Make tiny flea harnesses, and attach them to fleas (millions of them.... using prison labour of course as a suitable additional punishment for those who have committed particularly heinous crimes)

One end of the flea harness is attached to a device which produces a tiny burst of electric current when jerked by even a miniscule amount. Place rows of such tethered fleas in a large matrix and parade shaggy dogs continuously in front of them, just beyond their leaping range.

Results.... a Flea-powered source of electricity, and a place to walk dogs. Call it Flea-Lectricity!
-- xenzag, Nov 07 2012

Flea_20Harness see also [xenzag, Nov 07 2012]

Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
-- normzone, Nov 07 2012


sp. upon their backs to bite ’em
-- pocmloc, Nov 07 2012


actually sp. "and so on, ad infinitum"
-- FlyingToaster, Nov 07 2012


Actually, the original has "and so ad infinitum".

But the original original, on which this was based, went:

"The vermin only tease and pinch
Their foes superior by an inch.
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum."

-- MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 07 2012


^Flea haff vays of making you tock.
-- AusCan531, Nov 07 2012


Check out the Sierpinski flea triangle at the end of this sentence.
-- RayfordSteele, Nov 08 2012


Don't you mean Flectricity?
-- sqeaketh the wheel, Nov 08 2012


So they're... flea circuits?
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Nov 08 2012


Including diodes comprised of tiny one-way turnstiles.
-- sqeaketh the wheel, Nov 08 2012


How many vaults?
-- spidermother, Nov 09 2012



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