> Brian Bell wrote:
I'm surprised you haven't mentioned:
Ten Sir, Nine Sir, Eight Sir, Seven Sir, Six Sir Five Four Three Two One
Tenser! said the Tensor, Tenser! said the Tensor, Tension Apprehension and
Dissention have begun (Rifff) Tenser! said the Tensor....
Which is almost on-topic, it's the Psi Shield written by
Duffy Wyg& in "The Demolished Man" by.... ALFRED BESTER.
Hence B-5.
The only other SF-related can't-stop-thinking-of-it jingle
that comes to mind is in the story "Rum Titty Titty Tum TAH Tee".
Thank goodness, I thought I was the only one!!!! Nothing like synaptic
misfiring to keep you amused. Wouldn't that be a cyber-ware boon. A chip
that tracks down the source of that damned commercial jingle /tv theme
/beatles song /poem that is vexing you and eliminates it, maybe it could
also sort through and index your memory so that you can always remember the
name of that guy, you know, the one on that tv show, the one that did the
thing, you know him...
Goin' a little spacey here
Gene
> ----------
> Thank goodness, I thought I was the only one !!!! Nothing like
Yet another incentive for time travel: eliminate those jingles before they are
written!
> At 10:36 3/10/98, George,Eugene M wrote:
Actually, this could be both a bane and a boon.... what if you couldn't stop
it? This chip would basically give you perfect memory, and memory
being a relational/associative function in the human brain, the least
thought or stimuli could produce a deluge of information culled from the
entire lifetime that would leave the average user locked into an endless loop
of memory after memory. Then again, it might be a (cynical, vicious and
unethical) way to handle the problem of aging baby boomers....
And besides (to drag the thread a bit closer to topic) can you imagine how
insufferable the rules lawyers would get with a chip like this? They could not
only cite chapter and verse of the rule they're using against you, but
historical precendents back to the invention of chess. >O.o<
Come to think of it, I've met too many people who can do this already... no
point in making it commonly available, ne?
> Alan E & Carmel J Brain wrote:
> Alan Brain wrote:
> Brian Bell wrote:
I read that 25 years ago and still haven't forgotten it. Too bad in the B5
episode about the underground railroad for telepaths they used "Mary had a
little lamb" instead.
Enjoy,