The following is an excerpt from this article. Pop quiz: When was this written? I'm looking for the year. Answer appears at the end of the quote.
"The ROBOTS Are Coming!Our civilization is being invaded by a horde of mechanical men who are determined to change our way of life. But there’s no need to worry. It’s all in the spirit of good fellowship.
By Lester David
A STRANGE, awesome army of Things is invading the planet Earth!
This is not science fiction but cold fact. The Vanguard of this army is here already and has secured a firm beachhead. A vast body of others is on the way.
These weird monsters are busy altering your world even now. Within the next several decades, after they are firmly entrenched in farm, home, laboratory and factory, your work, your habits, your entire life will be unrecognizable. Nothing can stop them! But don’t be alarmed —this is a friendly invasion by an army which man himself is now busily creating.
These, you see, are the robots and this is how they will change your way of living: ..."
The answer is 1953.
"Hello boys and girls! Can you say 'ironic'?"
"I knew you could!"
I decided against posting the pictures that accompanied this article because I didn't want to give young children nightmares. Click on the link if you haven't already.
The cover picture of the giant Santa is nightmare numero uno. I was scared enough of Santa when I was a little kid, I can't imagine the kind of damage seeing this in person would have done to me. It had to have been created specifically to terrify children because it's the only likeness of Santa that I've ever seen with veins in his eyeballs.
2 comments:
Yeah, that is one creepy looking santa. At what point in the idea stage did someone say "I know, let's make a HUGE santa head, bigger than a person, ooh, ooh, and he has to have bulging menacing eyes that pierce like a dull spoon"?
By the way, I am still waiting for my hover car.
I LOVE the look on the boy's face!
And it's a good thing he's pulling on the beard...as if he couldn't tell already that the Santa's not real.
M-G, I too was hoping for hover cars and I thought FOR SURE there'd be moving sidewalks by now... You see, I always had to walk to/from school and was so jealous of my friends who's parents dropped them off and picked them up, so I was forever dreaming of moving sidewalks where I didn't actually have to walk. (apparently, that was more feasiable to me than EVER having my parents drive me!! )
--schmo
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