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New and Improved
Contributed by
softerware
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Sunday, 22nd May 2016 @ 09:08:48 PM in AEST
Topic:
insomniac
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Have you noticed here and there
all the stuff that disappears?
What for instance now embraced;
Has, or soon will be erased?
Travel agents used to be;
Until Travelocity;
What good will a wrist watch do;
If cellphones keep the time for you?
Paper road maps, once were prized;
Til GPSd and miniaturized.
Pedias sold door-to-door;
Have no salesmen anymore.
Britannicas gone media;
From books to Wikopedia!
Not even Polaroid could save;
Camera film its early grave;
Now they sell bouquets and such;
At former drive-thru film drop huts!
When CRT went LCD,
so did lightbulbs, yessiree;
Incandescent and florescent;
Turned into a poor investment!
Paper mail is fading fast;
How long can the mailman last?
Wont your grandkids get a kick;
To see a stamp you had to lick?
Bookstores arent far behind;
Will libraries be next in line?
Amazon and ebooks too;
Save our trees, and speak to you!
What was once our Home Sweet Home;
A sanctuary all our own;
Met at last a wireless ending;
Work and homelife now are blending.
Smartphones, laptops stretch the reach;
We cant go home without our leash.
Wireless phones have come around;
Poles and landlines coming down.
Will we recall when it expires;
The sight of birds along the wires?
Craigslist, Angies list and such;
Ground the classifieds to dust;
Newspapers will soon be gone;
The ones who warned us all along!
Great inventions we embrace;
Vanish all without a trace;
Every age enjoys its wonders;
Til the next one plows them under!
Welcome progress as it brings;
Ever modern offerings!
Let us put the past to rest;
(and do try hard to look impressed).
Copyright ©
softerware
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2016-05-22 21:08:48]
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Re: New and Improved
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by JamesStockdale on
Monday, 23rd May 2016 @ 02:37:42 PM AEST
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Wow this was great. Half the stuff I forgot about. Me, I like living the old way. It was far simpler and more entertaining. Instant gratification brings the kind of trolls we have online today. How about talking over a hedge instead of on Facebook?
Absolutely brilliant as always.
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Re: New and Improved
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by RussellReinhardt on
Monday, 23rd May 2016 @ 02:53:20 PM AEST
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Stunning absolutely stunning. All you say is so true, however I must confess I/'/m a gadget junky. I love my tablet, before I had it I walked around with about 15 pounds of paperwork. Now the office mails me all my reports I need and my tablet weighs maybe a half a pound or less. Awesome tool wouldn/'/t swap it for anything and it helps save trees, where I can take my love for a picnic. God bless.
Greetings
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Re: New and Improved
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by Invierno on
Monday, 23rd May 2016 @ 03:49:15 PM AEST
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Wow...marvelous job of cataloging all that we are losing. So true! So VERY sadly true. $^%&^*&*(+))*.
Brilliant in flow and scheme, as always. It/'/s always amazes me that you can put together a long poem and never force a rhyme...a gift. Also, there is never a /'/sigh/'/ at the beginning when I note the length, because I know (if yours) it will just hop, skip and dance along until I/'/m done and wanting more.
You beat me to the punch on this...
a poem/'/s been stewing for awhile,
but as I read your poem without remiss,
there/'/s aught regrets to tug my smile.
Very well done!
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Re: New and Improved
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by Former_Member on
Wednesday, 25th May 2016 @ 12:04:03 PM AEST
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I still wear a wris/*****/ch at work. Don/'/t wanna break another cellphone. :p
Love my GPS! Never got along with maps. ;-)
Another great write from our wonderful softerware! I did indeed enjoy it.
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Re: New and Improved
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by unknown_utopia on
Wednesday, 25th May 2016 @ 12:38:05 PM AEST
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we will all be assimilated
who and what will be remembered.... |
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