Where's the DeLorean mr. Carlssin?

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Where's the DeLorean mr. Carlssin?

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http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20030319/104808600007.html

NEW YORK -- Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading charges -- and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!


I dunno what to say... Ba-a-ah?
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Weekly World News wrote:Officials are quite confident the "time-traveler's" claims are bogus. Yet the SEC source admits, "No one can find any record of any Andrew Carlssin existing anywhere before December 2002."
What the fuck??

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This looks like something to follow...
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Going from $800 to $350 million. :shock:

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The probability of his having connections inside all those companies he invested in are very small.

Of course, the probability of his having a working time machine is even more infinitisimally small...
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Shoot him and see if he regenerates
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You guys do realize that the source is a tabloid, right?
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Beowulf wrote:You guys do realize that the source is a tabloid, right?
No, it doesn't matter, I wouldn't believe it if it was on the New York Times or whatever respectable magazines there are.
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But it's so stupid it HAS to be true.
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Maybe it's Dr. Emmett Brown using one of his aliases.. :D then Marty McFly isn't far away...
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Ahh, using future information is inside trading IMO (or at least, should be illegal anyway) so write a book, then throw it at him!
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It's from the Weekly World News. This is a "newspaper" that routinely prints headlines such as, "Bible Predicts [Insert Horrible Catastrophe Here]!", "45 Pound Baby Born!", "Horse-sized Rats Terrorize Midwest", and once, I swear, "Scientists Plan to Blow Up Moon: Say We'd Be Better Off Without It". I'm not going to take this story very seriously (by which I mean it's got as much credibility as Scooter).
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Post by CmdrSweevo »

Heh, misread the title. "Where's the DeLorean, Calrissian?" That could be a fun fic...
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Just read it and they forgot to ask him if there are flying cars and FTL starships in the future. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Post by Col. Crackpot »

:lol:

hmmmm.....ok mr time traveler, explain to me why your futere self hasn't found out about your arrest and zapped you back to the future. [red foreman] dumbass [/red foreman]
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Col. Crackpot wrote::lol:

hmmmm.....ok mr time traveler, explain to me why your futere self hasn't found out about your arrest and zapped you back to the future. [red foreman] dumbass [/red foreman]
Maybe its only one way time-travel, like in Terminator.

Hey, maybe he's a criminal from the future and his prison sentence is getting sent to the past...
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It's from Weekly World News.

It's a really tongue-in-cheek, satirical tabloid. Funny, but not surprising.

Did you read the one about the half-alligator man? Or that NASA saw Heaven through the Hubble telescope? :lol:
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my favorite tabloid story was always bat boy, the half human half bat. Hell it was like a story arc that went on for year. After sept 11th the enquirer even had a story entitled: "Bat Boy joins the Marines"
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My favorite tabloid headline was:


Elvis, Hitler, and JFK alive in Argentina

I should have framed that one. :mrgreen:
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Glocksman wrote:My favorite tabloid headline was:


Elvis, Hitler, and JFK alive in Argentina

I should have framed that one. :mrgreen:
Ohhhh, so thats how that whole Falklands thing got started! :lol:
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Tell Braxton, he is in violation of the temporal prime directive. :roll: :lol:

I am reminded of a scene, from I don't remember where, a man says "So you can see the future eh?" (Or words to that effect)
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