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Do Politicians Really Want a World Without Doors?
Let’s Sing “Knock-knock-knockin’ on heaven’s window”?
Some people today have a problem with doors. ERR politicians. The fewer the better in their eyes. What if the world didn’t have doors at all? What would that look like?
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, once famously remarked, “When one door closes, another opens. Well, what if there wasn’t a door to close or open? Let’s pretend.
Can’t tell someone “You make a better door than a window.” Change it to make a better wall than a window. No one will be “at death’s door”. How about at death’s windowsill? Where do we check our egos at, without doors?
Would a knock-knock joke take on a whole other meaning? How about other jokes and puns about doors that wouldn’t exist? Or they would have to be reworded?
TAP TAP [sound knocking on a window]
Who’s there?
Lion.
Lion who?
Lion on your windowsill, open up!
Does that sound right? So, much for knock-knock jokes.
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