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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: dicebourbon on November 13, 2011, 02:13:20 PM
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On Wait Wait Don't Tell Me yesterday, during the "Bluff the Listener" segment, one of the fake news items was about a new invention called "Welcome To My Nightmare", a "bad dream machine" which is described pretty much the same way as the Nightmare Machine™.
You can listen here: http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=35&prgDate=11-12-2011 (http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=35&prgDate=11-12-2011) (starts at 4:21 in the "Bluff the Listener" segment).
The inventor's name is even Straus.
Could it just be a coincidence?
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On Wait Wait Don't Tell Me yesterday, during the "Bluff the Listener" segment, one of the fake news items was about a new invention called "Welcome To My Nightmare", a "bad dream machine" which is described pretty much the same way as the Nightmare Machine™.
You can listen here: http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=35&prgDate=11-12-2011 (http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=35&prgDate=11-12-2011) (starts at 4:21 in the "Bluff the Listener" segment).
The inventor's name is even Straus.
Could it just be a coincidence?
Not really related, but also in the "Could it just be a coincidence" category, here's a recent link to an Onion article about a guy who invents more and more elaborate stories to explain why he doesn't hang out anymore, reminded me an awful lot of a recent Best Show Gem in which the caller missed a softball game. http://www.theonion.com/articles/friends-excuses-for-why-he-cant-hang-out-getting-m,26600/ (http://www.theonion.com/articles/friends-excuses-for-why-he-cant-hang-out-getting-m,26600/) Of course it porbably is a coincidence, with so many people making comedy, common themes are bound to emerge, but it certainly seemed like the same idea.
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On Wait Wait Don't Tell Me yesterday, during the "Bluff the Listener" segment, one of the fake news items was about a new invention called "Welcome To My Nightmare", a "bad dream machine" which is described pretty much the same way as the Nightmare Machine™.
You can listen here: http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=35&prgDate=11-12-2011 (http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=35&prgDate=11-12-2011) (starts at 4:21 in the "Bluff the Listener" segment).
The inventor's name is even Straus.
Could it just be a coincidence?
If the inventor's name is Straus, its bound to be shout-ou/homage.