Headlines from the Dysfunctional Future of Naught for Hire
The future of Naught for Hire is comically (sometimes) dysfunctional, a future filled by technology built by mega-corporations focused solely on the bottom line. Numerous appliances are built with AIs that exhibit an array of personality disorders.
Fast Food Franchise Announces "Low-Fat" Meals with New Secret Sauce: Phentermine. |
Eight Cars Go Over Grand Canyon Rim Before GPS Map Error Corrected |
Road Maintenance Machine Lays Speed Bumps Across Santa Monica Freeway. Cars Lodged in Overpasses. |
President Madonna to Wed Again |
Off-Duty Cop Shoots 3D Lobby Ad for Lethal Weapon 8: "I thought I was under fire" |
Wal-Mart Owned by Day Traders After Giant NASDAQ Snafu |
India outsources telemarketing jobs to US. American employees will be "named" Rajesh and Amit. |
Stadium Seatwarmers Recalled for Exploding Batteries--Dubbed "The Fire Down Below" |
Photored Camera Malfunction--No Pics of Red Light Runners, Just Cleavage |
Lovestruck Man Uses Giant Hologram to Append "Y" to the Famous HOLLYWOOD Sign |
Man Testing Diet Drug and Muscle Builder Looks Like Popeye. Even Has Stutter. |
Damaged Multiplex Theater Reopens When Employee Brings Bigger Screen from Home. |
New Oil Spills Off West Coast--More Exploding Seagulls Over Beach Fire Pits |
US Apologizes to Canada for Nuke Snafu, Adds "Hey, it's not like it went off" |
Tanker Truck Autopilots Hacked. Gigantic Collision Produces Massive Mix of Chocolate and Strawberries. |
Teen Shot in Bar. Blames Ringtone "You talkin' to me?" |
Blazing Saddles Vandals Spike Metropolitan Opera Drinks--Dubbed "Concerto in B-Flatulence" |
So many Smartphone apps installed, updates consume almost all available bandwidth. Just enough left for old-style texting like R U OK--or F U AT&T. |
Shots Fired at PC: Woman Taken Away Repeating "No, I said you can't install updates!" |
Robot Sex Doll Files Restraining Order. |
Intelligence-enhanced Turkeys Surprise Hunters. "Hey, watch where you're putting that meat thermometer." |
Flash Mob Using Laser Pointers on White House Puts USA on Defcon 1 |
Robocaller Ignores List and Keeps Calling People with "Soothing Voices" |
California Bankrupt After Lottery Snafu Awards Grand Prize to Thousands of People |
New mousetrap hunts mice. Most mice so spooked they just leave. |
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