Finding a Needle in a Haystack
I came to think about various ways of finding a needle in a haystack - and I mean an actual needle in an actual haystack. I’m not speaking metaphorically or talking about searching arrays or anything like that. Just imagine a huge pile of hay and somewhere in there there’s a needle that you - for whatever reason - absolutely must find.
Well, I came up with a couple of ways…
- Start digging through the pile with your hands and hope that the needle will prick you.
- Wreck a couple of bass speakers and use the magnets to go through the pile.
- Burn down the stack and use the speaker magnets mentioned in 2 to go over the ashes.
- Ask someone to have sex in the haystack (don’t tell them about the needle) and count on Murphey’s Law doing a satisfactory job.
I’m sure there’s a lot of great analogies in these approaches and you’re very welcome to use them, they’re GPL’ed.
December 9th, 2005 at 5:00 pm
If i don’t find the needle, the needle will have to find me.
January 20th, 2006 at 10:34 pm
What about simplifically just let your body drop down in the haystack with the ass first - and figure out if the needle finds you or you find the needle? *giggle*
Or is it rather a question about if the ASS finds the needle or the needle finds the ass? ;-D
February 11th, 2006 at 9:59 am
Magnets’ a great idea, but what do you do if your needle is made of bone - which, I believe, they were made of in the “good old days”?
Think a little about that! :)
February 11th, 2006 at 10:18 am
Anja >>
I think your suggestion kinda falls under no. 4 - Murphey’s Law. ;)
Tess >>
Hmm, I was hoping to find a needle preferably from this century (or the previous one), but a bone one… I guess you could let a dog loose on the pile and wait quietly till you hear choking sounds from the dog. :-p But then the task just becomees finding a needle in a dog… Not much easier I’m afraid.
Or perhaps invent some kind of bone magnet… :-p
February 14th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
Murphey’s law will always remain… will always be the biggest truth of the 21th Century… I don’t dare think of the day to come when M’s law isn’t guilty anylonger :-D
What about writing about downloading the human conscience to a computer now we are discussing the new terabyte-computers? ;-) Possibly a bone needle will fit in the cabinet - I don’t think a magnet would be explicitly appropriate in this case *LOL*
February 26th, 2006 at 9:06 am
A part of Murphy’s law includes that if you are trying to prove it, you will fail.
So don’t try to work with it either.