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Travelers Can Now Buy a Can of '100 Percent Authentic Air' From Italy's Lake Como (www.smithsonianmag.com)

submitted 1 week ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago

Sci-fi comedy predicting the future again.

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

In other news, travelers have began bottling air themselves, causing bottled air futures contracts to plummet in overnight trading and reach lows not seen since 2009

[–] pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

On a barely related note, that reminds me of this classic financial media segment.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago

Great, now President Scroob is going to come and suck it all up

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Someone's buying a jar of farts.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago

Only those who visit Lake Como can want to buy our souvenir; memories are not bought but lived.

Amazing.

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

It's canned in a factory that reeks of old cement and lubrication.