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What to do about Lenin's body? As Scott Scheule points out,
But Bryan Caplan suggests that they auction it off on eBay. Well, that's a great idea - and I hope that GoldenPalace.com, winning bidder for the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese, wins the auction. Why, think of the possibilities: they could open a whole Lenin-themed casino, complete with the opportunity to pull on the corpse's hinged arm for a chance to win $1 million whenever it comes up on 1, 2!, ...yes, 3! hammer and sickles! Think of the garish red-and-gold carpeting, the restaurants that only serve food to every fourth customer (unless you know to "bribe" the busboys, not pay the waitresses). The VIP Club is called - what else? - the Politburo. Leave your kids in The Gulag. You save a fortune on the hotel construction costs because, obviously, there are no phones, carpets, or hot water, and you only have one 30W lightbulb per room. The women's changing room at the DDR pool features heavy duty electric razors to remove that unwanted and unsightly body hair.
You ought to be able to power the place entirely off of generators driven by the spinning corpse.
There's been a bit of hoopla lately about Lenin's body, which nowadays tends to sprout mushrooms and in earlier, more spry times, liked to kill people.If there were any justice in the world, they would take it out to a shallow grave, throw a little kerosene on it, let it burn for a few minutes, then cover it with dirt and leave it unmarked, the same way that millions met their fate under his rule. Well, except that he didn't starve to death (the way he dealt with peasants) or get a bullet in the neck (the Cheka's favorite method).
But Bryan Caplan suggests that they auction it off on eBay. Well, that's a great idea - and I hope that GoldenPalace.com, winning bidder for the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese, wins the auction. Why, think of the possibilities: they could open a whole Lenin-themed casino, complete with the opportunity to pull on the corpse's hinged arm for a chance to win $1 million whenever it comes up on 1, 2!, ...yes, 3! hammer and sickles! Think of the garish red-and-gold carpeting, the restaurants that only serve food to every fourth customer (unless you know to "bribe" the busboys, not pay the waitresses). The VIP Club is called - what else? - the Politburo. Leave your kids in The Gulag. You save a fortune on the hotel construction costs because, obviously, there are no phones, carpets, or hot water, and you only have one 30W lightbulb per room. The women's changing room at the DDR pool features heavy duty electric razors to remove that unwanted and unsightly body hair.
You ought to be able to power the place entirely off of generators driven by the spinning corpse.
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