Thursday, October 15, 2009

Still No Jet Pack

When we were kids jet packs seemed pretty much guaranteed to be a reality by the time we grew up. It’s been three decades now and the jet pack dream is as far away as ever. All these scientists, all this science, and no jet pack. Millions spent trying to find pointless cures for cancer and AIDS and herpes and so on. Why not have them work on the jet pack, the GUARANTEED cure for depression? Lend the most suicidal, miserable putz in the world a jet pack – fucking forget it. You wouldn’t be able to sandblast the grin off that guy’s face afterwards.

"I don't know that a jet pack would cure all that ails you,” you might say. “Plus they are totally possible already and in reality they are just gay.”

Right. Flying over the treetops. Who would want to do that? Who's ever had that dream, besides everyone who's ever slept?

Sounds like someone needs a jet pack, stat.

Also they are definitely not “totally possible already.” The so-called "jet packs" they have now are the same ones they had in the 70s that Super Dave Osbourne used to crash to such comic effect. They went straight up, sort of, and you kind of hovered around, bored. The real jet-packs (and by "real" I mean the ones that don't exist yet) that cure depression are the ones that enable you basically to fly like Superman, and that's nothing to sneeze at.

That’s a pretty great saying, by the way, isn’t it? “Nothing to sneeze at.” “You know, that so-and-so is pretty good. Not at all the sort of thing you’d want to blow boogers all over.” Well yes, I guess it must be good then.

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11 comments:

said...

This post has been up for like an hour and still no progress in the jet pack field.

said...

you fucking deadbeats. this is gold.

said...

You know, I have to agree. This has to be the best On The List post of all time.

said...

Calling your own posting on the list as the best of the list is most definitely on the list.

said...

It is, but he's pretty good. Pretty, pretty good.

said...

Nice jet pack, jerk.

said...

Haha. Love that line.

said...

Virtual Reality, too.

said...

Does this post get better with age or what? Amazing!

said...

What have you done for us lately?

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Time for a list retraction:
http://www.martinjetpack.com/

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