GOODLAUG Guides
Soul
Destroying Work.
GOODLAUG’s
guide
to soul-destroying work that you can make someone do if you’re rich and
they’re not.
Take someone
to the edge of the
Sahara desert and tell them to clean the mess that this sand has made,
Instruct them to pick up every grain. If they ask what they are to do
with any mirages they find, tell them to discard them as well. When
you’re pushing 90 go back and see if they’re done yet but they’ll most
likely still be in Egypt.
Why is
it soul-destroying? Because most deserts are bigger than peoples
lifetimes.
Pay someone
to count to a million
with the rule that if they lose count they have to start at the
beginning. Pay them a pound for every number but at the end they won’t
have any soul left to be a millionaire.
Why is
it soul-destroying? Because if a millionaire had to count every pound
they’d rather be a pauper.
In a similar
style to prison
labour, instruct someone to dig a hole in the ground and then claim
you’re not satisfied with it and get them to fill it in again and then
start digging somewhere else until you get bored with that.
This was
the prison labour inflicted on the prisoners from “Cool Hand Luke”, the
whole point of prison is to destroy your soul so you never feel like
committing crime again
Commission a
giant picture of a
messy floor in a kitchen and place it down on the floor of a real
kitchen and laminate it so it appears like lino. And then employ a
cleaner and after 6 hours of getting nowhere tell them they’re doing a
job not worthy of 1p a hour and you have seen cleaner toothbrushes that
have dropped in oil.
Why is
it soul-destroying? Because pictures are meant to be preserved and dirt
is not.
Attempt to a
make a map of Britain
in real-life scale, don’t bother including any forest areas because
they’ll all be gone you’ll have used so much paper. Hewlett Packard’s
business will be swimming in it.
Why is it
soul-destroying? It won’t
make the Ordnance Survey go out of business because these maps won’t
fit into peoples pockets, in fact a map of their pocket wouldn’t at
this scale.
Instruct a
diver to locate a rare
fish that has only ever been seen once in the whole world, he will have
to trawl the entire worlds oceans looking for it, it will feel like
watching Finding Nemo in hell.
If you live
by the coast with a
garden that backs onto the sea, employ someone to clean out your
swimming pool, but you don’t have a swimming pool.
Employ
someone to handwrite a copy
of The Lord Of The Rings because you want to read it in nice
handwriting. Give them a fountain pen that needs to be written with
delicately. If they have never read The Lord Of The Rings before now
they will thoroughly absorb it.
If you are a
commissioning editor
at ITV, bring back the Challenge Anneka program and make it the object
of the series to find a needle in a giant haystack, give them 12
episodes to pinpoint it. If they successfully do it as a grand finale
light the haystack on fire, soon the temperature will be so hot the
needle will melt.
Get an
aspiring astronomer to make
a thorough catalogue of every star in the whole universe. Stipulate
that they must provide details of all orbiting planets, asteroid belts
and satellites found in each solar system and also tell them that they
must log every comet and meteor they find along the way.
Commission
someone to design a car
that is capable of launching into outer space with the proviso that you
will blow it up if it is not able to perform the task.
If you are
the minister of
transport try to persuade your department to open a by-pass in a
particularly green and pleasant area that is well known for
environmentalists and people with naturalistic beliefs.
Invite some
guests to a honorary
dinner and serve up a bucket of plain rice with no flavourings
With the
promise of payment when
every single grain has been downed.
Build a life
like replica of RMS
Titanic with every single detail of the original ship recreated
perfectly. And then sail it in the Atlantic looking for icebergs to
re-enact the disaster to every detail and as no cameras or video
equipment were invented, ban them from the ship. Once your re-created
Titanic sequel has downed blow up the remains with a controlled
undersea explosion.
Instruct
someone to paraphrase a
whole book.
Mow the lawn
of an entire field,
and then list each blade of grass separately for sale on Ebay.
In the item
description catalogue
them according to blade height, thickness and brilliance on green, and
test each one for their likelihood level of causing you a grass cut.
In a few
months you’ll have earned
enough postage to buy a bigger landmower, only to start all over again.
If a
satellite or cable channel
gets the rights to repeat classic episodes of Coronation Street &
Emmerdale from the beginning offer to subtitle them free of charge.
Employ
someone to work as a
security guard on an abandoned oil rig. Give them a barrel to sleep in
and warn that the Danes and Vikings might be mounting an invasion on
the high seas
Imminently.
Give someone
the keys to a JCB with
the instruction to swap the positions of a mountain and valley around.
In other
words dig a mountain up
and move it into a valley, and where the mountain was there should now
be a valley.
Assign a
street cleaner to clean up
an entire town’s autumn leaves and then the next day, instruct them to
sprinkle them back down on the town for the Autumn festival.
Take a
picture of yourself being
sick and then get an artist to do a dot matrix of it. Be sure to eat
plenty of carrots and sprouts in preparation for it.
Get a time
machine and go back to
the era of King Wencelas and burst into the castle during one of his
feasts and get a job doing the dishes.
Employ
someone to thoroughly edit
and bring up to date all of the Channel’s website with fresh, new and
interesting content.
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