# Here's a thought to ponder,

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [January 7, 2000, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-thought-to-ponder/409 "2000-01-07T04:53:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-thought-to-ponder/409/1 "2000-01-07T04:53:00Z")

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Well all you youth with your hulla-hoops, pac-man video games, and 2 second attention spans (bonus points if you know where thats from) should realize that if the people of the future would have invented “time machines” wouldn’t they have came here?

I mean if you make a time machine, and you zoom back to 1993 (now why would you want to do that!?!) don’t you think people would go tell the rest of the world about you?

=) read my poem and see what happened to me on my wedding =P

[http://www.ernieshouseofwhoopass.com/pictures/getemail.jpg](http://www.ernieshouseofwhoopass.com/pictures/getemail.jpg)

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Mary had a little lamb,  
Her father shot it dead,  
Now she takes it to school with her,  
Between 2 peices of bread

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**Author:** ![hightechburrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f6c823/32.png) [@hightechburrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hightechburrito)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-thought-to-ponder/409/2 "2000-01-07T05:43:00Z")

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“You kids with your loud music, Dan Fogelburg, your Zima, hula hoops and Pac-Man video games, don’t you see, people today have attention spans that can only be mesured in nanoseconds.”-Baseketball

Sorry I didn’t comment, but where do I redeem my points?

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How could I charge full price to the man whose lust for filthy magazines kept me in business through that first shaky year. Oh, by the way, here’s your new issue of “Gigantic Asses.”  
-Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

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**Author:** ![Nekosoft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c2a13f/32.png) [@Nekosoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nekosoft)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-thought-to-ponder/409/3 "2000-01-07T05:49:00Z")

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A first time poster? There _are_ other threads dealing with this subject, and more appropriate forums, perhaps General Questions or Great Debates. Live and learn. Anyway, in redemption, here’s Cecil’s thought on the subject: [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4\_181.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_181.html)

## And mine, who’s to say future dwellers _haven’t_ visited us. Would you go back in time, just to say “I have a time machine”? I’d probably be more subtle about it. It’s also considered… uh… Somebody-or-other’s Paradox. Someone with greater resources of rememberance will be along soon.

Perhaps **I** ’m not fit to comment on Cecil’s columns…