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Post by: Martlet on March 31, 2003, 04:20:18 AM: http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20030319/104808600007.html
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Post by: Nash on March 31, 2003, 05:08:37 AM: From the weekly world news. I like this one also:

"Excited Swiss scientists say they've found the "eject button" inside your head that catapults your soul from your body when you die!"

:)
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Post by: -tronski- on March 31, 2003, 06:52:48 AM: 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."

Someone's been watching startrek

However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear the technology could "fall into the wrong hands."

I think I know where it is....

(http://www.markgoldie.co.uk/florida/photos/IMG_0053.JPG)

Tronsky
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Post by: Soulyss on March 31, 2003, 07:08:09 AM: like your siggy there tronsky, you got good taste in TV shows. :)
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Post by: T0J0 on March 31, 2003, 09:21:26 AM: I like this Conspiracy theory... More fun than the current news
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Post by: vorticon on March 31, 2003, 09:25:08 AM: hmmm if he really is from 2266 im sure he would have something to get him out of the jail cell...

i say its time they start asking him about the future...just as a joke
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Post by: Meatwad on March 31, 2003, 10:34:54 AM: Weekly Wrold News? Now those are great for giving me a laugh, since every single story in there is totally fake!
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Post by: Frogm4n on March 31, 2003, 10:49:20 AM: dosnt fox own that paper as well?
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Post by: Martlet on March 31, 2003, 11:31:26 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Frogm4n
dosnt fox own that paper as well?

Nah, that one's owned by Les Echos.
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Post by: Saintaw on March 31, 2003, 01:21:24 PM: Quote
Originally posted by GScholz
Time to ********! :D

Please stop mentioning that name... my skin crawls everytime one does, thank you :)
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Post by: Samiam on March 31, 2003, 03:28:41 PM: I guess this guy wanted to do it the hard way.

The way I figure it, I spend more on lunch today that the average household made in several months 200 years ago. Why wouldn't a guy from the future simply hit the ATM before his trip, take out the equivalent of $100, then live like a king on it when he got here?

I guess he was afraid that nobody would be able to break a $1,000,000 bill.
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Post by: WldThing on March 31, 2003, 03:41:21 PM: lol that story made my day...
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Post by: Gunthr on March 31, 2003, 03:46:43 PM: Geez, talk about getting greedy... $350 million, and he couldn't stop himself! He must be a hacker...
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Post by: akak on March 31, 2003, 05:05:37 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Nash
From the weekly world news. I like this one also:

"Excited Swiss scientists say they've found the "eject button" inside your head that catapults your soul from your body when you die!"

:)

The Continuing Adventures of Bat Boy are the best articles.

Ack-Ack
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Post by: udet on March 31, 2003, 05:20:18 PM: what would he do with the money in our time? buy lots of hookers? :)
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Post by: Puke on March 31, 2003, 09:32:00 PM: Claim: Man arrested for insider trading attributes his financial success to time travel.

Status: False.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2003]

'TIME-TRAVELER' BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
Wednesday March 19, 2003

By CHAD KULTGEN

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!

Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January 28.

"We don't believe this guy's story -- he's either a lunatic or a pathological liar," says an SEC insider.

"But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks' time he had a portfolio valued at over $350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can't be pure luck.

"The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He's going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers Island until he agrees to give up his sources."

{Click here to read the rest of this article]

Origins: All one need know about this article is that it originated with the Weekly World News, an entertainment tabloid devoted to inventing fantastically fictitious stories while keeping its tongue firmly embedded in its cheek to a depth not measurable by any instrument known to man. Unfortunately, Yahoo!, a primary news source for many people on the Internet, reprints some Weekly World News articles in their TV News section under a heading of "Entertainment News & Gossip," a title that doesn't convey a strong "bogus" warning to readers who don't notice the original source is the Weekly World News (or don't know what the Weekly World News is).

Last updated: 28 March 2003

The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/insider.htm
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Post by: -tronski- on March 31, 2003, 10:19:41 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Soulyss
like your siggy there tronsky, you got good taste in TV shows. :)

Tis a good show..

Trosnky
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Post by: Nash on March 31, 2003, 10:52:32 PM: Ya know...

When I discovered the source was the weekly world news (the only clue that Yahoo news reprinted it from WWN was at the very bottom, saying "The Weekly World News is continuing to follow this story")... I was a bit taken aback.

I thought Yahoo news reprinted stories from legit sources... mainly from the wires. I'd never heard of WWN, and went to check it out (yahoo offered no link) to see if there were any updates to this stock trading story. When I got to the WWN website, it was a tabloid comic book.

So it's like... great. How much other crap is Yahoo reprinting that's from totally bogus sites?... as if it were some kinda joke. I mean, the idea that some guy made a killing off the stock market, but is also nuts in the head and tried to convince the SEC that he's from the future isn't outside the realm of reality. *His* story is bogus, but the story itself doesn't neccessarily have to be.

Gotsta double check every source from them now (time consuming) or better yet, ignore anything from yahoo's little news service.

Ok! That's the end of my rant. Thank you. I'll be here all week.
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Post by: Toad on March 31, 2003, 10:54:38 PM: Yah, Nash.. can't trust Yahoo.

Do what the cognoscenti do... peruse the latest from the GRU.
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Post by: Nash on March 31, 2003, 10:59:17 PM: Oh great... *another* vague source. :)

What's GRU? Did a google search and nothing seemed in context unless the Gainsville Regional Utilities has become the last bastion of truth in cyberspace. :)

he whole thing is making me feeling like a web newbie now....
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Post by: Toad on March 31, 2003, 11:42:00 PM: Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie (GRU), Russia's military-intelligence arm.

You were reading -am- when he was posting the latest views of the war from the Russian prism, right?

Didn't he cite the GRU as one of his sources? Maybe I have mis-remembered.
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Post by: Nash on March 31, 2003, 11:46:29 PM: Ahh... Heh.... That's it. :)

I do look forward to am's... erhm... fiction.

Sorry for making you explain the joke.
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Post by: Martlet on April 01, 2003, 04:13:39 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Nash
Ahh... Heh.... That's it. :)

I do look forward to am's... erhm... fiction.

Sorry for making you explain the joke.

He's just blatantly anti american. Not all of what he posts is fiction, but it seems like he stays up all night looking for every bad thing that happened to the US, so he can post it.

I haven't seen him post any stories of the woman the iraqis shot and threw over the bridge.

Or the tank they parked in the hostpital

or the civilians the made stand around their soldiers.

or the people they shot at while trying to leave Basra

etc etc.