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Almost everyone familiar with the movie Jaws will remember this little ditty:There's a headstone in a graveyard, near a relative of mine, that always amuses me, it reads:
"HERE LIES AN ATHEIST,
ALL DRESSED UP,
AND NO PLACE TO GO."
"Here lies the body of Mary Lee
Died at the age of 103
For 15 years she kept her virginity
Not a bad record for this vicinity"
What most people don't know is that it was ad-libbed by actor Robert Shaw on the day. After filming the scene, director Steven Spielberg asked Shaw where he'd gotten the poem and explained that they would have to pay the author royalties in order for them to legitimately use it in the movie. Shaw explained he'd read it on a tombstone in a cemetery near his home in Ireland, and joked that Spielberg probably didn't have to worry about it.
I've lost count of the number of imbeciles I've seen who were so entranced by their cell phones that they didn't bother to check for traffic as they stepped off of the curb to cross a street, and only survived being run over by the grace of the drivers who just happened to be paying attention.Since generation 1990, here in Germany, youth is absolutely magnetized on mobilephones, got mobilphones since childhood.
We "older" call them "smartphone-autists/smartphone-autism". The kids walking the crosswalk slowly, like hypnotized smurfs ("Beanie"-toques), that you like to get out of car and push them on the other side of the street.
And we think: "If you know, how we laugh about your mostly useless electronic-psychoses."