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  • #16
    Quoth PepperElf View Post
    too bad he didn't have a sonic screwdriver...
    Sounds to me like he had one too many.

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    • #17
      Quoth Kereminde View Post
      Oooh, you missed out on several good replies which could have shut him up . . .

      "If magic was real, I would not need to be here today. And neither would you."
      "Magic, like Harry Potter? No, it's usually more complex than that. I'd show you, but I ran out of belladonna."
      "If you are a time traveler, and you are from the future, can you please go back a little further and ask yourself to try a different location? Thanks."
      how about
      "hey I already told you tomorrow, don't come ever come here again"
      Be Nicer To Retail Workers 2K18, also known as: stop being an incredibly shitty human to people just doing their job.

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      • #18
        "I saw the future you were from in my tarot cards, and you were the Hanged Man. ."
        Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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        • #19
          I would think time travelers would be too busy to learn their own language considering they'd have to perfect the dialect of whatever time and place they choose to visit. If they show even the slightest accent they could be killed as a spy or a heretic.
          To right the countless wrongs of our days... We shine this light of true redemption, that this place may become as paradise...Oh, what a wonderful world such would be...

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          • #20
            Quoth firecat88 View Post
            He was probably wearing a bowtie. Or perhaps a fez. Or maybe he had a celery stalk in his pocket. Who knows.
            Bowties are cool.

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            • #21
              Quoth PepperElf View Post
              too bad he didn't have a sonic screwdriver...
              Meh. I like David's better. Matt's is too bulky.

              </end threadjack>

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              • #22
                If you really want to mess with them. "Hey we just had this conversation five minutes from now. I am not going to change my answers!"
                Engaged to the amazing Marmalady. She is my Silver Dragon, shining as bright as the sun. I her Black Dragon (though good honestly), dark as night..fierce and strong.

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                • #23
                  Quoth CaptainThrifty View Post
                  Or a really long multi colored scarf. Single color ones don't count. I don't know of any time travelers with fedoras or fez's.
                  They wear fezzes now. Fezzes are cool.

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                  • #24
                    My Spider sense is a Robinson-one...

                    As long as it isn't Half-An-Oaf.



                    (Malfunctioning time-travel belt... only shifted one side...)
                    Last edited by dalesys; 11-11-2010, 07:08 PM.
                    I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
                    Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
                    Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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                    • #25
                      Two things.

                      First, the dude was a whack job. Pure and simple.

                      Second....
                      Quoth Gateau View Post
                      G - that is kind of contradictory since magic *isn't* real
                      I must disagree. Magic is very real.

                      Now, a lot of the regulars on this board know that I am a magician. I do card tricks and entertain people with laughter and cards professionally. (Well, on Wednesdays, anyways. The rest of the week I get people drunk for a living.) But that is not the kind of magic I am talking about when I say magic is real.

                      But there is magic, and it is real. Don't believe me.

                      Take a walk in the Redwood Forest. Hike the Grand Canyon. Watch the sun set over the Pacific or rise over the Atlantic. Go bicycling in New York City (if you dare). Walk through the dunes in Cape Cod. Fall in love, from afar, or up close and personal. See a great movie. Go on a long road trip. Go sailing. Do something crazy with your friends. Bike through campus at Mach 2, dodging pedestrians, skateboarders, and other bicyclists. Eat a great meal. Cook a great meal. Make love to someone for the first time. Make love to someone for the best time. Give a performance that is beyond your normal talents.

                      Do these things. Do other things. Do wondrous things. Anything that makes you feel great joy that goes beyond all reason.

                      Do that, and THEN come and tell me there's no such thing as magic.

                      Magic exists. Magic is real. Magic is out there for you, if you'll open yourself up to it.

                      I believe in magic. And I always will.

                      Quoth MoonCat View Post
                      I haz Girl Scout cookies. Here, you can haz some too! Peanut butter, lemon sandwich cookies or dulce de leche...mmmmm...
                      What, no Thin Mints?

                      "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
                      Still A Customer."

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                      • #26
                        Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke

                        Any sufficiently rigorously defined magic is indistinguishable from technology. - Larry Niven

                        Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology. - Terry Pratchett

                        Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. - Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law
                        "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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                        • #27
                          As a Wiccan, I can definately state that I believe in magick.

                          But magic is as much something you do as something you try. In my case, it seems I make my magic when I'm writing a book.

                          Now I just knew the secret for sales . . .
                          Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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                          • #28
                            Quoth Kristev View Post
                            As a Wiccan, I can definately state that I believe in magick.

                            But magic is as much something you do as something you try. In my case, it seems I make my magic when I'm writing a book.

                            Now I just knew the secret for sales . . .
                            I live in a city where the local witch covens saved a 150-year-old magnolia tree downtown from a developer's chainsaw by dancing around it and casting spells on it. And where a large group of people gathered in front of city hall and the county courthouse in an attempt to open an interdimensional portal back in October. And where -- I swear i am not making this up -- a local video rental store once experienced a supposed plague of faeries.

                            So yeah... you're not alone in believing in magick.

                            In fact, I once had an obnoxious customer attempt to put a curse on me because the bookstore I worked in at the time did not have a certain book in stock. I got him to go away by cursing him in turn with an old Greek curse that, as I understand it, takes any curse put on you and throws it back at the person who cast it on you.

                            ...I hope he had fun with whatever he'd had in mind for me.
                            Drive it like it's a county car.

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                            • #29
                              this guy came back. this time around i asked him a few questions.

                              apparently he is not a time traveler but he is in constant contact with them either by "meeting them on the bus" or by talking to them on his "phone."
                              they taught him the time traveler/wizard language which he seems to impulsively use and then translates himself for other people. i think maybe they are training him?

                              anyway.. he was taking to me in his "language" and bought about 12 packs of assorted american spirits. asking for specific packs on the rack behind me instead of the ones i grabbed from the overhead. one at a time..
                              i don't think i'll warn the new guy about him tomorrow ehehe

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                              • #30
                                Quoth hauntedheadnc View Post
                                a local video rental store once experienced a supposed plague of faeries.
                                Sounds interesting - pray tell!
                                Quoth hauntedheadnc View Post
                                I got him to go away by cursing him in turn with an old Greek curse that, as I understand it, takes any curse put on you and throws it back at the person who cast it on you.
                                Hmmm... this might come handy in the future...
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