Truth is stranger...

[jducoeur]

Tonight's medical report on the nightly news was all about the latest forms of RSI: "cell phone elbow" and "Blackberry thumb". And on the one hand, I can see why these are arising, and I sympathize with the sufferers. But on the other, I can't help but feel that, if Mad Magazine or the Onion had written exactly that article, in exactly those words, a few years years ago it would have been considered terribly funny...

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[gyzki.livejournal.com]

MAD Magazine has had a tremendous track record of humorous predictions that turned out to come true. Air pollution from aerosol cans, cars that wouldn't start until the driver buckled their seatbelt a/o passed a breathalyzer test, a long-running comedy set in the Korean War, photo development so fast people expect them back the same day. Really, Blackberry Thumb would be nothing. (Actually, it makes me think of Little Jack Horner.)