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2004-08-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

BEHOLD! the wonders of the TIME TRAVEL FUND!

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Posted by mojo 2004-08-26 12:06:21 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'll be sure to sign up just as soon as I email my checking account number to the exiled Queen of Nigeria who's been asking for my help lately with the promise of getting a cut of their vast fortune.

Posted by Chris W. 2004-08-26 12:30:04 PM|| 2004-08-26 12:30:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Chris, you too? I've gotten 5 of those just this week. I forward them to Muck4doo. I don't personnally believe it will be possible to travel backwards in time. Forward, maybe but not backward. One would have to travel in time and space backward. It makes my head hurt thinking about it.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2004-08-26 12:48:56 PM|| 2004-08-26 12:48:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Those people from the future - they'll take our jaaaaaaabs!

Posted by South Park Redneck 2004-08-26 12:49:27 PM|| 2004-08-26 12:49:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I wrote them a check, in 2035, backdated to now.

Posted by ed 2004-08-26 1:00:40 PM|| 2004-08-26 1:00:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Are we there yet?...Are we there yet?...Are we there yet?...

Posted by tu3031 2004-08-26 1:03:43 PM|| 2004-08-26 1:03:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Bah. I've had my reservations in at Milliways for years. Only cost a penny, but it should pay for QUITE a meal by the time they call me for my table.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-08-26 1:05:39 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-08-26 1:05:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 This is almost as good as the Lost Nigerian Cosmonaut Email Scam.

Although if time travel works as described in (among other places) the John Titor Hoax then you can't travel back to the same timeline you left with any great confidence.

Buyer beware: dimensional integrity not guaranteed.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-08-26 1:07:11 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-08-26 1:07:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Are Darwin Award recipients elgible?

I'd like to see that sign up list. A mass marketer's dream come true.

Posted by GK 2004-08-26 1:41:52 PM|| 2004-08-26 1:41:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Why can't I think of scams like this? I could be rollin' in dough...

Posted by Fred 2004-08-26 2:45:22 PM|| 2004-08-26 2:45:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 my luck: I'll get a guy in the future who procrastinates....

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-26 3:01:01 PM|| 2004-08-26 3:01:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 ima fale see any humor in this. if you were tell peples 500 years ago that we are now can fly across europe in hours or to america in hours they are wuldve laff! they would laff to if you were tell them they are can hold a conversation with someone thousands miles away to. who in laffing now!

Posted by muck4doo 2004-08-26 3:14:56 PM|| [http://www.meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2004-08-26 3:14:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 This vaguely reminds me of the fund Franklin set up to finance (medical scholarships?) education using his advanced understanding of compound interest. It worked too.

Posted by Shipman 2004-08-26 4:21:11 PM|| 2004-08-26 4:21:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Uh-oh...

Posted by mojo 2004-08-26 4:54:01 PM|| 2004-08-26 4:54:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 As much as I hate scammers I hope this one continues to produce wonderful reads such as this.

O/T SIDE NOTE: If muck is scambaiting nigerians I vote for him to post one of his best baits here.

Posted by 2% 2004-08-26 6:17:05 PM|| 2004-08-26 6:17:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Pay up, or the server gets it.
BTW Robots are fun.

Posted by Shipman119378 2004-08-26 7:33:27 PM|| 2004-08-26 7:33:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Yeah, Mucky will get in on the ground floor of this, become the richest man on the planet, and we'll all be kicking ourselves in the ass that we gave it a pass.

Posted by tu3031 2004-08-26 8:12:30 PM|| 2004-08-26 8:12:30 PM|| Front Page Top

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