Nightmare Machine on Wait Wait

[dicebourbon]

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 (starts at 4:21 in the "Bluff the Listener" segment).

The inventor's name is even Straus.

Could it just be a coincidence?

[dave from knoxville]

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 (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/ 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.

[Yannick]

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 (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.