I should get used to this. I will never be the first to think of something. Or at least, something cool that anyone other than, say, my boss would care about.
Case in point: I was listening to the radio a few days ago, really half-listening, probably in the kitchen making lunch, and someone says "semi-automatic weapons". Because I was not really fully listening, and because I'm, well, weird, my brain parsed that as "semiotic weapons".
Semiotic weapons. What a great phrase! I could build an SF story around that. (Unless Iain M. Banks already has -- Use of Semiotic Weapons? Or maybe he named a ship that at some point.) Or it could be a great name for a punk band. Or...wait a second....
Sigh. (Okay, this query only gets 53 hits, instead of 466,000, but still.)
Once again, I am way behind the times.
2 comments:
Perhaps you'd be better served being more extreme than trying to be the first to think of something cool, because the extreme always seem to make an impression.
Thank you for my weekly dose of Heathers nostalgia....
<grin>
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