Friday, January 25, 2008

Proof that you're never fatal enough


I stumbled across this picture by way of the site www.littlegun.be and all I can say is that you just can't be fatal enough. I mean, somebody had the presence of mind to build a pistol into a fish hook.

Consider, for a moment, how you might put this sophisticated piece of steampunk to use:

- You're a horror movie slasher. Finally, you're within striking distance of your victim, but she dances away with the litheness of a gazelle. So you shoot her.
- You've caught the ultimate sockeye salmon, but the fish struggles as you load it into the boat. So you shoot it.
- The bond villain you've relentlessly pursued has captured you and forced you to work behind the bar on his enormous luxury yacht. Luckily, you've convinced him that an ego outsized enough to plan world domination requires a gin and tonic to scale, which in turn requires enormous blocks of ice. Also, very luckily, Q outfitted you with this tool, so that, when the villain takes his first sip, you shoot him. In the back. Because he made you lift all that ice.

As Brian Brown in "F/X" said, about SuperGlue, "A hundred and one uses. Now, a hundred and two."

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