Thursday, November 30, 2006

When IPOD ruled the world....

Ok, like, I can take a joke; ya' know what I mean? But this is getting a little ridiculous....

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

y'know, I was *really really* hoping that this was a Photoshop job -- but it ain't.

::sigh::

The fact that this sucker's on *backorder* makes me shudder. We've come a long way, my friend, from James Joyce's Leopold Bloom, who read the newspaper in the outhouse and then used the newspaper as toilet paper...

JimDesu said...

I think it clearly demonstrates that as a culture we're over-entertained to the point of impending societal collapse, or else that the gag-gift market is alive and well.

But.... Have you ever seen anything quite so... Huxley-ish?

Anonymous said...

Ditto on those comments. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that it was on backorder. As a student of business, my guess is that either there are way too many people who want this,or they were smart and didn't produce too many; thus creating a situation where the demand outweighs the supply.

Either way...there are too many people who want this thing!! :-)

boxingalcibiades said...

c.f. "Amused to Death" :

http://www.lyricsdepot.com/roger-waters/amused-to-death.html
And somewhere out there in the stars
A keen-eyed look-out
Spied a flickering light
Our last hurrah
And when they found our shadows
Grouped around the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death
No tears to cry no feelings left
This species has amused itself to death

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