Best bad idea I've had all week

[digitaldiscipline]

User requests equipment upgrade.

"You may have this non-upgrade if you simply say 'Please.' However, if you would like the upgrade, you may attempt to best a member of the Help Desk in a battle of strength, wits, or cunning." ("Oh, you want a wireless keyboard? You have to run a mile faster than so-and-so.")

The expense of the upgrade determines the level of challenge presented. I foresee this into each department eventually becoming a fiefdom with their own champions, perhaps with skilled Ronin for hire across departments as a budgetable line item expense.

There might be a short story or YouTube movie in this concept.

Or maybe I simply need coffee and/or a nap.

Comments

[etcet.livejournal.com]

You're smarter, too, so we'd have to go on to feats of relative strength or something. Or perhaps karaoke. :-)

[ivy]

Hahaha! I would totally have a karaoke duel with you. We need to find a duet to really make it awful. Do you know any musicals?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Uh... a handful. I was in Fiddler, Oklahoma, Music Man, and My Fair Lady in high school, though never as anything but chorus/dancer, rather than a featured singing role. *laugh*

[ivy]

Okay... do you know any duets at all?

Chorus/dancing duel also acceptable! [cracking up]

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Uh... maybe? But not off the top of my head.