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A secret black-ops brigade of remote controlled ubermice is tasked with removing cheese from existing domestic mousetraps without becoming ensnared.
The public, aware that their bait is being nibbled without entrapment will naturally demand better mousetraps.
The mousetrap industry will be forced
to respond by reviewing their current designs.
A mouse/trap 'arms-race' will ensue, culminating in a much, much better mousetrap, a leaner mousetrap industry, and employment for thousands.
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is the better-mousetrap necessarily a better mousetrap? |
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Also: The mice can nibble holes in their balaclavas, which might make them better fighters. |
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what's in it for the ordinary mice? |
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[loon] hmm, you make a good point, there may be a stage where the better mouse/trap development spiral goes off into realms otherwise unavailable to regular mice - but it would be quite a way off before it came to that. |
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[po] they can either choose to move to mousetrap free zones or sign up for government funded retraining schemes (skills might include basic mathematics, clock based exercise, or piano tuning) while some will naturally follow more criminal paths and plan to break into the black-ops cheese storage facility in order to break out all of that confiscated cheese. |
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//mouse/trap 'arms-race' //
Of course, as well as gaining us better mousetraps (intermittently), this will also produce faster, more intelligent mice... |
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Hmm, this is all very well z_t, but how does it help to clean the gunk off the rollers in my mouse exactly? |
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1.Better mice means better cheese will have to be
created.
2. Better cheese is good for me, and for the
common mouse I think [po].
3. Better cheese goes well on better continuous
pizza.
4. Better pizza means happier people.
5. Happier people mean more content
nations.
6. More content nations equals world peace. |
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Hell yes, bring on the better mice then! |
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[blissmiss], you have convinced me this is a good idea.
Onward to continuous pizza and world peace ! [+] |
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Will he have a friend called "Penfold"? |
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"squeakers of the world, you have nothing to lose but your cheese" |
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That was the original and it only mistakenly printed as "workers" and "chains", by that the first 10,000 had been printed and the printers couldn't be arsed to redo it. |
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Erm, Neil Asher rat story, the name of which I can't remember, and too idle to look up... |
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