Abraham Lincoln once said "I must run the machine as I find it."
Let's play around with that a bit...
Abraham stared at the machine, letting his eyes wander across the contours, wires, gears, and pistons."What the hell is this thing?" he said.
"We're not sure," said the best of his advisors. "But we think it has something to do with chickens."
Abe shrugged and stuffed a chicken in one end.
Lights flashed. Smoke belched. Gears ground.
A bell rang.
"It's done," said the advisor.
An egg rolled down a chute.
"The possibilities are endless," said the advisor, smiling.
Seventy-three eggs later, Lincoln fired the advisor and made a very large omelet for the troops on the West Lawn.
I've got a few more of these written up. I swore that I'd go for 100, but somehow I stopped at 25. If I hit the wall, I hit the wall and we go with The End Of The Wacky Adventures Of Abraham Lincon.
I can always number it abe100.mp3 and then backfill. Abe left a lot of good material, you know.