Orcs and packing tape

[pegkerr]

I had a box delivered to my desk for one of my attorneys this morning. Whoever packed it was a psychopath obsessed with packing tape. I grabbed my trusty Sting letter opener and started to attack the box. "Sting can handle it," I assured Eric, who had brought the box (he's a LOTR fan, too). "It can handle orcs, it can handle packing tape."

It took quite a few moments, despite Sting's best efforts.

"The thing is," I observed thoughtfully, as I slit the last bit of tape and removed the box top, "if Orcs had strapping tape, they'd probably be undefeatable."

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[handworn.livejournal.com]

I might have been more tempted to call it "a shard of Narsil," myself.