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Welcome! To the Year 2010!

Sady

Greetings, Time Traveler! Have you recently emigrated to this, our Future World, from the early 1990s? Your appalling standard of dress informs me that this is so! I do hope your travels have not been overly taxing. Please, enjoy our fine restaurants, hotels, and venues of entertainment! Marvel at our strange customs of “texting” and utilizing “the Tumblr!” Behold the desperation on the faces of our many unemployed! Yes, our Future World is a bold and highly Futuristic place to be. At first, it may be disconcerting! But you will enjoy its novelty.

How may we entertain you, Citizen of the Early 1990s? Are you interested, perhaps, in… HUMOR? I have a delightful joke for you, in such a case! Allow me to relay it to you, now, on your arrival. It is this:

WHAAAAZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP.

Ha, ha ha! My tone of voice in pronouncing this word, you see, was akin to that of the actors in a commercial from your time period! Ah, wait: perhaps this commercial is too far in the Future for you. I apologize. The following joke, however, may be closer to your kind’s humor-standard:

Ha, ha ha, ho ho ho! Your President, you see, is rather promiscuous! Whereas your First Lady – will it interest you to know, Time Traveler, that she also is a politician of some note, in this dazzling Future Age? – is capable of de-shelling large nuts with the steel teeth located in her inner thighs! You may also choose to interpret this as evidence that she is a “ball buster,” or emasculating and unfeminine woman, capable of doing literal or figurative violence to the male genitalia with her refusal to accomodate them (again, literally or figuratively: it is a layered and sophisticated joke, this one) appropriately! Perhaps this is why her husband seeks solace in the affections of other women? Ho, ho ho! Such a joke is good for many a chortle, is it not?

Yes, research informs me that jokes along these lines were quite popular, in your era! Indeed, your kind is known to have repeated them several million times, particularly if you were the more obnoxious sort of Libertarian uncle, and had consumed a few beer units. But to you, I assume, it will still be fresh! It may interest you to know, Time Traveler, that this novelty joke-disposal unit was not even manufactured in your time. Ah, no! It is a new novelty joke-disposal unit, marketed and sold today, in 2010! We do these things, you see, to accomodate our booming Time Travel industry. It’s all just a part of the fun to be had, here in… THE FUTURE!

21 thoughts on Welcome! To the Year 2010!

  1. Didn’t one of these come out in 2009? During the election?

    Otherwise, well done, as usual, Sady!

  6. I shamefully admit to wanting both of those handy utensils for my own kitchen. I think they’re hilarious… especially since they both get picked on 🙂

    I mean, at least Bill is the one being made fun of for his apparent promiscuity… usually it’s the other way around.

    You’re hilarious, BTW.

  7. I am completely unamused by the Hillary nutcracker, and the post is awesome. But is it okay to giggle at the Bill corkscrew? I would be offended at a gadget depicting a woman known to have a lot of sex as, say, a pencil sharpener, so I guess I should be equally offended here. Any argument to the contrary would rely on the double standard that applies to men and women regarding sex. So maybe my gut reaction is incorrect–I shouldn’t be offended by a female pencil sharpener. (In short, I am hoping for permission to laugh at Bill without guilt.)

  10. Me too, Megan. Though I don’t think I could bring myself to buy one, since they appear to be a set.

    Also, ridiculously expensive! Yeesh.

  11. I don’t quite get why people think of Ms. Clinton as a “ball-buster” or “boner shrinker”. I think she is actually quite good looking, I would love to look like her or date a woman who looks like her, were I around her age (I would be too young now). Then again, I am not a straight male. I am a bi female, so maybe that is why.
    Oh well, more proof that there are still some men who are scared of powerful women, no matter how “hot” they are.

    1. @Marksman: Oh, right! I forgot that attractiveness is actually totally objective, and not at all determined by one’s personal tastes! My apologies, for clearly Werewolf should have run this statement by YOU, Secretary In Charge of Determining Who Is Attractive, before submitting it to the public as a blog comment.

  14. If Marksman is available for Determining Who Is Attractive, shouldn’t we all take advantage of his expertise? I mean, opportunities like this don’t come around every day.

    Hey Marksman, am I attractive? If not, why not? Is it because of my hairy legs, my fat ass, or my man-hating harpiness?

  17. The nutcracker was around during the primaries. Not such a new “novelty” after all.

    Misogyny, of course, has been around since time began.

  18. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention- in Britain, we have these too, but they look like Margaret Thatcher and there isn’t a male equivalent as far as I know. So as much as I really don’t like Thatcher as a politician, it’s kind of shitty.

  19. I think I’d be quite pleased if I’d got to the point in my career where people were making George-nutcrackers. But only in the same sort of way that I’d be pleased if I woke up with vagina dentata.

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