November 2006
6 posts
The Nigerian Investment Opportunity that Cried...
From David Askin:
A junior account manager at a bank in Nigeria legitimately comes into the opportunity to make out with $40 million if only he can find a fake “heir” in another country in whose account to deposit the money. He writes an email to long lists of people, which reads just like the typical scam. Only this time, had anyone responded, they really would have gotten the 10%...
Untie
The word “Untie” at the top of a T-shirt. Under that is an American flag with its stripes coming apart and flapping away from each other, and the stars flying in a bunch of different directions.
Atoms are forever
From my Dad, back in April:
Some 16 year old on the peace march today mentioned that now when you’re cremated, they can compressed your carbonized atoms into a diamond. So what if the wife turns her dead husband into a diamond and then has to pawn it for some money to pay the bills? Would his soul be able to view what was happening in the pawn shop? What would happen if he was sold as an...
Infant Trouble
From David Askin:
a movie (or tv show) starring a character who was a fully developed, mature adult in every way EXCEPT that he/she had missed the stage in infancy of grasping object permanence. thus, any person/thing that went out of the character’s view would completely cease to exist in the eyes of the character. this would probably be regularly traumatic, but i think this would end up...
Sarcasm that changes the world
The main character in this movie, Jim, is sarcastic all of the time. He never says what he means; everything he says is intentionally ludicrous and everyone adores his “wry sense of humor.”
But then a funny, magical thing happens. His sarcasm changes the world. Every time he lies jokingly, or says something absurd, the world changes to make his sarcasm a reality. It happens so...
Superhero with monomania
A superhero who is basically invincible, but whose main weakness is that he takes a lot of time off from saving people to obsess over his pet political cause. If there’s a protest for or against his cause, this hero will drop whoever he is saving to either harass the protesters, or march with them. He also spends a lot of time campaigning to the mayor and whatnot, who tires of his one-cause...