I was idly wondering about this today, writing messages on bombs is a time-honoured tradition:
Flash-forward to the present (and well…fifty odd years…) and we have thermonuclear warheads/re-entry vehicles:
Given the chance and assuming its going to be used in anger*, what would you write on one?
*ie no pacifist messages
Bit of a morbid subject I know…
“You’re about to have a real bad microsecond.”
No pacifist messege? Well, there goes “Give Peace A Chance”. How about “Hot Potato”?
That’s what Super Mutants sometimes say in Fallout 4 when they lob a hand grenade.
One shake, two shakes, three shakes…
Stranger
“Where’s the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering ka… oh wait, HERE IT IS!!!”
Good morning sunshine?
If You Can Read This You’re Too Close
“I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.”
“We apologize for the inconvenience.”
“Th-th-th-that’s all, folks!”
This is not a bowl of petunias.
This hurts me as much as it hurts you.
“Today is the last day of the rest of your life.”
“Bye Bye Mom
I’m off the drop the bomb
So don’t wait up for me.”
Got Milk?
No Return Address
“Hope you didn’t have any plans for today…”
“Remember that episode of the Twilight Zone?”
“Gluten Free”
Oh we will all fry together when we fry.
We’ll be french fried potatoes by and by.
There will be no more misery
When the world is our rotisserie,
Yes, we will all fry together when we fry.
And we will all go together when we go.
Ev’ry hottenhot and ev’ry eskimo.
When the air becomes uranious,
And we will all go simultaneous.
Yes we all will go together when we go.
– Tom Lehrer
A sketch of a phallus has done quite well for millennia, I don’t see how this should be any different.
