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Subject: Those Crazy Americans!!!!
OK, just to round out my series on insanity in the English Speaking world, it is only fair if I pick on American's also.
Alongside recent weight-loss and body-part-growth mass e-mails have been messages of Robert Todino, 22, of Woburn, Mass., who uses the spam (100 million messages so far) to locate time-travel hardware to buy because of his need to revisit his childhood, during which he believes a woman drugged him and implanted a device to give her followers the ability to monitor his every move. According to an August Wired magazine story, Todino has earnestly been seeking an "Acme 5X24 series time transducing capacitor with built-in temporal displacement" and an "AMD Dimensional Warp Generator module containing the GRC79 induction motor," among other gadgets, but that "the conspiracy" has subverted his attempts to acquire them.
I would pick on England and the UK also, but I don't think I need to even comment on how crazy they are. ;D
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Sounds nutty, but hey....'ya never know!
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I swear I got one of those emails awhile back! I wish I would've saved it. I was wondering what the heck this person was talking about. Weirdo. ::)
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I swear I got one of those emails awhile back! I wish I would've saved it. I was wondering what the heck this person was talking about. Weirdo. ::)
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I would have been afraid if I got that e-mail... *shivers*
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I would pick on England and the UK also, but I don't think I need to even comment on how crazy they are. ;D
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Ha ha! Go on give it a go. :D
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Does he need a Flux Capacitor? I have one of those.
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Does he need a Flux Capacitor? I have one of those.
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LOL!!!!!
There is an electronics shop in Van Nuys California, and they have been there like forever. THis is no Radio SHack, but like wat RS was 20 years ago, they sold actual supplies, like resisters, soldering irons, etc.
Back when BTTF was made, they took a LARGE capacitor, and soldered a bunch of flux to it, and placed it on a board near the entrance, saying they had "Flux Capacitors" for sale! When I was last there late last year, they STILL had it, and a lot of the time had to explain the joke.
Subject: Re: Those Crazy Americans!!!!
Hey, Mr.80's here's another one for the "TCA-Files". I found it in the July/Aug 2002 issue of "Airliners" magazine in our avionics lab:
ANOTHER LIFELESS CUSTOMER
America West and airport authorities were trying to determine whether an 80-year-old man died on a flight from Phoenix, or whether he was actually dead before he boarded. Cabin crew members stated that James Walsh, seated with his son and daughter-in-law, looked "kind of stiff" and didn't make a move during the flight. When it was observed that the gentleman's fingertips were turning purple, the daughter-in-law said he was sedated and just sleeping.
The younger Walsh was met at Des Moines by his sister, who happened to be a registered nurse and claimed that her dad was indeed deceased, an observation later confirmed at a local hospital. Although no one claims to have compared airfreight rates with passenger tariffs, there is an Iowas law prohibiting transport of a body between states without a burial-transit permit. However, the Phoenix and Des Moines police departments both declined to investigate further.
:P :P :P :P :P
Here's a site you can pull volumes of "Those Crazy ..." from:
http://www.ananova.com/
Check out the "quirky stories" sections. :)
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Hey, Mr.80's here's another one for the "TCA-Files". I found it in the July/Aug 2002 issue of "Airliners" magazine in our avionics lab:
ANOTHER LIFELESS CUSTOMER
America West and airport authorities were trying to determine whether an 80-year-old man died on a flight from Phoenix, or whether he was actually dead before he boarded.
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I remember when that happened! I think the final outcome was that they knew he was dead, they just wanted to save money getting him home.
It seems that while passengers can get all kinds of discounts for flying, there are no discounts for cargo on planes, and a dead body is considered cargo. When their father died on vacation, they used the return ticket to take him home.
I think they were charged with a minor crime, something like not notifying state officials of a death, something silly like that. It seems that (at least then) there was no crime if you took a dead body on a plane as a passenger, pretending that the body was really alive.
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LOL!!!!!
There is an electronics shop in Van Nuys California, and they have been there like forever. THis is no Radio SHack, but like wat RS was 20 years ago, they sold actual supplies, like resisters, soldering irons, etc.
Back when BTTF was made, they took a LARGE capacitor, and soldered a bunch of flux to it, and placed it on a board near the entrance, saying they had "Flux Capacitors" for sale! When I was last there late last year, they STILL had it, and a lot of the time had to explain the joke.
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lol :)