And what do we burn apart from Senatorial candidates?

[mrissa]

While waiting in yet another doctor's office yesterday, Timprov came up with a new method for determining the outcome of the Minnesota Senatorial race. I was initially skeptical of this, as I feel that having two Senators puts oneself forward awfully and is immodest and un-Minnesotan and probably we should let them know that it's really no bother and we can just have one.

But Timprov's solution is this: we take the two main Senatorial candidates and throw them in a lake. Whoever drowns is the Senator. Whoever does not drown is the witch, and we have all sorts of good logs here in Minnesota we can dry out for that eventuality.

markgritter noted that this would leave Gov. Pawlenty in charge of appointing a replacement, but I don't see why a dead Senator is any less use to us than an unelected one, and Timprov magnanimously allowed that whatever other state officials might look difficult could also join the Senatorial candidates in the lake and solve the potential witch problem for the whole state and not just this one office.

There, aren't you glad we were here?

Comments

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

Sounds totally logical to me. I say go for it.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

More Senatorial candidates!

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

hm. Makes as much sense as what's going on now...

[akitrom.livejournal.com]

And if they both sink?

Or, as is likely, both candidates are neck-and-neck in their efforts to suffocate, but one just barely drowns faster than the other, whereupon the losing candidate initiates a lawsuit arguing the the drowned senator used an illegal number of out-of-state rocks in his pockets.

Besides which, Minnesota doesn't burn witches anymore. We send them to the House.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We are willing to live with ambiguity if they both sink.

[sethb.livejournal.com]

And if they both sink?

You ask as if that's a bad thing.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

OK, this is the only funny thing to come out of this endless Senate race. You rock.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Really? I thought the song Timprov wrote was funny, but now I forget where he put it.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Really. Mostly when I think about the whole mess I want to throw things.

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

I am glad you're here and all my law makers are glad you,re *there*.

[aedifica]

I'd been wondering what I was missing by not having listened to the radio for the last few months, after a twice-a-day habit. Apparently the senate race is still going?

Sounds like a reasonable solution to me.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

They keep assuring us that we are Much Closer Now.

We don't believe them.

perspective

[rmnilsson.livejournal.com]

I'm just grateful that I live in a place where a very close election just means a long court case and not an armed conflict.

Re: perspective

[akitrom.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. In another six months, you may re-think that position.

I keep returning to: "What Would Jesse Do?" Do you think Norm could take Al in a best-two-of-three fall?

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

If they include a ducking stool I'll buy a round of tickets for the house.

[mightyjesse.livejournal.com]

This? This is why I love you in your brain. Your whole insane fambly. Love.