h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I hate to sound to 'in-joke', but I can't believe there was no mention made of the most infuriating vending machine in the known universe - perhaps in all space-time - The Nutri-Matic Drink Dispenser!

Or, at least you should have included a warning about the number of people who, each year, lost digits, arms, and lives to vending machines. Often they are apparently heavy enough to kill a person by falling on them.

Thanks for the very excellent and worthwhile entry though! Very helpful, and with a nice dose of humour!

My only real critique would probably have had to do with the mixing of metaphors between roulette and cards. No worries.

The revolution already came and went. I'm sorry you missed it, but there's no longer any Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, and thus no longer any Nutri-Matic Drink Dispenser. I saw to that personally.....

You know, I completely forgot about that one.

It would have been a good example...

sprout

and, to sprout:

Just as well, it was fictional after all.