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Posted: 25-02-2013 21:04 Post subject: Time Machine inventor..just disappears...

Well this is interesting...apologies if someone has already posted it.

Man who claims he's invented a time machine...just disappears.

Posted: 25-02-2013 22:31 Post subject:

Ah! Victoria, Australia not '000' was the Emergency Services number during the reign of Queen Victoria....

Psychout

Posted: 23-08-2013 01:43 Post subject:

Browsing Borges' Book of Fantasy, I came across Max Beerbohm's 1916 story of Enoch Soames. It is a reworking of the Faust legend in which a very minor writer of the 1890s sells his soul to the Devil for a glimpse at the catalogue of the British Museum a century later, when he hopes to be celebrated as a genius.

I wondered, as I read this engrossing and playful fiction, if anyone had been in the Reading Room on that day in June 1997 and was gratified to see in the Wikipedia entry on the story that the magician Teller had written an article in which the fictitious Soames is said to have appeared at the appointed date and hour:

From Wkipedia on Enoch Soames

An article written by Teller, "A Memory of the Nineteen-Nineties" ("Being a faithful account of the events of the designated day, when the man who had disappeared was expected briefly to return"),[2] was published in the November 1997 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. The piece claims to describe actual events, witnessed by Teller and a small group of other people; fans of Beerbohm's story, who had come to the Reading Room on the date specified, in time for Soames' afternoon "visit". According to this account, at 2:10 PM, on the 3rd of June 1997, a person meeting Soames description mysteriously appeared, and began searching through the catalogues and various biographical dictionaries. A few dozen minutes later, he slipped out of sight of the watching crowd, and disappeared among the stacks.

In an October 2012 Esquire magazine article, writer Chris Jones implied that Teller himself had staged this event, although the magician "didn't confess his role. He never has."

Wikipedia quote ends.

Borgesian indeed! Smile

Posted: 16-09-2013 15:17 Post subject:

Mr Carlssin the famous time machine inventor is probably whizzing backwards and forwards through time at this very moment littering the historyscape with Our of Place Artifacts while giggling merrily to himself.

I know I would.

Tupperware jar, in Pompei
complicated cog and wheel thing that tells the time off the cost of Greece.
Models of figher planes and heliopters in aincient indian burial sites.
A microwave in the Kings chamber at Giza.

What fun

Posted: 17-09-2013 00:06 Post subject:

He'll show up when they dredge the canal. Laughing