For those harried parents seeking peace on earth — or at least in the grocery store — this holiday season, a New Zealand company called Cabco has just the thing. Shopping carts that show cartoons. A godsend for parents, or another step toward the destruction of U.S. civilization?
Here’s what Lori Borgman of McClatchy Newspapers had to say about it:
Children are now able to watch television from the comfort of home, in the car on the way to the grocery store, while at the grocery store, in the car on the way home from the grocery store, and once again when finally back at home. If you could rig a pulley from the refrigerator to the living room, the little darlings might never have reason to leave a sitting position.
So, what do you think? is this a useful distraction so parents can get their shopping done more quickly? Or another unnecessary intrustion of TV into children’s lives?
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Careful, America! If we’re not careful, the Chart of the Nucleides Charlie, Periodic Table Terry and Mathematics Mollie cartoons that will soon play on Australian shopping cart TV may make Australia the world’s foremost scientific country.
Once there was a U-2-thirty-5,
Who met up with a thermal Neutron.
Their kids had kids had kids had kids
And that’s how the chain reaction survived.
Catchy!
- Posted by Shawn Hendricks