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Daily Telegraph staffers discuss a story about aircraft being menaced by powerful lasers:

Staffer #1: Are we talking about keychain lasers? The kind you use as a pointer?

Staffer #2: Oh, no. They’re too weak. Those things couldn’t blind a ... a ...

Staffer #2 realises now he must identify something that is easy to blind. We’ve all talked ourselves into these awkward corners, at some time or other; read on as our man finds a brilliantly puzzling way out:

Staffer #2: ... they couldn’t blind a mule.

Posted by Tim B. on 03/16/2007 at 01:27 PM

  1. Sounds like Dilbert’s pointy-haired boss.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 16 at 01:42 PM • permalink

  2. Bat.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2007 03 16 at 01:48 PM • permalink

  3. ...a guy who’s been locked in a basement for 10 years?

    ...a frail elderly person with cataracts?

    everything I think of just sounds horribly cruel.

    Posted by Behemoth on 2007 03 16 at 01:49 PM • permalink

  4. A Venetian?

    Posted by Maulman on 2007 03 16 at 01:49 PM • permalink

  5. ..Ray Charles?

    Posted by Behemoth on 2007 03 16 at 02:36 PM • permalink

  6. ... a cyclops? A really big giant cyclops with a huge club made from a tree stump, with a spike in it?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 03 16 at 02:52 PM • permalink

  7. Pubescent male teen.

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 16 at 03:09 PM • permalink

  8. “they couldn’t blind a mule.”

    they could if you poked the mule in the eye with it hard enough.

    Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 03 16 at 03:23 PM • permalink

  9. ...UN peacekeeper.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 16 at 03:24 PM • permalink

  10. LOL, #9   :)
    I’m dying here (or would be, if I was depending on UN peacekeepers for my safety…)

    Posted by Jim,MtnViewCA,USA on 2007 03 16 at 03:42 PM • permalink

  11. Blind cave fish?

    Posted by rbj1 on 2007 03 16 at 04:10 PM • permalink

  12. Blind cave piranha! That have really huge tail fins with spikes in them!

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 03 16 at 04:35 PM • permalink

  13. Are you sure he didn’t say, Mole?

    I know you Aussies tend to noogie the language when you speak it aloud, but I’m not sure if the Australian “mule” and the Australian “mole” sound anything alike.

    Posted by The Apologist on 2007 03 16 at 05:13 PM • permalink

  14. ... they couldn’t blind a mule.

    Especially not one flying at 15,000 feet or more.

    Posted by Mark V. on 2007 03 16 at 05:26 PM • permalink

  15. ‘They couldnt blind Helen Keller’

    Posted by Squiffy on 2007 03 16 at 05:33 PM • permalink

  16. Would that be a rented mule?

    Posted by Skeptimus on 2007 03 16 at 05:49 PM • permalink

  17. ...Mohammed El-Baradei.

    Posted by dub kitty on 2007 03 16 at 05:50 PM • permalink

  18. #4 Maulman
    Oh, no! “A Venetian”! I came up with that, too!
    Evidence that we’re nuts.

    Posted by m on 2007 03 16 at 06:00 PM • permalink

  19. ... a lefty journalist, already blind to the fact that everything he knows about socialism is wrong.

    ... Antony Loewenstein, already blind to his own failures as a human being.

    Al Gore, already blind to the damage he’s doing with his Hysterical Scare Everybody Concert Tour.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 03 16 at 06:26 PM • permalink

  20. a caveman!

    Posted by Lonetown on 2007 03 16 at 06:44 PM • permalink

  21. Sounds like a Wankley Award winner to me

    Posted by regional on 2007 03 16 at 07:04 PM • permalink

  22. He was close, the correct answer is a mole.  They couldn’t blind a mole.

    Posted by aaron_ on 2007 03 16 at 07:06 PM • permalink

  23. a Pakistani cricket umpire

    Posted by geoff on 2007 03 16 at 07:39 PM • permalink

  24. a first date in a braille school photo lab at midnight.

    Posted by geoff on 2007 03 16 at 07:53 PM • permalink

  25. Maybe it’s just my somewhat bent mind, but my first thought was…..a fly.

    You know…small….compound eye….

    Hey, it’s no worse than Tim’s effort.
    Mule!! Indeed.

    Posted by rinardman on 2007 03 16 at 08:04 PM • permalink

  26. naked mole rat?

    Posted by KK on 2007 03 16 at 08:06 PM • permalink

  27. I don’t want to blind anything.  I just want to tie the frickin’ lasers to the heads of frickin’ sharks.

    Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 03 16 at 09:06 PM • permalink

  28. As blind as a group of midget prostitutes after Ron Jeremy’s Birthday party?

    Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2007 03 16 at 09:33 PM • permalink

  29. A bush baby?Bush baby pic

    Posted by Olrence on 2007 03 16 at 09:55 PM • permalink

  30. Here’s a better pic.  Wouldn’t blind a….

    Posted by Olrence on 2007 03 16 at 11:01 PM • permalink

  31. Couldn’t blind Billy and Shep

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 03 16 at 11:20 PM • permalink

  32. A moonbat.

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 03 17 at 01:33 AM • permalink

  33. Freddy

    Posted by Bruno on 2007 03 17 at 04:29 AM • permalink

  34. Jason

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 03 17 at 06:47 AM • permalink

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