[plug] [OT] pillow fights (was: Columbia)

[Bret Busby]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Leon Brooks wrote:

> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 21:43:01 +0800
> From: Leon Brooks <leon at brooks.fdns.net>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] [OT] pillow fights (was: Columbia)
> Resent-Date: Sun,  2 Feb 2003 21:42:36 +0800 (WST)
> Resent-From: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> 
> On Sunday 02 February 2003 07:32 pm, Bret Busby wrote:
> > I remember an episode of MASH ([aside elided]), in which Hawkeye Pearce
> > said that the leaders of both sides; the USA and the North Koreans,
> > should be given pillows, and that they should beat each other senseless,
> > and that that should then be all that was involved, and the end to the
> > conflict.
> 
> Scoring would be a problem, but that would have to wait until the problem of 
> how to get both sets of leaders to cooperate in the scheme was solved.
> 

Who said anything about scoring, and winners and losers? The objective 
was for the participants to beat themselves senseless. Put 'em in a 
padded cell .. you don't need them to co-operate, for that...

> There has been much good SciFi written along those lines, and an interesting 
> on in which *any* participant in a court could be found guilty of stuff and 
> maybe executed: witnesses, the judge, lawyers, prosecution, defense, janitor, 
> the lot. Now *that* would be an interesting experiment.
> 
> 

You don't need sci-fi, to see it. I saw a senile magistrate, who was 
supposed to have been put out on a funny farm years before, want to 
convict the police prosecution for dropping a case for lack of evidence. 
Yes, folks, right here in Perth. The current A-G knew of the senility, 
and said that was okay.



-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams, 
  published by Pan Books, 1992 
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