Press-Ganged: Difference between revisions

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In fiction, whenever anyone has a position they need filled, rather than putting out a want ad or interviewing potential candidates, they'll simply grab the first person they see and ''force'' them to help.

 

* In ''[[Empire From the Ashes]]'', Dahak does this to get a new captain.

* In ''[[The Scar]]'', many of the inhabitants of the floating nation Armada were press ganged.

* Implied in ''[[Who Cut the Cheese?]]'' by Mason Brown, where Cover's characterization of the maze as a "hellish netherworld with no fixed address" implies a contrast to a less hellish outside.

 

== [[Music]] ==

* In the [[Stan Freberg]] recording "The Old Payola Roll Blues," Clyde Ankle is on his way to high school when he is grabbed off the street by a record company which sees in his "pretty face and a pompadour" the makings of a teenage [[Idol Singer]]. Despite that (actually, ''because'') he can't sing, they get him to record the would-be hit single "High School, Oo-Oo" by threatening him with a pointed stick.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

 

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