Totally Stolen from Deb T
Our friend Deb T sent me this early this morning.
While we are at it, I honestly can’t think of a Sci-fi/fantasy stories in which a giant wall is effective at holding back a threat:
– Game of Thrones
– Attack on Titan
– The Passage
– Zone One
– King Kong
Heck even fences don’t work – Jurassic Park(s)
Stories in which a wall proves to be totally effective?
Humpty Dumpty.
Yeah, it’ll be kinda fun to see Trump fall off his wall.
The wall didn’t keep the zombies out in WORLD WAR Z either.
1I don’t want that wall because I don’t want to live in a prison. Maybe the Mafia POTUS would be more comfortable there, but that ain’t my bag.
2WA Skeptic #2,
I have the exact same concern. What if the wall were used to keep US citizens from leaving?
The Berlin wall didn’t work either.
3Patience, Donnie, patience. You’ll soon have all the concrete, walls and concertina wire of your dreams … surrounding you.
4Hitler had a wall too. It worked flawlessly from 1942 until June 6th 1944. And btw airplanes still flew over his wall by the hundreds. Ask those Nazi firms in the Ruhr valley how doGdamned well that wall worked for THEM.
5Micr, Vincente Fox already explained how Mexico isn’t paying for any wall. He was too subtle, perhaps. Maybe El Chapo can discuss a tunnel deal with Donnie.
6Had to share:
Joyously reported and commented upon at Joe.My.God
“Thousands of people have signed a petition in New York City to rename the block in front of Trump Tower after former President Obama. A petition is calling for the stretch of Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets to be renamed ….The petition would require President Trump to formally change the address of his Trump Tower building, where his 2020 reelection campaign will be headquartered on the 15th floor.”
7Re. Jane & PKM: extreme vetting/background check buyers of DitchWitch horizontal drilling equipment.
A pneumatic conduit will allow more throughput of drugs under a wall. Think of the bank drive throughs.
8So there are anime watchers here?
9J7915, since Donnie prefers taking us back in the direction of the Stone Age, I’d volunteer to demonstrate how far a slingshot could deliver a sizeable rock over a fence. We could run a benefit contest with the winner being the person to declare how many rocks would be needed to hit Donnie before he grabbed a clue. No clue, no winner, bring in the catapults ….
10“Trumpty-Dumpty wanted a wall…”
Take it from here, poets.
11Susan on the Left Coast, do you have to live in NYC to sign it, and if not, where is it?
12Jane & PKM says:
We used to be rookie Artillery Experts when we were about 12. Rockets and fireworks, and bad decisions. I made it out with all of my fingers, but it was close a few times.
13@Oliphant
@Jane & PKM
When it comes to catapults, I’m all in for the trébuchet. If one can be built to chunk a VW Beetle a quarter of a mile, once can be built to gently land a payload of loose excrement on that ferret living on the sitting president’s head.
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