Riddle me this Date Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 03:40 PM PST Topic Questions This question is directed to all other consumers who will soon be roaming the isles of your local drug store. Ten years from now, where do you all think that toothbrush technology will go? Honestly, how many ways can toothbrush reach your back teeth? Go to Eckerd’s and take a look. I find this truly breathtaking. There are brushes out now where you press a button in order for it to bend. With the way these items are advertised, you’d think your back teeth are the final frontier. Soon NASA will be funding dives and excavations to the back teeth just to see how much plaque your toothbrush is missing. I can imagine that soon they will have lights on them. Now sit back and watch as this prediction comes true. I have an insane amount of faith that by 2005, toothbrushes will have little tiny headlights so you can see down your throat. “Come on now children, I want you to scrub that uvula very hard”. They will have Industrial strength cobalt tipped bristles able to support of to 8000 pounds of pressure. They will have laser pointers, those little pen pocket clips, and maybe the handle will be made of that same type of memory foam that is in the commercials fro mattresses and pillows. As seen on TV! I've been using the simple bristle-sticks the dentist gives me since was a little boi (no, not the exact same brush silly, but the same design). I'll never understand this. It also seems to me that the sex industry and the electric toothbrush industry have some sort of secret contract so as to make products with interchangeable parts. Imagine walking into Walgreen’s to buy a toothbrush when, from the corner of your eye, you spot a box sporting the phrase "now, with indexable portions equal to that of a vibrator! Brush your teeth, then go for a hummer, all for a low $19.95". I don't often shop for vibrators so I'm going to assume that makes sense. Another thing I’ve noticed- what's with this new type of breath mint? Those little paper squares that disintegrate on your tongue... what, are all mint companies in some type of massive race to make the smallest/lightest/STRONGEST mints possible? Just to think- at some point an old man in a business suit sitting at the head of a cherry wood table in the offices of Certs, Inc. in Wherever, Kentucky actually had to say to his Junior Vice Presidents "Men, studies show that the American public is growing tired of the mints we sell them. Mints so small that half of them get lost in your seat cushions when you're frantically trying to pop one in as the officer who has pulled you over walks toward your car, are no longer good enough for our consumers.“ He bangs fist on desk. “We need to corner the market, we need anything before those damn Smint bastards beat us again!!!" Just then, the Man in charge of office supplies walks in and hands the angry C.E.O. a tape dispenser. ..............Five minutes later............."Eureka!!!!" This article comes from Shmeng http://www.shmeng.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.shmeng.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=384