Friday, September 19, 2008

For Your Consideration

What if, instead of buses, we rode giant dragons as mass transit?
What if Beth Lykins ate curry for breakfast every morning?
What if "truth in advertising" were enforced voraciously?
What if "truth in advertising" were not enforced at all?
What if the world were exactly the way we think it is?
What if gas went down to $0.10/gal next week?
What if we were all air-powered robots?
What if the value of Pi suddenly became 2.141592654...?
What if the value of pie suddenly became $100/lb?
What if all the ice in the world suddenly melted, and the greatest worry we had was that our lemonade would be warm?
What if parking at IUPUI were actually easy?
What if all our questions were answered by little imps that sat on our shoulders?
What if the word "orange" had a rhyme?
What if sexual intercourse were painful?
What if prohibition were re-enacted today?
What if road signs were designed by 14-year-old girls?
What if road signs were designed by 90-year-old men?
What if everything we needed, needed us instead?
What if McDonald's was considered "haute cuisine"?
What if McDonald's served haute cuisine?
What if we saw death as the beginning?
What if eating made you thinner and exercise made you fatter?
What if everyone got a chance to choose their race?
What if worms really did come in cans?
What if graffiti were admired, and art museums frowned upon?
What if "Fly Paper" was a periodical for insects?
What if someone lived in a self-storage facility?
What if schools had to be underwater?
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¿uʍop-ǝpısdn ǝʇoɹʍ 11ɐ ǝʍ ɟı ʇɐɥʍ
What if most of the world still believed in sorcery?
What if priests' confessionals were also gas chambers?
What if a courthouse included an actual basketball court, in which the loser went to jail?
What if we all took everything literally?
What if ordinary citizens settled their differences with pistols at twenty paces?
What if the internet had existed in the Old West? (Gunfight at the OK/Cancel Corral)
What if video had been available to the ancient Romans? (Edit tu, Brute?)
What if today's political climate had been present during the Baroque period? (Barack me Obamadeus)
What if the ancient Egyptians had had iPods? (Rameses had a Zune)
What if we had the capability to travel back and forth through time at will?
What if Polka were considered "pop music?"
What if we all threw away our clothes once they were dirty?
What if the Civil War had never ended?
What if the Revolutionary War had never ended?
What if the Beatles were still recording today?
What if we already had commercial space tourism?
What if we made first contact with aliens next week?
What if we'd never heard of Wal-Mart?
What if we could swim in ice, walk on steam, and breathe water?
What if the world had developed to look like the "steampunk" sci-fi?

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