"Bubblegum and Ass-kicking"

"I've come here to chew bubblegum & kick ass...

and I'm all out of bubblegum!"

Now (assuming some here recognize that sentiment), kicking ass out there in the physical spaces is a very serious matter indeed, with a fairly wide range of possible outcomes (to cause pain, suffering, dismemberment, termination, to name just a few), but there is one more worth getting into right here, and right now.

In fact, putting the sentiment a little differently: "I've come here to chew the fat & blow your mind... and I'm all out of fat!" (To actively motivate people to do something.) Speaking in metaphors, similes, symbols, analogies and synecdoches, while they may be considered by some as "hard to follow along" (i.e., fat), they can also make for more "enjoyable reading" in others, so it is quite difficult to be accepted/heard/understood by both groups at once. Someone is always feeling left OUT of the conversation, and they soon quit participating. Others find it neurally stimulating and so eat it up with relish. The rest are unknown to me in any case.

There is a reason for this, including all the fatty confusion and ass kicking, and you already know what it is. So I could, if I wanted to, just end this right now, so as to let you all work out the details for yourselves - in a "think piece" of your own - thereby discovering the PUNCHLINE for yourself, thus getting the JOKE, and being able to BLOW YOUR OWN MIND!

You know you want to!

For those who stayed a little while longer, preferring to be TOLD something they can argue with now or later (yeah, that's fun too, though not very useful in the long run), being ABLE to blow your own mind is a skill/talent few on this planet can perform for themselves, let alone such that someone else's mind is blown too.

"But why would I even WANT TO?" ask some.

"Oh, I can do that anytime I want!" say others.

Those responses are suitable for another one of your "think pieces", assuming you actually do it. So, when a few, if any, actually do attempt to activate their own Higher Ends of the Nervous System, wherein conscious thought operates, purposefully, intentionally (like "blowing one's own mind!") - a place few have actually even visited (i.e., taken a Tour around the whole Territory to survey the Terrain) - they might compose some written reply to this particular "setup", just to convince themselves...

"I did it!"
Note: properly "blown", one is a little,
if not a lot more AWAKE than before!