How Funerals Will Be When Gamers Die Of Old Age

Video game consoles have only been around for about forty years, so it will be a few more decades before Gen Xers reach their golden years and start telling "back in my day" stories about Pac-Man high scores and Atari 2600 consoles.

And when the original gamers start dying of old age they'll leave behind epic save files built up over a lifetime, achievements galore and a gamerscore their descendents can be proud of.

But, as this comic by Julia Lepetit shows, they'll also turn funerals into competitive events where the deceased gamer gets to call everyone a noob one last time.

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"About forty years"? Hey, that's me! Our first video game console was a pong. In wood grain, of course. http://www.pong-story.com/heathkit.htm

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A bicycle-tree hybrid. Genetic engineering has GONE TOO FAR!

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It is hoax. Trees only grow by their tops

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How many years has the tree? Look at the bike. Is that a 50th years old bike?

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I think the kid still on the bike. Where is the X-ray picture?

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Lola, I agree that it's a hoax, but if trees only grew by their tops, there would be a whole lot of really skinny trees in the world...

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I thought this looked familiar, that's my step-mother's favorite childrens book. It's cute, you should read it.

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It's actually not fake. I couldn't find it on snopes, but I found it elsewhere:

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==1412

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The tree is actually NOT eating the bicycle. It is simply growing around it.

If this is real, it was obviously set up a long, long time ago, and never touched since. Dubious, but not impossible.

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This is too good.

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Not a hoax, I've got a news clipping from the Oregonian (November 15, 1993) about the bike, with a pic of a man grasping the front wheel of the bike. The man, who lived in Vashon at the time, theorized that the bike had been there some 40 or 50 years.

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we have old trees around my house that have old barbwire (from the farm boarder) in them much like this bike

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I've been there - it is real, and very cool to boot. This isn't a hoax, staged or anything of the sort - just an example of what Nature will do if need be.

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