{"id":166,"date":"2005-06-20T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=166"},"modified":"2010-01-03T17:27:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T17:27:17","slug":"present-but-not-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/06\/present-but-not-voting.html","title":{"rendered":"Present, but Not Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">Jeremy Bentham may have intended <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/06\/who-are-people-in-your-neighbourhood.html\">his Auto-Icon<\/a> to work as a sort of object for contemplation on weighty matters of life and death. If so, it&#8217;s sort of worked because I&#8217;ve been thinking about it some more, but the absurdity of the contraption is too distratcing to produce any thoughts deserving of treatment better than posting them on a blog:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">He&#8217;s been dead for 150 years and looks better than <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/06\/filler-by-proxy-xix-thats-stallone-on.html\">Sylvester Stallone<\/a> does now. <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">When I considered asking the guard about bulletproof glass I was looking at the casters and was wondering if he had wanted to be taken out for a stroll every now and then, and that the Auto-Icon was a 19th-century ancestor of the Popemobile.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">A wax head does not mitigate against my favourable comparison of Bentham to Stallone. <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Pranks played on his real, disembodied head are alleged to have included being used as a football in a game on the college green, and being sent as a parcel on a train to Aberdeen.*<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Why he would need bulletproof glass for protection when taken for a constitutional remains lost on me, given that he&#8217;s already dead, but I guess the last pope established a precedent.**<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">There are certain types on campus who get way too wrapped up in college life and perpetuate rumors that the Auto-Icon is wheeled in to attend council meetings, and is granted a casting vote in favour.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">It&#8217;s way too late to make jokes about the last pope, even though they&#8217;re still selling that old &#8220;I like the Pope the Pope smokes dope&#8221; t-shirt at street markets.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">If someone had taken a pot-shot at him and later asked for forgiveness, unlike the Pope, Bentham would probably have told the gunman he was using the wrong type of gun and recommended a form of assassination that was much more efficient but logistically impractical.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">The Auto-Icon probably would have done his reputation for posterity more harm than good, had it not been ruined anyway by that whole panopticon thing.***<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">You can mispronounce his name as &#8220;bent ham&#8221;.* <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">* Bentham, not Stallone. <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">** Bentham, not Benedict XVI.  Nor Stallone. <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">*** Bentham, not Stallone.  Unless you count <em>Lock Up<\/em>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Bentham may have intended his Auto-Icon to work as a sort of object for contemplation on weighty matters of life and death. 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