I wasn’t alive in 1962, so I have no idea whether this computerized shopping assistant was considered amazing at the time. But sitting here in 2018, it seems like quite a bit of rigamarole to go through just to get a few gift ideas. I always have at least a person or two on my list for whom I have no idea what to get, but generally that’s solved by going to some stores and looking around for a while. I’m not sure this computer would be much faster than the I’ll know it when I see it method, but sometimes a list of suggestions like this would be nice to have as a starting point, if nothing else.
Does the New York department store guy sound more like Elmer Fudd or Mayor Quimby to you? I can’t make up my mind.
So firmly in camp Elmer Fudd. If you didn’t write that, I might have written something like “Be vehwy quiet sneaking up on cwistmas pwesents.”