Creative Writing: A World Without Engineers
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, on the planet Zovirax,
there was an evil king, King Syphilis, who was mighty pleased with himself, for
he had just banished all the engineers on the planet to work in the Pixie Stick
Powder mines on the moons of Gluteus. "You see," he told his sycophantic
servants and lackeys, "I have solved two problems with one simple executive
order. I have rid the planet of those annoying, nerdy, know-it-all, engineers."
(King Syphilis was actually quite envious of them, because he went to a Junior
University in Palo Alto, and didn't know very much at all.) "And secondly," he
explained, "I have provided cheap slave labor for the Pixie Stick Powder ...
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me my plutonium phasor gun, so that I may vaporize this impudent
guy," ordered the king.
"I'm sorry, my good King Syphilis," replied another servant. "Since you
deported all the nuclear engineers to the powder mines, we have been unable to
operate the plutonium powered phasor gun."
Now the king was really mad. "I'm really mad!" said the king. "Bring me
my limousine, so that I may repeatedly run over these contumelious servants of
mine."
"No can do, Mr. King," said the third servant, whose part will be played
in the movie version by Keanu Reeves. "All the mechanical engineers are in the
mine place, and everyone knows, you can't drive cars without mechanics."
"Go jump off a bridge!" said King Syphilis. Another of his servants
interrupted, "We have no more bridges, since all the civil engineers have been
exiled to the powder mines. Perhaps we should bring them all back."
But the king was not the brightest of kings, so he didn't agree to that
just yet. "Bring me my vibrating ...
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