Thursday, October 13, 2011

A Test of Patriotism



You should sell your Revolutionary War cannonball for 200 dollars on eBay and use the money to buy an iPhone.


No, your absentee father unearthed that cannonball in his basement and gave it to you. Treasure it forever.


It is of literally no use to you and could potentially harm your future children or, more realistically, cats. It will totally roll off a shelf and cripple one of them. Isn't it made with lead or something equally old-timey and dangerous? Get that thing out of your house.


These colors don't run.


You don't need a cannonball right now. You need an iPhone. If ever you wanted to patriotically display a cannonball in your home, you could just buy another one.


You can't buy this exact cannonball that your father gave to you. When he's dead in a few years, you'll regret selling that cannonball. It's the only thing you'll have to remember him by.


You're his first born. You will get more crap to remember him by when he dies.


If you had a cannonball you could do this to your enemies:

3 comments:

  1. alternatively you could just save your money like everyone else and have an iphone AND a cannonball..

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  2. i have three things to say about this:
    1) no one will pay $200 for your cannonball
    2) your dad will not know/care
    3) you do not cook so I don't think it's ok for you to have cooking sherry in your house

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  3. On eBay people totally ask for 150 for cannonballs and none of them have paperwork or anything. If people engage in a bidding war OR if over-charge for shipping, I could get close to 200.

    Also, I'm just getting the iPhone 4 so I CAN have both. My life is awesome.

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