Obsolescence

[billroper]

tarkrai passed this article along on another list that we're both on. It appears that a doctor doing research on chronic pain has discovered the orgasmatron.

At only $17,000 fully-implanted, it's cheaper than many cars. And many husbands and boyfriends...

Comments

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

SHHH... Don't Spread It Around!

If THEY find out about this, THEY'll only keeps us around to fix things and take out the garbage!

This could spell the end of civilization as we know it!

????!

[weirdsister.livejournal.com]

You fix things and take out the garbage? Would you please tell my husband that men do that? LOL

[tnatj.livejournal.com]

Where are the wooden shoes? Where are le sabots!

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, right. Let that implant carry their shopping.

[poltr1]

Damn. The next round of bad news is that I'm being replaced with a turkey baster. :-(

Now, where have I heard the name 'Orgasmatron' before? Flesh Gordon?

[billroper]

I see one web site that references Woody Allen's film, "Sleeper", as the source. I've never actually seen the film.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

Really? I know I saw "Sleeper" when ChUSFA showed it, and I would have thought that was while you were still in C-U. (Yes, it is the origin of the term 'orgasmatron'.)

[billroper]

I seem to recall that some other organization showed "Sleeper" while I was at C-U, so ChUSFA probably showed it after I left campus.

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Yes, the "Orgasmatron" is from Woody Allen's "Sleeper". Course the funniest scene involving it is when Woody's character hides in it solo, avoiding the police. The look on his face and the smoke rising from his ears afterwards was priceless.

[catalana.livejournal.com]

It's really sad when you suffer from enough lower back pain to think "Damn - I wish it had worked better for chronic pain sufferers."

Sorry, y'all, but I'm way more interested in serious spinal pain relief research than new ways of having orgasms. Still, this was amusing. *smile*

[billroper]

*ouch*

Maybe if they move the electrode to a slightly different location? (Apparently, it was at least somewhat effective.)