The Alternative Advent: Day 1
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds—
Constantly…
As true as this little ditty may be, I’m a great believer in giving the mediocre mind a voice so their ideas can be violently laughed at by greater ones, just so I can put these awful people in their place, instil a few manners and bring a little order and decorum to world. I would however prefer a little less barracking, a little more embracing; and positively no snootiness at all. Especially, when it is an ideas month.
It is because for the fourth time I have declared it so. Gone are the days once more of the advent countdown where we feast on miniature chocolates and welcome to the 21st Century count up, complete with animated tree. And as before, I intend to invent a brilliant idea per day until Christmas— as Linus Pauling said, the best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas and bollocks to the chocolate.
It’s been a while since I took leave with the many monkeys I had under my wing and allowed them room to flap into hat shops in search of the perfect fitting trilby. No mean feat— in fact it’s a deliberately assaulting one, since their heads are a little on the petite side.
And post hoc ergo propter hoc— they tend to require certain necessitations previously unheard of in respectable outfitters, as their clientèle are traditionally more evolved. Hat sizes in the 32th inch for instance are a curiosity that extends beyond their woolly bodies and into the vast canyons of their toothy grins. For they must ‘eek’ and ‘akk’ loquaciously and skittle mannequins before catching so much as a glimpse from a tape measure; and though they may hold out for a tickle up the inside-leg, they generally make do with some brand spanking head-wear.
So, with that cleared up and as we’re already on day one, I felt like warming up to the task with an idea that is far from warm but very, very cool…
We’ve had the book, the film and we’ve had the rock opera. But we haven’t had:
War of the Worlds … on ice
It’s such a novel concept— because we wouldn’t have to wait for the Martians to catch a cold. Just trick them into using the Heat Ray and wait for them to sink!
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas…
George Bernard Shaw
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….. and Mr Shaw, two part time workers are worth more than one full time worker…..( but probably not paid so well as the full time worker, pro rata…..)
You could be right about that! 😀
Though I read some rather interesting data on zero-hour workers last week which may be worth commenting upon, once I’ve cleared the backlog of a thousand things first!
I’m back home after a tortuous journey yesterday, so hopefully I can catch up and get my swing back. I do like to take a break from everything when away from my desk – otherwise it defeats the purpose of breaking it… But what a mess we come back to!
Does GBS’s wisdom ever stop? In this case, though, if you give me an idea, we’ll each have one … regrettably.
He is immensely quotable, one of my favourites for sure, because there’s always a delicious simplicity to his reasoning!
I don’t believe that for one minute! I think you should have a play too. Any apples will be welcome – which, will be relevant shortly, had Einstein ever had scurvy of course!
p.s. i love scrabble pieces and i make collage art using letters and words pieced together like ransom notes, so i was drawn to today’s post and could not take my eyes of the letters. p.s.s. i love your ice show theme idea and would like to offer up a ‘breaking bad – the electric bugaloo on ice’ idea for next season perhaps.
Hahaha! Any and all ideas will be welcome to mull over 😀 I love collage too – I just hope I can produce something appropriate every day with out resorting to anything too ordinary!
I’ve written so much about Antarctic exploration and know the diaries, accounts, film and photography really well – I have a tie in later, which was to be a preamble, but I completely forgot to prepare before leaving for my trip… The importance of the apple will become clear too!
It’s all about chewing stuff over! Thank goodness for scrabble! 😀