Re: [OT] Time Travellers' Convention

From: David Cressey <david.cressey_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 19:57:12 GMT
Message-ID: <s49fe.7042$7F4.917_at_newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>


Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

This was already done in the 1960s, at MIT.

If you missed it, go back.

"Kenneth Downs" <knode.wants.this_at_see.sigblock> wrote in message news:ieakk2-9a2.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net...
> A student at MIT is hosting the worlds ONLY time travellers' convention
this
> Saturday.
>
> Naturally there only needs to be one, because of course if you like it you
> can just go back.
>
> They are somewhat afraid of parking issues, because there is only one
> convention, if people like it, they'll tell their friends, and so on and
so
> on, and things will get hairy fast. This suggests that the more
> civic-minded time travellers who have attended the convention already many
> times may have had the courtesy to come back last week and give them an
> idea of what they'd need, but since none have done so, there is some
> suggestion that the convention has already flopped.
>
> If you are thinking of showing up and claiming to be a time traveller, the
> organizers warn they do have some ways to detect fraudulant time
> travellers, though they are being tight-lipped about it.
>
> In the event that the event is snubbed by the world's time travellers,
they
> also have music and games and some talks by Physicists on time travel.
>
> We now return you to your regularly scheduled database theory.
> --
> Kenneth Downs
> Secure Data Software, Inc.
> (Ken)nneth_at_(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)
Received on Sat May 07 2005 - 21:57:12 CEST

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