Elvis Invasion imminent!
August 23rd, 2009 von
Daniel
Yesterday’s philosophical BBQ round brought up the evergreen of ridiculous topics: ELVIS.
When I mentioned my favourite stupidity about exponential growth I pointed out that in a few years a substantial amount of the world population should be “Elvisized”. I heard that some time ago, somewhere and didn’t really know any specifics, so I could not provide any details when asked for.
But now is the time to share this:
According to “Weasel” of the ZPG Reporter there were 48 Elvis impersonators when the great King died. I heard somewhere else that there were only three while Elvis was still performing, but I cannot cite a source here. Anyways, Weasel found out in 1977 that considering the growth rate of Elvis impersonators (in 1996 there were 7,238!) by 2012 every fourth person (!) on Earth will be an Elvis impersonator. [McKee, Sparing Nature - The Conflict Between Humen Population Growth and Earth’s Biodiversiy, p. 91]
Now we all know there are plenty of well performing and not-so-well performing Elvis copies around. But considering that 2012 is pretty close and obviously most of us do not have too many Elvises as neighbours there can be only one explanation: The wave of Elvises will take us by surprise and a global conspiracy will be revealed, inevitably leading to world dominanation of people in white suits and outdated haircuts!
Better be prepared and don’t say I haven’t warned you!
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