Me: (Looking at a billboard for a local candidate) “He’s got a kind of Andy Griffith thing going on, don’t you think?”
Claire” “Yeah, and apparently a boatload of money. Heard he’s paying for his campaign out of his own deep pockets.”
Me: “I don’t mind that so much, as long as they empty his pockets before they feed him into the spinning blades.”
Claire: (After a rather long silence) “Um…spinning blades?”
Me: “Yeah. I mean, I can get along with a traditionalist. Ropes and lamp posts have their charms. But spinning blades have a twenty-first century thing I find very attractive. Elections should definitely involve spinning blades. At a minimum they should be fought with guns.”
Claire: (More silence) “Oh. Yeah, okay.”
No way man. Spinning blades is definitley more Edgar Allen Poe. 21st century would be robot drones and nano-mite spies nipping at your cerebral cortex.
Personally the spinning blades is a much
more compelling visual.
Well, that’s a valid point. Maybe we could consider it a steampunk thing? Lots of jagged iron gingerbread that doesn’t really do anything – kind of 19th century retro, like in that Will Smith movie with the big mechanical spider.
Or we could just pitch them into a tank filled with sharks. Sharks with lasers. Y’know, I’ve never been excited about elections, even when I voted. But this could definitely raise my interest level.
Sharks are endangered, you’ll have to go with sea bass with lasers.
“One, two! One, two! And through and through – the vorpal blade went snicker-snack!“
🙂
I’m reminded of the sparring machine in the movie “Dune”. It’s kinda’ like a jumbo-sized Cuisinart with a random and chaotic mechanism.
That’d raise my interest level! (still wouldn’t vote…)