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It’s a pair of age old problems that humanity has not managed
to shake off. Governments have throne money at them for
millennia, with the only apparent result being; a complete lack
of results.
And then it hit me one day; why not kill two birds with one
stone! Feed the homeless, TO the hungry.
This
single, decisive action would clear the world’s streets of
the appalling human detritus left in the wake of capitalism,
AND send the nutritionally challenged home with a full belly.
"A Modest Proposal"
http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html
The idea's at least 272 years old, and was done better then too. [Uncle Nutsy, Aug 01 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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When all the homeless are gone, the hungry will come for you PL. |
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what happens if the hungry are homeless? |
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Johnny Swift couldn't type a few paragraphs, hit 'post,' and have "A Modest Proposal" read by hundreds(?) of his peers. The H and H proposal is Web Swiftian. I'll assume it's a satiric yelp against social injustice and give it a +. |
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PeterSealy: Yeah. I guess one could call Swiftian canibalism proposals well-trampled territory. So, yeah, Baked and brown. Urgh, what am I saying? |
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More likely he got the idea from a bumper sticker I saw which reads "Feed the Homeless...to the Hungry." |
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"Get this, Minister. What if we looked at it as housing the homeless in the hungry?" |
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I can honestly say that I came up with this one
independently; in a vacuum - so to speak. Though it now
appears that I came up with it in a vacuum cleaner.
Unfortunately. |
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Never mind, I'll try harder next time :\ |
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[admin: If you wanted to delete this idea - I'm not saying that you should, just if you wanted to - you could select the link labeled "delete" in the "idea:" menu in the upper left corner.] |
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Unabubba: <squeaky purple-people-eater voice> "I wouldn't eat you 'cause you're too tough!"</sppev> |
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crap idea but i laughed when i read it |
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Marvelous! Swift was a genius! Actually, it's just funny to watch people get mad. =P |
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Funny how nobody's calling for this ideas head! I'd suggest mfd but I think people should be held accountable for being cynical smart-asses. Let the nice people of the halfbakery know who's who. |
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And I thought I was being funny when I made the same crack elsewhere. Good lord, I'm not even original. |
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