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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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On 6/19/2024 4:02 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
> Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> wrote:
>> Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> wrote:
>>> What's the short story that inspired the film "Idiocracy"?
>>
>>> Or maybe didn't "inspire" it, but the idea is the same. Might have
>>> been late Golden Age.
>>
>> Never mind! I decided to kick my DuckDuckGoFu into high gear and
>> found it myself: "The Marching Morons" by Cyril Kornbluth.
>>
> 
> In 'The Marching Morons', one way Homo Dumb was misled to think he lived
> a sophisticated life was that his mediocre cars played fake vroom vroom
> noises into the cabin.
> 
> I was amused to find that now some 'sporty' cars do exactly this.
> 
> Pt

Ford F-150 trucks with the dual turbo ecoboost V6 play V8 sounds over 
the radio.  I find it to be quite stupid.

Lynn