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Are we living in the future yet?
aonemantidalwave Posted Jul 2, 2002
Fat Kelli...You rule!
Trivial is the way to be.
I love you.
it's all too much says hi!
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It's all too much..... Posted Jul 2, 2002
Anybody made me a flying car yet?.......
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pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Posted Jul 2, 2002
last years big mystery called IT aka Ginger
http://www.segway.com/
could be future?
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Xanatic Posted Jul 2, 2002
But technology isn't what I look forward to in the future anyway. It's more the freedom and well being and such I want. No more diseases, no more work, no more war. Those kind of things.
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pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Posted Jul 2, 2002
ok here is comes
the goodwell plug of the day
get inspired read meme webguide A573040
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 2, 2002
Pheloxi, interesting you should quote a song that weas so laden with irony.
As I remember the shades in question were needed to guard against the fireball of a nuclear explosion, certainly in the video.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 2, 2002
And just to disprove the theory that *anything* has crawled up my arse and died, here are some lyrics from one of my favorite bands. They are totally non-ironic, and sometimes I even agree with them.
'Convenience and pleasure
All blended together
And culture, and madness
You think you've seen it all
You've seen it all except the future'
Sparks, The Future.
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Woodpigeon Posted Jul 2, 2002
I'm know I'm showing my age here, but did anyone read the 2000AD comic during the early eighties?
We should have been invaded by the Volgs by now...
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aonemantidalwave Posted Jul 2, 2002
Grud on a greenie!
Ah yes, 2000AD- such sweet memories.
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Kate Schechter (Back on the right side of the pond) Posted Jul 2, 2002
*wanders by, reaches in her pocket and pulls out two cents*
*tosses it into the forum*
I've had this discussion before - esp. about the silver jumpsuits Where ARE all those cool things that they predicted?
My theory is, while we might not have readily-accessible flying cars, the technology we DO have would definitely boggle the minds of those who were fantasizing about where we would be today. Can you imagine showing someone from the 50s a CORDED phone the size of a cellphone? Much less getting them to believe that it was operating wirelessly?
It's all a matter of perspective. Doesn't seem that cool to us, because we're in the middle of it. Eh, no big deal, we think. How can it be better and faster (and smaller), we ask. Meanwhile, zap in some clueless soul from the fifties (meaning one who HASN'T evolved along with the rest of the world), and he'll think he's in the 30th century.
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aonemantidalwave Posted Jul 2, 2002
Kate- you gave us the one and only correct viewpoint- pint of absinthe for you! You kick a**
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It's all too much..... Posted Jul 2, 2002
What about those awful ties that play music.
50's guy must be wondering why, not how!
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aonemantidalwave Posted Jul 2, 2002
Technology HAS got a lot to answer for...Mobile Ringtones for example.
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Kate Schechter (Back on the right side of the pond) Posted Jul 2, 2002
*looks at her absinthe a bit dubiously*
*quickly pours it into the plant*
Gonna miss that plant
Oh and mobile ringtones. Oy.
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aonemantidalwave Posted Jul 2, 2002
Kate...I'm slightly insulted by your disregard for my Absinthe...ah well, each to their own...and mobile ringtones come from the big red scaly anus of the prince of darkness.
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Kate Schechter (Back on the right side of the pond) Posted Jul 2, 2002
*Hastily pours herself another cup of absinthe, closes her eyes, hopes for the best and -*
"We now interrupt this broadcast for a test of the Emergency Broadcasting System... This is only a test..."
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- 43: pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | (Jul 2, 2002)
- 44: Xanatic (Jul 2, 2002)
- 45: pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | (Jul 2, 2002)
- 46: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Jul 2, 2002)
- 47: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Jul 2, 2002)
- 48: Woodpigeon (Jul 2, 2002)
- 49: aonemantidalwave (Jul 2, 2002)
- 50: Kate Schechter (Back on the right side of the pond) (Jul 2, 2002)
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