You can program your computer to sign them all and he'll do that in few minutes (or more)
I agree swiping 1400 is ridiculous but you can do without that. As you said it's just for fun
Ok, feel free to try that on Bitcoin Cash BCH. I think you may find it harder / costlier than you imagine.
There are doing that for stress test I believe, they have programs and we get huge blocks But maybe you're right and it's hard to propagate lot of small txs instead of few big ones