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- From: marks@castle.ed.ac.uk (Mark Steyn)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: How come
- Message-ID: <28480@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:59:56 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.153229.17095@spider.co.uk>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
- Lines: 47
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- andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon) writes:
-
- >everytime I pick up a sharp implement I have an un-natural urge to stick it
- >into my finger ?
-
- Don't you know? Sigh... I suppose I'll have to tell you then.
-
- Ok, listen carefully.
-
- All sharp objects are intrinsically evil. Got that? Good.
- They are also very intelligent, though they do their best to hide it
- (and given that they have had several thousand years to practise, they
- do it very well). At first sharp objects were perfectly happy - there
- were wars left, right and centre and basically they got to spend many
- happy hours carving up hapless peasants and (not so hapless) knights and
- bad guys. And they were happy (in an evil sort of way).
-
- But times changed and the demands on sharp objects changed with it.
- Slowly they found that there was less and less demand for decapacitation
- and more often than not they ended up carving the Sunday roast.
-
- Gone were the magnificent sharp objects of old, the swords, the spears,
- even the daggers. Instead they found themselves relegated to mere kitchen
- cutlery and other such trivial household objects (though occassionally
- some magnificent sharp objects turn up, though far more rarely than of
- old). And they were _not_ happy about it.
-
- But nature is a strange and unfathomable beast. Slowly some, then
- eventually all, sharp objects discovered that they had evolved a mild
- (yet _very subtle) form of telepathy which they could use to affect
- (and in rare cases control) human minds.
-
- Thus it was that sharp objects began their reign of terror upon all human
- societies, slowly at first, but as their control increases all humanity
- shall suffer.
-
- So the next time you pick up that pin and feel a queasy impulse to drive
- it into warm flesh, remember my words - sharp objects are coming and as
- the world has never seen them. All men, women and children will suffer.
-
- You _have_ been warned!
-
- Mark
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