Many years ago, there was a simply premised comedy sketch on Saturday Night Live.
It was an 'infomercial' for the "WORD EXCHANGE".
The idea was that everytime a word is used, those in the word exchange get a royalty.
It allowed 'ordinary' people to by 'exotic words' under the hope that one day (future's market) they would become popular- think of 'Hula-Hoop' before it became a fad. Or, you could by a share of a commonly used word like "the".
If you already owned shares in a word, like say "buggy whip", you could lose money as the word fell out of fashion.
How bang on those sketch writer's were!
Reading Bernie's OP is likely deja vue all over again!
Now, at the same time SNL had some real fun with the introduction of a razor with TWO !!!!! blades. And mocked the future where any idiot that would fall for the concept of TWO !!!! blades, would be stupid enough to go for a THREE BLADED product!
Well, here we are all these years later, and for those IDIOTS out there using FIVE blade razors, maybe Saturday Night Live was right.
Who needs economic forecasters. A few hours of old Saturday Night Live episodes, and the future magically reveals itself.
(at least in the cases noted above- it was bang on!)
WORD EXCHANGE- THREE BLADE RAZORS..........ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
What next, an international web site where people who have never met each other can safely trade PEZ dispensers ???
