"The explosion shall be of extraordinary magnitude"

[avram]

The funniest thing about this afternoon’s Mooninite-induced panic is that the billboards don’t actually look like bombs. Real bombs are hidden away inside innocuous-looking containers. The blinky lights and LEDs counting down to zero are artifacts of Hollywood dramas, a modern-day symbol of “bomb”, the cinematic equivalent of the shiny black sphere with a fuse sticking out that you see in cartoons.

The city of Boston was shut down today not because of devices that looked like bombs, but because of devices that looked like Hollywood fake representations of bombs.

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[dirkcjelli.livejournal.com]

the cinematic equivalent of the shiny black sphere with a fuse sticking out that you see in cartoons.

If you are ever magically transported back to the 19th century, try to remember that those shiny cast iron spheres with the hissing fuses are actual bombs thrown by actual anarchists.

I agree with your general sentiment, however.

"Oh my goodness, -anything- could be a bomb... that mailbox could be a bomb... that suburu could be a bomb... we're doomed!"

(Seriously, people need to chill. Carry terrorist insurance and bomb the piss out of the offending group after the fact. Take -reasonable- precautions, and a valium.)