Tuesday, July 26, 2005

I've won a trophy!

I was invited to take part in a radio show called "Genius" staring Dave Gorman. Six of us had to pitch ideas of genius to Dave and his guest , John Fortune. There were all sort of ideas:- a glove that left handed people wore to convert their left hand into a right hand, using laughing gas at riots rather than tear gas, and even having an official "You're Dumped Day" a few days after Valentine's day. Some of the ideas, like Turbo Golf and an artificial brake pedal for cars fell by the wayside. In the end, my idea for sending old age pensioners on the first manned mission to Mars..(I wrote about it on one of my first Xanga Blog entries)...to save the cost of the return trip, was declared to be Pure Genius and I was awarded this trophy. Still, you might like to take a look at this picture to get an idea of the true quality of my genius.
One other thing. John Fortune actually wrote one of my favourite books of all time:- A Melon is for Extasy. I particularly liked Chapter 5 featuring the Germoline ointment and the tweezers.