22 Oct
2005
22 Oct
'05
5 p.m.
From: Chuck Guzis [mailto:cclist at sydex.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 3:40 PM
This whole business reminds me of an old scifi short story
where a fellow
wakes up 100 years in the future and finds that car
speedometers go to 350
mph--but start somewhere around 200 at a dead stop.
Cheers,
Chuck
Wasn't it "The Marching Morons" by C. M. Kornbluth
Kelly
22 Oct
22 Oct
6:43 p.m.
From: "Kelly Leavitt" <CCTalk at catcorner.org>
The way I remember that one was that they had changed all the
speedometers to read in KPH instead of MPH, then added sound
effects to make 60KPH sound like the thing was flat out, when
everyone was really going about 37MPH.
It really sounds a lot like standard marketing practice, to me.
(My copy of the book is a couple of yards to my right.)
Vince
From: Chuck
Guzis [mailto:cclist at sydex.com]
This whole business reminds me of an old scifi short story
where a fellow
wakes up 100 years in the future and finds that car
speedometers go to 350
mph--but start somewhere around 200 at a dead stop.
Wasn't it "The Marching Morons" by C. M. Kornbluth 
6:49 p.m.
On 10/22/2005 at 5:00 PM Kelly Leavitt wrote:
Wasn't it "The Marching Morons" by C. M.
Kornbluth
Sounds like it could be (without looking). The story evolves that our hero
devises a scheme to rid the world of morons by starting a program to
colonize Mars. Of course, the rockets never reach Mars, but the fake mail
and tall tales keep the rockets full of volunteers. Right at about the
point where the whole scheme succeeds, our hero finds himself shanghaied on
such a rocket...
Cheers,
Chuck
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