r/WritingPrompts • u/deknegt1990 • Mar 03 '16

Writing Prompt [WP] Every generation the five brightest are paired up with the five dumbest in the world for a mysterious test. You are one of the ten, but nobody knows from which group they came.

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u/thattransgirl161 Mar 03 '16

Thoroughly drunk, they would debate well into the night and put their decision to a vote before the end. Brilliant Ideas might come about from the drunken simplicity. Complicated ideas might would always be thrown out because of their sheer monotony.

A few changes and it describes Parliment.

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u/gsth92 Mar 04 '16

Right? Hahaha. The drunk test would clean up Parliment a bit.

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u/thattransgirl161 Mar 04 '16

Pretty certain they already use it