Monty by Jim Meddick for October 30, 2010
Transcript:
Sedgwick says, "Well, good man, you have quite an encampment here! You must be very proud! Is this your? err? furniture?" Monty says, "Sure, go ahead. Make yourself comfortable." Jarvis says, "Quite remarkable, sir! These actually do support weight!" Sedgwick says, "Really? You don't say?" Jarvis says, "He seems to have fashioned them from some discarded tubing and various straps of plasticized material!" Sedgwick says, "It's truly amazing! The resourcefulness of riffraff living in squalor!..."
pokeystick over 1 year ago
That made me laugh.. if all anyone knew were sturdy old school wooden etc furniture, a lot of what we use would seem like junk. Well, at least it keeps the fossil fuel economy humming away.
Dennett Premium Member 5 months ago
It’s the only economic system that we know to work… anything else eventually leads to economic collapse, mass starvation and freezing in the dark.