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It is the year 2136. The preserved brain of Donny Osmond struts along in it's robotic exo-skeletal frame, listening to some music on the built-in Mp3 player. The track currently playing is Boyzone's "Love Me for A Reason". "Yip", says the brain to itself, "I think we've got a winner.". The metallic body heads for a set of disused garages. Opening up one of the garages and turning on the light reveals an object in the corner, covered with an old plastic sheet. Donny whips off the sheet to reveal a time machine - the only one in existence.
The frame walks towards the machine and switches it on. A low humming is heard and the lights dim, as if the power is being sapped by the device. A plug from the machine is inserted into a socket on the robot and a set of lights begins to flash. Donny enters the year 1970 into the machine, and after a short, violent burst of gamma rays, the device and Donny are transported back in time.
There Donny appears in a newly built set of garages - still preserved by his metal frame - and he waits. Waits for years, in fact, until the time is right. One day he emerges from his hiding place. He walks behind gardens, carefully avoiding anyone that might think his metallic skeleton unusual. Soon he arrives at a house. And through the window he can see - Dun dun duuuuun - his younger self from the seventies! Climbing through the window, the young Donny is initially scared, but the brain/robot combo explains itself by quoting facts and memories from the young Donny's life that only he would know.
The future-Donny hands young Donny an old vinyl record. "Keep this hidden and keep me a secret.", he says, "It is the key to our future.". The record is an original copy of The Osmond's "Love Me For A Reason, which goes on to become a world-wide best seller, eventually being covered by Boyzone in the nineties.
And the dilemma?
Who gets the royalties?
Just an idea I had last night, in story form with robots. Scruffily written I know, but it's the only way I could trhink of getting it across.
The frame walks towards the machine and switches it on. A low humming is heard and the lights dim, as if the power is being sapped by the device. A plug from the machine is inserted into a socket on the robot and a set of lights begins to flash. Donny enters the year 1970 into the machine, and after a short, violent burst of gamma rays, the device and Donny are transported back in time.
There Donny appears in a newly built set of garages - still preserved by his metal frame - and he waits. Waits for years, in fact, until the time is right. One day he emerges from his hiding place. He walks behind gardens, carefully avoiding anyone that might think his metallic skeleton unusual. Soon he arrives at a house. And through the window he can see - Dun dun duuuuun - his younger self from the seventies! Climbing through the window, the young Donny is initially scared, but the brain/robot combo explains itself by quoting facts and memories from the young Donny's life that only he would know.
The future-Donny hands young Donny an old vinyl record. "Keep this hidden and keep me a secret.", he says, "It is the key to our future.". The record is an original copy of The Osmond's "Love Me For A Reason, which goes on to become a world-wide best seller, eventually being covered by Boyzone in the nineties.
And the dilemma?
Who gets the royalties?
Just an idea I had last night, in story form with robots. Scruffily written I know, but it's the only way I could trhink of getting it across.
Well if my current experience with MP3 players is anything to go by robotic Donny's brain would freeze requiring a lock up because of a messed up driver. Meaning that he would never hear it. And hence it would never exist.
FantasyMeister wrote:
"Michael Jackson would get the royalties."
*nods*
"Michael Jackson would get the royalties."
*nods*
I mulled over it too but I just can't get around the idea of anyone wanting to preserve Donny Osmond's brain. He'd have to have one in the first place, surely?
Michael Jackson would get the royalties.
Michael Jackson would get the royalties.
*mulls over*
I maybe mulling this over for some time, as the image of a metallic Donny Osmond has given me the willies.
I maybe mulling this over for some time, as the image of a metallic Donny Osmond has given me the willies.
It's almost like the tension paper storyline from Red Dwarf. Craig Charles gets the royalties.
monkey_man wrote:
> Who gets the royalties?
Whoever sang the song?
> Who gets the royalties?
Whoever sang the song?
It is the year 2136. The preserved brain of Donny Osmond struts along in it's robotic exo-skeletal frame, listening to some music on the built-in Mp3 player. The track currently playing is Boyzone's "Love Me for A Reason". "Yip", says the brain to itself, "I think we've got a winner.". The metallic body heads for a set of disused garages. Opening up one of the garages and turning on the light reveals an object in the corner, covered with an old plastic sheet. Donny whips off the sheet to reveal a time machine - the only one in existence.
The frame walks towards the machine and switches it on. A low humming is heard and the lights dim, as if the power is being sapped by the device. A plug from the machine is inserted into a socket on the robot and a set of lights begins to flash. Donny enters the year 1970 into the machine, and after a short, violent burst of gamma rays, the device and Donny are transported back in time.
There Donny appears in a newly built set of garages - still preserved by his metal frame - and he waits. Waits for years, in fact, until the time is right. One day he emerges from his hiding place. He walks behind gardens, carefully avoiding anyone that might think his metallic skeleton unusual. Soon he arrives at a house. And through the window he can see - Dun dun duuuuun - his younger self from the seventies! Climbing through the window, the young Donny is initially scared, but the brain/robot combo explains itself by quoting facts and memories from the young Donny's life that only he would know.
The future-Donny hands young Donny an old vinyl record. "Keep this hidden and keep me a secret.", he says, "It is the key to our future.". The record is an original copy of The Osmond's "Love Me For A Reason, which goes on to become a world-wide best seller, eventually being covered by Boyzone in the nineties.
And the dilemma?
Who gets the royalties?
Just an idea I had last night, in story form with robots. Scruffily written I know, but it's the only way I could trhink of getting it across.
The frame walks towards the machine and switches it on. A low humming is heard and the lights dim, as if the power is being sapped by the device. A plug from the machine is inserted into a socket on the robot and a set of lights begins to flash. Donny enters the year 1970 into the machine, and after a short, violent burst of gamma rays, the device and Donny are transported back in time.
There Donny appears in a newly built set of garages - still preserved by his metal frame - and he waits. Waits for years, in fact, until the time is right. One day he emerges from his hiding place. He walks behind gardens, carefully avoiding anyone that might think his metallic skeleton unusual. Soon he arrives at a house. And through the window he can see - Dun dun duuuuun - his younger self from the seventies! Climbing through the window, the young Donny is initially scared, but the brain/robot combo explains itself by quoting facts and memories from the young Donny's life that only he would know.
The future-Donny hands young Donny an old vinyl record. "Keep this hidden and keep me a secret.", he says, "It is the key to our future.". The record is an original copy of The Osmond's "Love Me For A Reason, which goes on to become a world-wide best seller, eventually being covered by Boyzone in the nineties.
And the dilemma?
Who gets the royalties?
Just an idea I had last night, in story form with robots. Scruffily written I know, but it's the only way I could trhink of getting it across.