I'd been hiking in the woods and thought a bird was flying down... and then I saw that the object fluttering down looked like a notebook.
When I walked over and picked it up, I laughed. I'd heard, from my youngest daughter, of an Anime series by the name of "DEATHNOTE", and, oddly enough, now found myself holding a small notebook with the title of "DOOFNOTE" stylishly printed on the front cover, and, inscribed on the back cover, were the words "DON'T PANIC" in large, friendly letters.
The funniest thing about this notebook was its basic resemblance to the Deathnote mythos. Like the DeathNote, it required you to write someone's true name while thinking of what they looked like, but, instead of them dying of a heart attack-- or some other cause you can write in-- it made the victim stupid. Unlike the DeathNote, though, there were two columns, where the name you wrote into that column would receive the IQ points shaved off the first to give the victim a 70 IQ.
I laughed again, thinking it an entertaining prank, before I slipped it into the flap of my backpack and continued on my way out of the park.
Once I got home I couldn't resist the idea of trying it out, but, of all of the managers up there in the food-chain at work who I would be tempted to try this out on, I couldn't think of any that were likely to have an IQ over 70 now which would be needed to make the test verifiable.
The next pair of names that came to mind were George Bush and Dick Cheney, but, again, I suspected that someone had beat me to them.
Look around you. You have seen many stupid presidential candidates, right? That is my doing. Unfortunately, the people I chose to receive the gift of extra IQ points didn't gain much.
Now, though, I have been wondering whether I have made a horrible mistake.
Think of it for a moment and you'll understand.
One of those morons was going to be the next President of the United States.
And it is all my fault.
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