Originally published at: Get your own Jewish Space Laser control panel | Boing Boing
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Ooh. Comes with a real, heavy duty toggle switch.
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This is a writing prompt for Mel Brooks made manifest.
I can see the script now:
Title card- Spaceballs II:
TheSearchQuest for More Money
INT. Earth’s President’s Office
Open on a room that looks like the Oval Office, over two minutes a bank of various buttons goes by labeled “Soda”, “Nuke”, and “Jewish Space Laser” Fingers drum on a lone hand…
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Yeah, instead of a bust of some dude, it’s a bobble head Rabbi. I’m down with that. Shabbat Shalom!
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YEAH BABY! NOW YER TALKING! 
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This article immediately reminded me of the “Jews in Space” scene at the end of “Mel Brooks’ History of the World Part I”.
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That looks like a very satisfying toggle to actuate.
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I know, it’s SAF!
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Many years ago, when I was doing Street Cred reviews for Wired, a company sent me a weapons control panel that mounted on the dash of your car. It had toggles and jewel buttons for photon torpedoes, phasers, forward and aft cannons (IIRC). They lit up and had great sound effects. It was WAY more satisfying than it should have been to actually use in a car when someone in front or behind was annoying you.
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Roger That!
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Doesn’t work on Friday nights and Saturday mornings.
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And its just in time for Passover. Look, a new plague on the Pharoah.
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Concord also offers customizable Apollo Command Module control panels. I want to fit one into my boat’s nav console to actuate (on/off) the running lights, blower motor and bilge pump and label the panel “Shark” with the switches labeled “Tiger”, “Hammerhead” and “White” in the off position and “chum” in the on position.
could be fun.
“set course 335 NNW and chum hammerhead, ready the white chum”
“aye, Cap’n”
“sun’s settin’ Cap’n, shall I chum the tiger?”
“steady! they’ll not see us coming…”
yeah. could be fun.
now, where to mount the Jewish Space Laser?
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No, it’s cool. They have a shabbos goy to take care of it, if they chose to, of course.
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Oh man if only I had heard of the chemtrails switch when I knew a paranoid person!
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Such a bizarre workaround. Similar to Amish owning cars, but having “English” to drive them…
I just don’t get it. If I compel someone (though payment) to do something forbidden, surely I’m guilty as well?
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But it isn’t forbidden for gentiles. Judaism is one of those religions that doesn’t hold its rules bind everybody. If I understand correctly, gentiles are considered bound only by the Noahide Laws, which don’t say anything about observing the Sabbath (or keeping kosher, etc.):
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