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What's really great about this is that it's a joke on the future that's been predicted so many times already, my favorite of which being the last vignette on Di
by eddieroger 11y ago
What's really great about this is that it's a joke on the future that's been predicted so many times already, my favorite of which being the last vignette on Disney's Carousel of Progress. The future family is talking about points in a video game, and the oven hears it and turns the temperature way up, ruining another family Christmas dinner - the joke being that this convenience was finally going to make Dad able to not ruin dinner.
- jandrese 11y agoI remember this joke going way back to the DOS days. The story goes that a developer was demoing his new voice control system for the computer when from the back of the room a voice shouted "FORMAT C COLON", followed by another voice shouting "YES".
- dalke 11y agoThere's an SNL skit from the 1970s with a (vaguely) similar premise. The short-order cook takes the order when the waitstaff yells out "cheeseburger". A patron doesn't want a cheeseburger as it's too early. The waitstaff says that it's not too early and everyone else has ordered a cheeseburger, and points to the other patrons exclaiming for each "cheeseburger". Which causes the cook to start making a large number of cheeseburgers. Here's the skit: https://youtu.be/puJePACBoIo?t=215 https://youtu.be/puJePACBoIo?t=215 . These are all jokes based on in-band signalling failures.
- zyxley 11y agoIt's a joke in one of the old Dilbert strips, too. "I hope you don't accidentally DELETE a FILE!"
- ljk 11y ago30 Rock also did something similar!