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Saturday, April 27, 2013

What a Child Might Say a Generation after Small Teleportation Devices Are Invented

“Grandpa, what were toilets?”

I was inspired by a recent article on 10 Terrible Tech Frustrations My Toddler Will Never Have. The development of small teleportation devices that can fit inside a bladder or colon would explain why characters in SF stories almost never have to go to the bathroom.

2 Comments:

Anonymous TJIC said...

When I was a kid in the 1970s I was frustrated by all the time wasted in bathrooms and thought that when we finally got Trek style teleporters, it was OBVIOUS that we'd teleport excrement out of ourselves.

I got funny looks for expressing this idea aloud.

11:10 AM  
Anonymous Vader said...

The thought of the excrement teleporter getting a tad out of alignment, and teleporting away a bit of your rectum along with the excrement, is not a happy thought.

12:04 PM  

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