Drabble Post - Non-Answer (SK)
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mintysage is half responsible. I'm not quite sure when or how we started headcanoning Razor as being a bit of a troll, but we did. It's fun.
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The darkness of MegaKat City’s underground service tunnels fell away, and T-Bone blinked to adjust to the sudden light. Ahead, the latest bomb-crazy maniac was swinging his armored motorcycle left to blast through a chainlink fence. T-Bone started to follow. Until he caught sight of the faded metal sign dangling from the ruined fence. He immediately swung the Cyclotron around, skidding to a stop.
“Idiot just drove into a Megawar II bombing range!” he growled.
“Eh,” Razor tapped his glovatrix, “bombs that old won’t go off.”
“Seriously?” Because that didn’t mesh with anything T-Bone knew.
“Probably.”
“Probably they won’t or probably they will?”
“Yes.”
That was when T-Bone turned enough to catch the mischievous grin tugging at his partner’s mouth.
“Haha.” He cuffed Razor lightly. “C’mon, let’s get the TurboKat and see if we can pluck the idiot outta there before he blows himself up.”
“Already called it,” Razor answered.
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Notes: This was inspired by watching an excellent video on the history of Hong Kong Disneyland over at Defunctland's YouTube Channel. In describing an incident where dredging for the park uncovered leftover WWII bombs, the narrator comments, "The bomb experts assured Disney and the workers that bombs that old won't go off. Although, they did mention that sometimes they do."
mintysage is half responsible. I'm not quite sure when or how we started headcanoning Razor as being a bit of a troll, but we did. It's fun.Non-Answer
The darkness of MegaKat City’s underground service tunnels fell away, and T-Bone blinked to adjust to the sudden light. Ahead, the latest bomb-crazy maniac was swinging his armored motorcycle left to blast through a chainlink fence. T-Bone started to follow. Until he caught sight of the faded metal sign dangling from the ruined fence. He immediately swung the Cyclotron around, skidding to a stop.
“Idiot just drove into a Megawar II bombing range!” he growled.
“Eh,” Razor tapped his glovatrix, “bombs that old won’t go off.”
“Seriously?” Because that didn’t mesh with anything T-Bone knew.
“Probably.”
“Probably they won’t or probably they will?”
“Yes.”
That was when T-Bone turned enough to catch the mischievous grin tugging at his partner’s mouth.
“Haha.” He cuffed Razor lightly. “C’mon, let’s get the TurboKat and see if we can pluck the idiot outta there before he blows himself up.”
“Already called it,” Razor answered.
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Notes: This was inspired by watching an excellent video on the history of Hong Kong Disneyland over at Defunctland's YouTube Channel. In describing an incident where dredging for the park uncovered leftover WWII bombs, the narrator comments, "The bomb experts assured Disney and the workers that bombs that old won't go off. Although, they did mention that sometimes they do."
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Date: 2019-03-26 12:23 am (UTC)You know, this reminds me of Avon Park Air Force Range back in Florida. "Hey outdoorsy folks, you're welcome to hunt/fish/camp on our grounds... but just remember the Air Force has been doing live bombing practice here for sixty years. So, you know, please and thanks to not be picking up all the potentially deadly unexploded ordnance lying around."
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Date: 2019-03-26 01:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-03-26 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-03-27 01:23 pm (UTC)*then cracks up* Now, I'm reminded of a joke from one of my movie reviewers. Apparently, the monster movie "Gorgo" was supposedly almost set in Australia except it was decided viewers wouldn't be as invested in an attack on Australia as one on London. The reviewer noted that his thought was that, with everything else on the continent trying to kill them, Australians simply wouldn't notice a giant monster.
...So, maybe this is why Godzilla is yet to attack Florida.
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Date: 2019-03-27 08:38 pm (UTC)Pretty much! In fact, Vathara related a story in a comment thread on her blog recently, about an Aussie snake expert who thought Florida was dangerous.
--Apparently, the monster movie "Gorgo" was supposedly almost set in Australia except it was decided viewers wouldn't be as invested in an attack on Australia as one on London.--
Having seen the MST3k version of Gorgo, the funniest part was when they were dealing with the insular Welsh (?) islanders, so I'd say their choice was a good thing. ;Þ
--...So, maybe this is why Godzilla is yet to attack Florida.--
If memory serves, the movie Geostorm assaults Orlando with space lighting or some such absurdity. (It was part of that ridiculous fad of junk-science climate-disaster movies in the last decade or so. As I utterly loathe that whole genre, I haven't seen it, just the CinemaSins roast of it.) ...Although Florida also being the U.S. lightning capitol is another actual fact. *g*
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Date: 2019-03-28 02:21 pm (UTC)I believe they were Irish. The reviewer I saw noted that the one man who speaks Gaelic to the main characters repeats the exact same phrase several times, either an in-joke or the only Gaelic the actor knew.
--If memory serves, the movie Geostorm assaults Orlando with space lighting or some such absurdity.--
Oh, wow. I haven't seen that one, but I saw a bit of one of its relatives where giant storms were destroying the world because of a black hole. The way one storm was depicted devouring a building, it looked less like a thunderstorm and more like The Nothing from "The Neverending Story". ...Which would be more plausible.
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Date: 2019-03-28 06:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-03-28 06:44 pm (UTC)