I recall properly, at the time I was excluding my older brother Peter, as he was a bit of a git and had the habit of repeatedly tying me in a flour sack and trying to throw me into the Thames . . ."
From page 67 of the collection titled "Stage This! Volume 3: Monologues, Short Solo Plays and 10-Minute Plays" published by E-Merging Writers.com and Fn Productions, 2009.
http://www.amazon.com/Stage-THIS-Monologues-Short-10-Minute/dp/1442184183
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