RES: [UA] This is the sort of thing...

[David M Jacobs]

At 06:28 PM 11/05/02 -0300, DL wrote:

>P.S.: 46 bucks for a damn paintbrush??? Someone wallet must be haunted. :)

Well, we've seen the haunted painting and the haunted paintbrush on eBay... 
I'm waiting for the haunted retarder medium, myself:

"My paint takes a supernaturally long time to dry, and even when it does, 
all the colours run together if you apply more paint!  I swear, it's trying 
to tell me something!  Take it off my hands now!  SOLD: highest bidder 
GullibleWanker $289,572.45."

But still, I have some ideas for the paintbrush itself.  Perhaps the 
paintbrush isn't haunted, but merely intelligent and psychokinetic.  It's 
going on holiday, you see, getting around by the paintbrush equivalent of 
hitchhiking: getting people to buy it, scaring the crap out of them and 
being sold across the country.

Perhaps it's on the run.  The question is, though, who would want a 
psychokinetic paintbrush dead?  Or maybe it _is_ really haunted, possessed 
by the soul of PT Barnum, posthumously trying to channel the Merchant 
through a paintbrush?  Who knows?

It's times like this that I realise just how much I need a coffee.  Pity 
that my sugarpot's trying to kill me, though.  #%o)



David M Jacobs
dmjacobs at zipworld.com.au
http://www.zipworld.com.au/~dmjacobs/
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"'Kevin,' David interrupted, 'what the Germans should have done
was show the Russians a dead cat and ask them to explain it.'

"'That would have stopped the Soviet offensive right there,' I said.
"Zhukov would still be trying to account for the cat's death.'"

— from Valis, by Philip K Dick


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