Word: forget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mike, how can we ever forget last year at Yale...
Petunia Power. For example, the Forget-Me-Not computer, which will next appear at the Ontario Science Center in Toronto, was financed, with extraordinary largesse, by Honeywell, the for-real computer manufacturer-and is a hilarious sendup of the whole electronic-brain industry. It comes in three parts -"like Henry IV, or whoever it was," according to its creator-all of them visibly risible. It is shaped like an elephant, in accordance, says Emett, with Livingstone's Law: "Memory may hold the door, but elephants never forget." Among its components are an eeny-meeny-miney-mo unit (random selection...
Last week, as bait for a British trade fair, Emett's incomparable Forget-Me-Not computer (it does everything but compute) drew wide-eyed throngs to Wanamaker's in Philadelphia. His Exploratory Moon-Probe Lunacycle MAUD, (Manually Assisted Universal ,Deviator), complete with Astrocat ("Since cats always land on their feet, she is carried to establish which way up gravity is"), is reverently ensconced in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. The Emett Vintage Car of the Future, dedicated to the Spirit of Future Retrogression, is installed at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry...
...that may yet make Emettiana an American household word. Mary, his loving wife and canny business brains of 35 years, concurs. Emett will nonetheless retain his wry, sly urge to celebrate and spoof humanity. At the trade fair in Philadelphia last week, an onlooker buttonholed the creator of the Forget-Me-Not computer and demanded: "But what's the end product?" Emett's considered answer: "To bring the smallest smile to the eye of the beholder...
...forget the Franklin Park Zoo, which is holding a pumpkin decorating contest on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Free pumpkins available at the zoo, or bring your own. Prizes, including zoo T-shirts, membership in the Boston Zoological Society animal posters and "Bird's World" bumperstickers, will be awarded to the funniest, scariest and most-like-an-animal pumpkins. Zoo staff will be on hand with decorating ideas