ONE MINUTE RETALIATIONS: A RECAPITULATION
The
One Minute Retaliation
works
best:
1. When
you wish upon a star
Makes
no difference who you
are
When you wish upon a
star
Your dreams come
true
2. Act immediately and
ruthlessly.
3. Give people
fifteen minutes to evacuate the target.
4. Tell people how
fortunate they are that you don't destroy the entire
planet.
5. Stop for a few
seconds of terrifying silence to let everyone realize how thoroughly pissed you
are.
6. Offer emergency aid to the
devastated areas.7. Speak
kindly of the dead.8.
Reaffirm your right and responsibility to modify behavior by any means at
hand.9. Realize that
although you were not able to escalate this retaliation into a full scale
conventional war, there will be other
opportunities.
The young man was not at all surprised
to find himself heading toward the office of the
One Minute
President, marveling at the
simplicity of the One Minute
Method.
All
three of the
pretenses—Wishes,
Gladhands,
and
Retaliations—made
absolutely no sense, and as such they bore up well against all logic and any
rational observation. "But why do they work?" he still wondered. "Why is the
One Minute
President considered the most
efficient and nicest guy on the face of the Earth?"
Posted: Sat
- March 14, 1987 at 09:01 PM
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