The average person probably wouldn’t know an alien if it walked up to them in a snappy three-piece suit and slick shoes.
Which of course begs the question: would an intelligent extraterrestrial life-form wear a three-piece suit?
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One day, many many years ago, a group of people are attempting to conjure a good metaphor for death.
After a short time with everyone pondering what a metaphor even is, one suggests the image of a man reaping a field of grain. It is roundly accepted as being apt…but not enough…
So someone else says, “what if it isn’t a man, what if it’s a skeleton?”
Almost as soon as this is said, another adds “yeah, a skeleton in a scary black robe with a big hood!”
Everybody sitting there at the table (because it’s a sales meeting, after all) says, “oooooooo that’s good.”
So is born one of the most pervasive of cross-cultural icons.
Personally I always imagined the personification of Death as something of an asshole.
By now, it should be common knowledge that babies are born ugly and/or goo-covered little things. Often both.
Phrases like this are fun. It sounds remarkably disingenuous, regardless of how much feeling you attempt to put into it. Awesome.
I would say there is a pretty good chance that most people ask themselves this at least once in their lifetime. It is a pretty popular question.
It has nothing to do with torture, it has to do with the fact that he would much rather be baker a chef or something.
This is a tactic that is usually doomed to failure.
In a way, it is a lot like politics.
It’s good to have a lot of friends, because you never know when your personal survival might depend of having someone handy.
One can make an argument that capital punishment is wrong or right. But whichever you choose, I put it to you: it can always be made funny.
Just maybe not in a ha-ha kind of way.
There are few writers as relentlessly depressing and melancholic as ol’ Ed.
I’m such a big fan.