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General
Selling a general as a product | |
Used generals are known to produce trouble in time, if
they are not doing some productive job. Especially if they
were ousted from their position.
So, I propose to have a listing of used generals for sale.
People could buy the general (of course they don't come
cheap) and use them as ornaments,
or they could be useful
as fantastic safety officers at large high-tech firms, giving
out orders that everybody has to abide to.
Last but not least, there could be a market for them as the
managers of air travel companies, since almost all
generals have a "military wings" insignia, showing that
they received a pilots license and they have been
commanders of the air force at one time or the other.
Now _this_ is a product.
Tumbleweed_20Dispenser
[MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 23 2013]
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It seems people cannot seem to find generals
amusing. |
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Amusing generals are hard to find; generally one finds
generals aren't amusing. |
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We once got an SS Sturmbannführer (at a major
discount, too!) and his value went to the moon. I
would think, though, that those results were not
typical. |
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//an SS Sturmbannführer (at a major discount,
too!)// That's because you can't get the
ammunition for them these days. |
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As to the idea - ha ha meh. A pun on the 'general'
category. Take that out and we are left with "X type
of people should be sold for miscellaneous uses." |
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Well, your family has made a nice profit out
of that attitude over the centuries, so you're
not exactly perfectly placed to criticise … |
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Hmm, I think there should be some kind of general transfer scheme, like for sports players. Imagine if we had laid out on a German field-marshal before WWII, or the French had swapped eight of the own generals + cash for a three year contract for Marshal Zhukov? |
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Luckily the Germans had already decided on their own strategic asset transfer scheme by deporting Jewish physicists to Europe and America. |
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So what if it started off as a pun? It has a merit of its
own. It may be an idea
that will change the 21'st century (in general). |
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Anyways, we all miss bris. Thanks for link Max. |
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// Luckily the Germans had already decided on their own strategic asset transfer scheme by deporting Jewish physicists to Europe and America. // |
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It worked so well that after WWII the U.S. kept the scheme going and imported large numbers of German and Japanese scientists and engineers. The U.S. got to the moon first because their Germans were better than the Russians Germans. |
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