We have a customer at work who has specified his job to be constructed entirely with stainless steel screws Stainless steel screws are very expensive, about $1 each, and we estimate using 600 or so. They are also very hard to find and come in limited lengths. But this is what he wants, and accepts the additional cost with cheery cheerfulness. He lives by the sea, you see. Worried about the little buggers rusting. Which is ridiculous unless he actually lives in the sea…you see.65,000 years from now monkey-archeologists will dig on that site and discover 600 pointed metal objects all arranged at right angles to one another, like runes from the ancients. And the monkey-archeologists will gather round in wonder at the incredible discovery and they will say “What a fucking dickhead. Used fucking stainless steel screws! Do you know what they cost?”
2 comments:
no, no, it's 65,000 years in the future...all the scientists are dead. The monkeys evolved to fill the void, and because it sucks living in the trees.
Oddly enough, they all evolved to speak English. But you see from Star Trek etc that most advanced civilizations speak English, so its not that far-fetched.
It's like Space 2000.
The monkeys looked at the monolyth, in wonder. Probably thought, what the hell, marble has a more asethetic value!
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