Sujet : Re: YASID
De : lynnmcguire5 (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Lynn McGuire)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 20. Jun 2024, 01:48:45
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On 6/19/2024 4:02 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> wrote:
Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> wrote:
What's the short story that inspired the film "Idiocracy"?
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Or maybe didn't "inspire" it, but the idea is the same. Might have
been late Golden Age.
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Never mind! I decided to kick my DuckDuckGoFu into high gear and
found it myself: "The Marching Morons" by Cyril Kornbluth.
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In 'The Marching Morons', one way Homo Dumb was misled to think he lived
a sophisticated life was that his mediocre cars played fake vroom vroom
noises into the cabin.
I was amused to find that now some 'sporty' cars do exactly this.
Pt
Ford F-150 trucks with the dual turbo ecoboost V6 play V8 sounds over the radio. I find it to be quite stupid.
Lynn
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