My vote - airline seating designers

[threemonkeys]

Just 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.

Comments

[factioncat]

Landlords. Definitely landlords. Though the firing squad should only take out their kneecaps, oh, and probably their elbows as well just to be safe, after which they should be left to slowly bleed and/or starve to death in agony.

[threemonkeys]

Hmmm - do I detect the hint of a real life problem there :(

[factioncat]

We're being kicked out three and a half months earlier than we were previously informed. This is somewhat inconvenient.

[threemonkeys]

Bugger. Yep - kneecaps, elbows, agony does seem called for in that case.