Frazz; What happened? Boy: I was reading this old magazine and saw an ad: "Imagine yourself in a mercury." Frazz: Imagined too fast? Boy: I get sick when I read in the car.
You did notice that the kid said he’s reading an OLD magazine. Could be for, oh, a ‘57 Merc with a huge motor and really gooshy suspension. That’ll bring on motion sickness really quick.
Well if i had moneyTell you what I’d doI’d go downtown and buy a Mercury or twoCrazy ‘bout a MercuryLord I’m crazy bout a MercuryI’m gonna buy me a MercuryAnd cruise it up and down the road
Alexikakos: To get back to the cartoon, it is the prolonged peripheral movement while trying to concentrate on reading that causes the motion sickness. Driving, one must notice a large number of things (traffic signs being just one of many) and there is not the contrast.
I used to get sick if I tried to read in a car. I also used to read aloud to my now-wife, then girlfriend in her undergrad years when she was unwinding by doing totally non-school things, like quilting. On our first long car trip, I compensated by glancing at the book, committing a few lines to short-term memory, and reciting it while looking up at the road, repeat as necessary. Before the trip was over, I no longer got sick, and now read to my wife and kids.
interceptor over 11 years ago
My diagnosis: Mercury poisoning.
seyleigh over 11 years ago
It is a sign of my chemistry- frazzled brain that I immediately thought of a mercury thermometer.
vwdualnomand over 11 years ago
mercury, is that still around?
Magnolia42 over 11 years ago
Perhaps, NASA’s Project Mercury!
kingstonave over 11 years ago
Happens to me whenever I listen to old recordings of Quicksilver Messenger Service.
Varnes over 11 years ago
vwduelnomad, yep……around the sun….
puddleglum1066 over 11 years ago
You did notice that the kid said he’s reading an OLD magazine. Could be for, oh, a ‘57 Merc with a huge motor and really gooshy suspension. That’ll bring on motion sickness really quick.
catzilla23 over 11 years ago
For those old enough: Jesus drove a Plymouth – “…and he drove them from the Temple in his Fury”
cipactli77 over 11 years ago
Well if i had moneyTell you what I’d doI’d go downtown and buy a Mercury or twoCrazy ‘bout a MercuryLord I’m crazy bout a MercuryI’m gonna buy me a MercuryAnd cruise it up and down the road
hippogriff over 11 years ago
Alexikakos: To get back to the cartoon, it is the prolonged peripheral movement while trying to concentrate on reading that causes the motion sickness. Driving, one must notice a large number of things (traffic signs being just one of many) and there is not the contrast.
childe_of_pan about 7 years ago
I used to get sick if I tried to read in a car. I also used to read aloud to my now-wife, then girlfriend in her undergrad years when she was unwinding by doing totally non-school things, like quilting. On our first long car trip, I compensated by glancing at the book, committing a few lines to short-term memory, and reciting it while looking up at the road, repeat as necessary. Before the trip was over, I no longer got sick, and now read to my wife and kids.