"Finish this sentence" re: nukes, exams, and Cabell's post

[perldiver]

So, I was reading Cabell's post about exam dreams and nuclear bomb warnings and it made me think of the following game.

Complete this sentence in a way that is true for you:

 

I am a school principal, final exams are happening now, and I receive a call saying that there might be a nuclear bomb in the city.  I would....

Here's my completion:

....kick back and surf the net.  If the bomb is real and goes off, none of us will ever know.  In any other case, why panic?  Besides, I had to sit through sixteen friggin' years of exams.  This crop of school kids should share my pain.

Comments

[avram]

Are you sure? My city's big enough that a 100-kiloton nuke in Times Square would probably just break my windows here in Brooklyn. A full megaton in Times Square might do some damage to my building, but I doubt it would kill me outright, and might not even injure me. A lesser bomb, like the 10- to 20-kiloton nukes Iran is said to be developing, would do even less -- figure it would wreck most buildings in a half- to one-mile or so radius.

Here's a simulation tool you can play with.

[perldiver.livejournal.com]

Drat, I knew I shouldn't have written the deadpan humor in black-on-white and the terminal smiley in white-on-white. :>