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"Button, Button" is the second segment of the twentieth episode from the first season (1985–86) of the television series The Twilight Zone. The episode is based on the short story of the same name by Richard Matheson; the same short story forms the basis of the 2009 film The Box. The original idea is taken from passage 1.6.2 of Genius of Christianity (1802) by François-René de Chateaubriand, in which the authors asks the reader what he would do if he could get rich by killing a mandarin in China solely by force of will.
Arthur and Norma Lewis are slowly descending into abject poverty. One day, they receive a mysterious locked box with a button on it and a note that says Mr. Steward will come visit. Then, just as the note says, a smartly dressed stranger who introduces himself as Steward comes to their door when Arthur is out. He gives Norma the key to the box and explains that, if they press the button, two things will happen: they will receive $200,000 and someone "whom [they] don't know" will die.
"Button, Button" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in a January 1953 issue of Startling Stories, and was reprinted in the 1975 collection Buy Jupiter and Other Stories. It is one of several stories by Asimov in which he deliberately set out to be funny.
Otto Schlemmelmayer, an eccentric professor, develops a method of linking brain power to creating physical effects. When his effect is modified to create weapons of war, he turns in disgust to the real love of his life - creating a flute that can be played by mental power alone.
To raise the capital required for this project, he colludes with his nephew Harry Smith — a less-than-ethical lawyer and the story's narrator — to use another new invention of his that can reach back into time and retrieve objects (a theme also appearing in The Ugly Little Boy and A Statue for Father).
They plan to retrieve a signature of one of the signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence, Button Gwinnett, which is rare and therefore potentially valuable. The signature is successfully recovered. The experiment works and they present a piece of genuine parchment with a genuine signature to the government for authentication. The scheme fails when the government investigators decide that the parchment is too new to be genuine; because it skipped forward hundreds of years in time, the parchment scrap appears only a year or two old.
Yks päivä olin surullinen ja rahaton
Olin saanut potkut töistä kun tää lama on
Mä päätä raavin, mistä käärin edes yhden setelin
En kyennyt ku itkemään mutta siitä keksinkin
Mä pullotan mun kyyneleet ja myyn ne Saharaan
Missä niitä tarvitsee tuo kuiva karu maa
Mun ideasta kuuli itse presidenttikin
Tuumi tässä ratkaisu ois vientiongelmiin
Tuotanto halpaa ois, on Suomi varsin masentunut maa
Ja Afrikan sijaan Euroopasta isommat rahat saa
Siis pullotetaan kyyneleet myydään ne Baden-Badeniin
Missä Suomen murheet pumpataan suihkulähteisiin
Joo, pullotetaan kyyneleet junalla Baden-Badeniin
Missä niissä kylpee turisti ja toinenkin
Niin kansa itki ja talous nousi pian jaloilleen
Ja ilo alkoi muttei riitä pelkät onnenkyyneleet
Hallitus mietti pitkään miten tääkin kriisi ratkaistaan
Kunnes joku muisti miten alkoholivero poistetaan
Ja taas pullotetaan kyyneleet myydään ne Baden-Badeniin
Missä Suomen murheet pumpataan suihkulähteisiin
Joo, pullotetaan kyyneleet junalla Baden-Badeniin
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