In this modern day and age, it seems like the highest courts in the land could find something a bit more sophisticated than banging a wooden hammer on their desk.

1/7/2011 3:28:29 PM

what, you mean like a buzzer?

1/7/2011 3:29:24 PM

Certainly there's some sort of iphone app.

1/7/2011 3:29:55 PM

how about a bigger gavel?

1/7/2011 3:30:25 PM

1/7/2011 3:31:41 PM

^^ That's what inspired this.

They were making a big deal about handing over the gavel, and all I could think about was the greatest superpower in the world and the wooden hammer that they make laws with.

1/7/2011 3:31:45 PM

There's actually a strong movement amongst younger conservatives these days to install trap doors in the court room. Upon the final decision in the trial, the judge would press a button opening the trap beneath the loser's chair.... dropping them below into a pit full of rusty syringes, homosexuals, and laptops with internet connectivity issues.

1/7/2011 3:32:28 PM

I mean it's basically a warhammer.

1/7/2011 3:32:48 PM

Do they take that home with them at the end of the day? I imagine that it would be great for smashing walnuts, or even smashing strawberries and other small fruit Gallagher-style.

1/7/2011 3:35:34 PM