Happy Birthday to Our BEST Contributor on this List

[Brian K. White]

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Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday to Our BEST Contributor on this List


> This public service announcement was brought to you by Laura Brody:
>> 78 candles is a fire hazard.... when we did a cake with
>> 90 candles for my grandfather, it looked like a bonfire. We
>> turned off the lights, but the room didn't get much dimmer.
>
> If they ever make progress on -real- longevity, we could just start 
> putting
> single flash-bang grenades on cakes.  Good up to age 1 million, and it 
> also
> drowns out the bad notes in the singing of Happy Birthday To You...  :)
>
> mark->

I read a little short-short in Analog or Asimovs a long time ago about a 
preindustrial alien race that used plutonium coins for money that they kept 
in little piles in their homes.
The story ends as the greedy protagonist arrives home one day and adds his 
latest take to the pile.

With the way everything is packaged in huge oversized packaging these days 
no one would notice if the government secretly bought all the birthday 
candle manufacturers and put a little plutonium in each one and started 
packaging them in big empty shells like everything else. Storing, shipping, 
no problem. Unwrapping and putting say 640 (640 will be enough for anyone) 
on a cake, no problem. After that your chances increase rapidly each year of 
seeing something few have seen :)

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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