365 Days of Drabbles: Day Eighty-Three
Mar. 25th, 2013 04:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalFor Hellhound: "It was named after its unfortunate inventor"
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There were three problems. One, it was a nuclear bomb the size of a house. Two, it was armed. Three, he was standing right next to the thing.
"Oh, it was never designed to be dropped from a plane," the colonel told him. "It was built for the highway administration."
"What?" he asked.
"The idea was to blow up mountains to make it easier to build the interstate system. You had to love the '50s."
"And now I have to turn it off," he said. "I don't suppose the project engineer is still around?"
"Sorry, Dr. Buttecrack died years ago."
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There were three problems. One, it was a nuclear bomb the size of a house. Two, it was armed. Three, he was standing right next to the thing.
"Oh, it was never designed to be dropped from a plane," the colonel told him. "It was built for the highway administration."
"What?" he asked.
"The idea was to blow up mountains to make it easier to build the interstate system. You had to love the '50s."
"And now I have to turn it off," he said. "I don't suppose the project engineer is still around?"
"Sorry, Dr. Buttecrack died years ago."
