Rick Perry is asking to be excused from his October 13th court date because he’ll be prancing around Europe and he’s waaaaay more important than his indictment indicates.

On Monday, Perry’s lawyers asked the judge to let the governor miss a pretrial hearing set for Oct. 13, the week of which he plans to be in Europe. Perry’s legal team also proposed excusing Perry from all future proceedings in which evidence is not submitted.

The prosecutor says that Perry should put his prissy patootie in the chair at the defense table and hush the heck up.

“From non-violent drug offenses to white collar crime to intoxication manslaughter — our system of justice works because everybody is treated equally,” McCrum writes in the filing. “From carpenters to lawyers to judges accused of anything from tickets to federal felonies, all are expected to appear in court.”

Which, of course, translated loosely from lawyerese is “sit your butt down, son.”

But here’s the line I like best in the story.

Earlier Wednesday, a British think tank announced Perry would be speaking there on Oct. 14 — one day after the scheduled pretrial hearing in Austin.

A think tank?  Perry at a think tank?  Where’s he gonna get some think?  Perry has always had real bad luck when it comes to thinking.

Maybe it’s that wry British sense of humor at play there, huh?

Thanks to Oto for the heads up.