How to Make Anything Sound Cool
by Tony on Tuesday, 13 of February, 2007 at 4:49 pm
One of the things I plan to do when writing on this blog is to take everything that’s been cluttering up my brain and place it here, on these pages. This is one of those things that has my brain cluttered. Don’t be fooled though, even though it’s clutter, it is still extremely interesting and worthwhile. I am now about to clean it out and hope it doesn’t leave a stain.
So here goes: no matter what it is, no matter what you’re talking about, you can always make it sound cool if you add the following to the end: …of death, or …of doom.
Let’s try it, shall we?
- The station wagon. The station wagon OF DEATH.
- The banana peel. The banana peel OF DOOM.
- The monkey. The monkey OF DEATH. The monkey OF DOOM is also nice.
- The Easter Bunny. The Easter Bunny OF DEATH.
See how much cooler all those things sounded when you added those words? Another handy trick I like to use is to preface everything with the word EVIL.
The EVIL station wagon OF DEATH sounds even better, don’t you think? I also like the evil Easter Bunny of Death. That’s my kind of Easter Bunny.
What does this have to do with scifi? Well, you just try to write a story without an evil Easter Bunny in it and see how far that gets you. Even the best scifi on TV, Battlestar Galactica has an evil Easter Bunny of death.
SPOILER:
Not only is Baltar NOT a cylon, but a mysterious Easter basket full of brightly colored eggs will be discovered in his quarters later this season. You heard it here first people. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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Comment by Julie
Made Friday, 27 of April , 2007 at 5:02 am
“Let’s try it, shall we?”
