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"In five years, the penis will be obsolete," said the salesman.He paused to let this planet-shattering information sink into our amazed brains. Personally, I didnt know how many more wonders I could absorb before lunch."With the right promotional campaign," he went on, breathlessly, "it might take as little as years.He might even have been right. Stranger things have happened in my lifetime. But I decided to hold off on calling my broker with frantic orders to sell all my jock-strap stock.The press conference was being held in a large auditorium belonging to United Bioengineers. It could seat about a thousand; it presently held about a fifth that number, most of us huddled together in the fr...
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"In five years, the penis will be obsolete," said the salesman.He paused to let this planet-shattering information sink into our amazed brains. Personally, I didnt know how many more wonders I could absorb before lunch."With the right promotional campaign," he went on, breathlessly, "it might take as little as years.He might even have been right. Stranger things have happened in my lifetime. But I decided to hold off on calling my broker with frantic orders to sell all my jock-strap stock.The press conference was being held in a large auditorium belonging to United Bioengineers. It could seat about a thousand; it presently held about a fifth that number, most of us huddled together in the fr...
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"In five years, the penis will be obsolete," said the salesman.He paused to let this planet-shattering information sink into our amazed brains. Personally, I didnt know how many more wonders I could absorb before lunch."With the right promotional campaign," he went on, breathlessly, "it might take as little as years.He might even have been right. Stranger things have happened in my lifetime. But I decided to hold off on calling my broker with frantic orders to sell all my jock-strap stock.The press conference was being held in a large auditorium belonging to United Bioengineers. It could seat about a thousand; it presently held about a fifth that number, most of us huddled together in the fr...
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"In five years, the penis will be obsolete," said the salesman.He paused to let this planet-shattering information sink into our amazed brains. Personally, I didnt know how many more wonders I could absorb before lunch."With the right promotional campaign," he went on, breathlessly, "it might take as little as years.He might even have been right. Stranger things have happened in my lifetime. But I decided to hold off on calling my broker with frantic orders to sell all my jock-strap stock.The press conference was being held in a large auditorium belonging to United Bioengineers. It could seat about a thousand; it presently held about a fifth that number, most of us huddled together in the fr...
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"In five years, the penis will be obsolete," said the salesman.He paused to let this planet-shattering information sink into our amazed brains. Personally, I didnt know how many more wonders I could absorb before lunch."With the right promotional campaign," he went on, breathlessly, "it might take as little as years.He might even have been right. Stranger things have happened in my lifetime. But I decided to hold off on calling my broker with frantic orders to sell all my jock-strap stock.The press conference was being held in a large auditorium belonging to United Bioengineers. It could seat about a thousand; it presently held about a fifth that number, most of us huddled together in the fr...
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"This is a recording. Please do not hang up until-". I slammed the phone down so hard it fell onto the floor. Then I stood there, dripping wet and shaking with anger. Eventually, the phone started to make that buzzing noise they make when a receiver is off the hook. Its twenty times as loud as any sound a phone can normally make, and I always wondered why. As though it was such a terrible disaster: "Emergency! Your telephone is off the hook!!!". Phone answering machines are one of the small annoyances of life. Confess, do you really like talking to a machine? But what had just happened to me was more than a petty irritation. I had just been called by an automatic dialing machine.Theyre fairl...
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"This is a recording. Please do not hang up until-". I slammed the phone down so hard it fell onto the floor. Then I stood there, dripping wet and shaking with anger. Eventually, the phone started to make that buzzing noise they make when a receiver is off the hook. Its twenty times as loud as any sound a phone can normally make, and I always wondered why. As though it was such a terrible disaster: "Emergency! Your telephone is off the hook!!!". Phone answering machines are one of the small annoyances of life. Confess, do you really like talking to a machine? But what had just happened to me was more than a petty irritation. I had just been called by an automatic dialing machine.Theyre fairl...
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