September 19, 2009
Fast Fat and Out of Control Attention people who teach intro physics: attached please find the contents of your Monday lecture, courtesy the 1884 New York Times editorial board.
"The time is coming, however, when fat men will rival in speed the fastest bicycle, and light men will be utterly unable to compete with them."
The article is scanned in, and so it begins on the lower part of the left side, and continues at the top
I love futurism from the past. I betchya that you could find some things similarly awesome from a 1995 copy of Wired. One time at half price, I found this huge compendium of psychics predictions for the next twenty years that was published in 1978. My favorite prediction that they had was that Castro would retire and then host an international talk show.
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I love the ending: A man weighing 250 pounds and moving at the rate of twenty miles an hour would be about as dangerous as a locomotive, and unless roads are reserved exclusively for fast fat men, not a day will pass without its fatal and horrible collisions.
They also take a shot at fat postal workers in there.
posted by Ned at 07:10PM CST on September 20