An essay question: If you were the character Letter-man from the US children's show Electric Company, what letter would you have on your chest and what word would you use it to change?

The character Letter-man had the ability to rip a letter off of his chest and turn one word to another, thereby turning the actual thing into the new word. The question is if you had this power to use once to what use would you put it?

Some extremely poor examples include: An "f" to change taxes into faxes aleviating our responsibility to pay them. A "w" to change fire into wire to save a forest.

User	Comment
Handle	posted 18-Apr-1999 12:06am First off I would like an "L" so that I could have alleviating spelled correctly in the introduction.
bill	posted 18-Apr-1999 6:13am I'd take an "m" and change the word hate to mate. There by changing the people who hate each other into partners.
lara	posted 18-Apr-1999 9:27am Right about now, I'd take the "w" to change fire into wire. It's kinda smoky here.
pandora	posted 18-Apr-1999 1:42pm I would change mono-which I was just in the hospital for two nights for :( -to Bono, cause he's a real cutie.
mandy	posted 18-Apr-1999 5:07pm I'd be lettergurl!
gilly	posted 18-Apr-1999 5:34pm I'd turn debt into deft, and suddenly be extremely handy.
Jody	posted 19-Apr-1999 10:27am I'd have an "s" so there would always be enough of everything for everybody! "faster than a rolling O! stronger than silent E! able to leap capital T in a single bound! it's a word....it's a plan...it's Letterman!" (Yes, Joan Rivers did the voiceover for that cartoon!)
anonymous	posted 19-Apr-1999 2:58pm Replace the b in bad to s, thereby turning this survey from bad to just sad.
jonathan	posted 20-Apr-1999 10:03am I'd take a "U" and use it to turn "don't" into "donut", thereby causing many sentences to turn into utter gibberish and freeing us all up to do other things with our time.
madamex	posted 20-Apr-1999 1:39pm I would use my "B" to change races into braces. We would then no longer have racism, and all men would have their trousers held up with braces, which I find very sexy. Big win all around.
steve	posted 20-Apr-1999 5:16pm Madamex: You're in America now; you'd just make people's teeth hurt.
madamex	posted 20-Apr-1999 11:00pm steve: I suppose braces could make your teeth hurt if they held your trousers up too high.
fooyun	posted 21-Apr-1999 2:59pm I would be "B" and change the word Flowbee into Blowbee so it will shoot hair in reverse on TV and destroy all infomercials as we know it.
bill	posted 21-Apr-1999 4:15pm I can think of another use for a Blowbee.
fooyun	posted 22-Apr-1999 12:29pm This survey isn't supposed to be offensive! :P
eris	posted 22-Apr-1999 4:53pm How about either "d" or "m" - to turn "hate" into either a "date" or a "mate"?
dpolicar	posted 23-Apr-1999 5:07pm Ah, so many options. At the moment, a "d" to change "fear" into "dear".
dpolicar	posted 23-Apr-1999 5:10pm eris, bill - I considered that one, too, but I'm not sure the subsequent mass mating is something I'd want to feel responsible for...
bill	posted 24-Apr-1999 6:39am I think it would work out great, we could all be like the Bonobo's!
Gamera	posted 26-Apr-1999 2:21am Maybe I could have the letter "E." Then if I found someone who was PACEing, I could give them some PEACE.
LindaH	posted 26-Jul-2008 11:28pm an M. Any time I see two people hating on each other, I can slap and M over that H and be totally amused at the results.

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