Would you like anything else with your oxygen canister and chicken pizza?

This was a great article and a topic of discussion on the drive time show I present on local radio: http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Pizza_restaurant_to_open_on_Moon (article courtesy of Orange News and the Daily Telegraph). Weird news and odd tidbits I can get my grubby mitts on usually slot themselves firmly into my show, otherwise I'd be blabbering in a stream-of-consciousness sort of way which would make listeners switch off and to listen to the sound of lawnmowers as that would probably make more sense.

So, after broadcasting the news on radio and leaving the station, I sent an email to the PR department at Dominos pizza with the following:


To whom it may concern,
 
As a fan of your glorious pizzeria, it concerned me that you may be opening a store on the moon:http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Pizza_restaurant_to_open_on_Moon?pg=2#newscomments

With the current economic climate, it might be a bad move to build this store on the moon due to lack of customers and no financial return. That no oxygen thing might be a problem too. Plus, I'm no mathmatician but £13.4billion sounds like a lot of money. I could buy lots of pizzas with that.... oh, and solve a big chunk of an economic crisis.



However, if this is true, do you do home deliveries? I'm craving a nice margherita pizza. And as I am currently looking for employment, is there a job application I can fill out?


Thank you for your time.




Yours faithfully,


Mohammed Adnan


Thinking that I wouldn't get a reply, I still refreshed the page, hoping that I'd get a response of some sort to answer some of the, quite frankly, pertinent questions regarding a home delivery from the moon and if I could work in outer space as a pizza-selling assistant.


And I did. And kudos to Dominos, they humoured me and replied with the following:

Hi Mohammed

Thank you for your email.

We’re over the moon you liked the idea but I’m afraid we can’t take credit for this story as it came from Domino’s Pizza in Japan.

Please could you tell us if you are based in the UK?

Kind Regards

Tanya

What a great reply. Great pizza and great staff. And I think this news story has sparked my next story because to eat on the Moon is perhaps a future pursuit, should we run out of space to build more restaurant here on this green and blue planet. I understand that George Orwell wrote '1984' in 1948. Whether that number came from him swapping the latter 2 digits and setting his heart on that, I have no idea. However, if I did it in this year, 2011, it'd be pointless, because my depiction of the crumbling future under the scope of an oligarchical dictatorship would be of me writing this blog. Instead, I'm going to add 36 years, just like Orwell did to portray the society under the control of 'Big Brother'. I could be a sort of Winston Smith character who rebels. So my next post is storytelling? Great.