the Subsidized Time chronology: the calendar as ad inventory — "(1) Year of the Whopper (2)…"
(1) Year of the Whopper (2) Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad (3) Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar (4) Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken (5) Year of the Whisper-Quiet Maytag Dishmaster (6) Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade For Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office, Or Mobile (sic) (7) Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland (8) Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment (9) Year of Glad
Context
Subsidized Time in its barest institutional form: the year is "REVENUE-ENHANCING," trademarked, and auctioned to sponsors so that history is measured in product-launches — the Whopper, the Depend Adult Undergarment, Glad. This is the theme's purest artifact: the state monetizing the calendar itself, so that even to date an event is to recite an advertisement. Item (6), the unspellable Yushityu upgrade, is the joke's asymptote — commerce so total it breaks the sentence and earns a "(sic)."