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LUDIC LOG
12.14.2004
1.
Imagine you are having dinner with Abraham Lincoln. You have the
ability to warn him in advance that he is going to die, but it might
result in the north losing the Civil War if he lives. Do you
think you could get him to admit he was gay?
27. You are a guest at a sumptuous holiday meal put on by a group
of people whose business you are trying to acquire. They have
something of a high-toned attitude. During the second course, you
discover a cockroach in your food. Do you say anything?
Well, what if they told you that jellied cockroaches were the hot new
trend in cuisine haute?
Do you say anything now, smart guy?
31. You are in a room with two doors leading out. One door
leads to a room full of gold bullion, and the other leads to a
man-eating lion who just lost his millions of dollars in gold bullion
to a gang of psychologically unbalanced architects. Do you think
that architecture would have been a good career for you?
111. You are trapped on a lifeboat with Martin Lawrence and
twenty-one semi-professional Martin Lawrence impersonators. There
is only enough food for twenty people, assuming that most of them do
not holler "I'M SO CRAZY!" all the time. Did you even know there
was such a thing as a Martin Lawrence impersonator? And how do
you get to be only a semi-professional
impersonator of anyone?
129. When you die, do you care what is done with your body?
What if it's something sexual? You'd like that, wouldn't you, you
god-damned pervert? I bet you wouldn't be so happy if they ripped
you into tiny pieces and fed them to sinners like they did our Lord
Jesus. Would you?
134. You have become lost on your way to Crete for a windsurfing
holiday. You approach a fork in the road, one branch of this, you
are somehow certain, leads to your hotel. Two men stand by the
roadside: one always tells the truth, and one always lies.
It should be pretty easy to spot the liar, because all you have to do
is ask him if he's a giant turtle or something, but consider
this: do you think the one who always tells the truth has ever
had a date in his life?
177. If you could be trapped on a desert island with anyone,
historical or fictional, wouldn't you have to be kind of an idiot not
to pick Superman, seeing as how he could get both of you off the desert
island without even breaking a sweat?
281. Which of your senses would you least like to lose? Are
you counting 'sense of humor' as a sense? How about 'sense of
honor'? 'Sense of balance'? How about 'Sense and Sensibility'? Would
you really want to live in a world without Jane Austen?
303. While you're out strolling with your young infant son one
day, you are approached by a pair of wealthy, perverse Arab
oilmen. Each offers you one billion dollars in exchange for the
boy. One of them intends to adopt your child as his own, raising
it well and giving it the best education and care; the other plans to
torture the child to death. But because of their beastly foreign
jibber-jabber, you can't tell which is which. Why on earth would
you even care?
TODAY'S DRIFTWOOD: "The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of
their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply:
'Do not do what you are doing now'."
(Joseph Ray)