My vote - airline seating designers
Feb. 24th, 2010 02:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemonkeysJust heard a phrase that I haven't heard for ages. "Come the revolutions [insert group here] will be first up against the wall and shot". Or some variation thereof.
A couple of things come to mind. First, it isn't ever anybody who would actually be considered a capital punishment target. Its usually marketing people or telemarketers etc.
Second, as a phrase, it almost seems a reverse victim of celebrity. Douglas Adams use a variation of it to make a joke about the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation in HHGTTG. They were, in a future version of the guide, "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came". The thing is, I haven't heard anybody use the phrase since Adams made that joke. Until today that is.
So, come the revolution, who would you line up against the wall? Assuming you hadn't been lined up first.
A couple of things come to mind. First, it isn't ever anybody who would actually be considered a capital punishment target. Its usually marketing people or telemarketers etc.
Second, as a phrase, it almost seems a reverse victim of celebrity. Douglas Adams use a variation of it to make a joke about the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation in HHGTTG. They were, in a future version of the guide, "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came". The thing is, I haven't heard anybody use the phrase since Adams made that joke. Until today that is.
So, come the revolution, who would you line up against the wall? Assuming you hadn't been lined up first.