# One weird e-mail **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 24, 2005, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031 "2005-03-24T13:39:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/1 "2005-03-24T13:39:13Z")
I received this e-mail today. Hello (xxxxx) I’m looking for a good trans-universal transportation unit. Do you have the McCoy self-generating G series watch or similar newer models available? I also need other items you may or may not have available. Please send a (seperate) email to me at : (xxxxxxxxxxx) if available and let me know your terms of doing business. Thank you XXXX Somehow, I don’t think he’s talking about a Rolex! ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/2 "2005-03-24T13:42:03Z")
They do trans-universal transportation units as small as watches these days? ---
**Author:** ![Zulema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/db5fbb/32.png) [@Zulema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulema)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/3 "2005-03-24T13:45:26Z")
Write back that you have one you might be willing to sell. Ask if he has a picture so you can know you’re both talking about the same thing. Make up some goofy named “other item” like an LCD Portable Interspace Marquee Advertising Board. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/4 "2005-03-24T13:48:38Z")
> [@Ice Wolf](#): > > They do trans-universal transportation units as small as watches these days? Obviously you haven’t been trans-universal transportation unit comparison shopping lately. Portable is the rage, and really pretty essential. It always sucked to have a stationary trans-universal transportation unit where you’d fire it up, transport, and end up on a parallel earth without trans-universal transportation units of any kind. Then you’d have to build one yourself, which inevitably led to breaking into high security government facilities of one kind or another for the right parts. Work, work, work… Yeah, the watch-based models will cost you an arm and a leg. Then again, so can some of the cheaper generic brands flooding the market. Transport through and not all your limbs make it. The horror stories I’ve heard about incomplete jumps via cheap trans-universal transportation units! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/5 "2005-03-24T14:05:46Z")
Ahh, those G-series POS watches are just F-229’s with Swatch bands on them; they’re trying to appeal to a younger demographic. You’re better off with an E-168; it’ll have a few miles on it, but the stabilizers are guaranteed for life, and you won’t end up stranded someplace where they use bunnies for money. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/6 "2005-03-24T14:07:27Z")
Offer to swap em for an Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/7 "2005-03-24T14:08:09Z")
I have a Self-generating G-Series watch but it’s not the real McCoy. ---
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/8 "2005-03-24T14:13:08Z")
Good ideas, all! Especially the PU-36. I did one better. I replied, telling him that I do not carry such items, nor do I know specifically what he is asking for. I directed him to the SDMB, where there is certainly someone who could fill his request, specifically in the General Questions forum. I hope I have not violated some rule here by doing this! Let’s see if he takes the bait. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/9 "2005-03-24T14:15:15Z")
Does the G-Series have the illuminated dial? My older F-Series did. That’s the one that they displayed in Ned’s Emporium of Unique Crap, in the little case filled with blue water to demonstrate it’s waterproof qualities. My dog ate it, and unfortunately then must have triggered the activation button. God only knows where he is now. ---
**Author:** ![MrFantsyPants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MrFantsyPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFantsyPants)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/10 "2005-03-24T14:17:04Z")
Here’s one I got a little while ago. It is hard to read, but worth the effort… > [@Gary Gary](#): > > a new card that can be made from patern chips and by reading the perimitors > from the serial port R232 port has volts so relays and arial and remot > control. > some new idears from card connected two r232 port can add gym stepper with paper bar graph vertal on screen climing steps > exersice machines have buttons under seat left right turn signals on off signals and 100 k pots also can be used in handle grips and turns into rpm motor bike or gear change just like real bikes or just speed sencore with vertual on screen around olimpic track one or two players same with tred mills or in the mountains jogging can use road rules with software set up for truck tram boat plan helecopter and so on with new idears can also add speed sencor so calories control and fittness diagnos print out with card can monitor heart temp pulse oxygen in blood with software two suit. > passed it out in emails may get biult that way im broke thatts why many computers and cards will be biult and a medical card from patern chips traped in time for so long there will be great idears > the port reads 5000 plus per second answers to alot > print this out and take to computer repair company or phone fax them they should be able two work out how to biuld from this information > pass this on to others > sencors probs relays robotics 100k pots so on > idears= hospital eqimant; dna at home with software simple ; medical server home medical eqimant for ambulance or doctor; chess and board games; giutar piano pc operated music; simulators for plane helecopter and tractors and so on; tune up ; bar codes; pc with split screens say 6 monitors for skill labor projects like heart monitor in side punching bags arial metal detector; hearing and speech and brail, heart and brain monitor blood scan and type and so on tread mills speed sencors simple and relayed over inter net or saterlite for racing each other or vertual movmants the list goes on all idears send two one email address heart of all nations then they send back out to 4 corners of world in catergory to siut idear so many thats why send out to all there is new sencores probs so on also to come school and home science projects sencore kit a new world of science and medical eqipmant biulding in the wright direction > card will be placed in plastic box called the g box five sencor of man and every one will want a card is start webmaster please pass on > new tech give the biulder a few days to think over is alot and new > read the perimitors from the serial port R232 ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/12 "2017-07-16T18:49:17Z")
> [@ud6s8ohgv75c67g9j0im](#): > > What the fuck?! That is seriously one fucked up person who sent this, it is very strange indeed! > > The only interesting/weird mail that > I have ever read or seen is the blatantly obvious spammers and the like, who automatically get deleted. You’re replying to a 12 year old thread **ud6s8ohgv75c67g9j0im**. Do you mind if we call you Bruce, so as not to get confused? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/14 "2017-07-16T19:17:56Z")
Hey, give poor **ud6s** a break, here! Everyone knows the timeline-insertion precision of those old G-series pieces of crap was wonky. He probably thought he was arriving in 2005. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/15 "2017-07-17T01:52:48Z")
And apparently it’s returned to its time-space continuum. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/16 "2017-07-17T02:12:35Z")
> [@susan](#): > > And apparently it’s returned to its time-space continuum. Either that, or to the cornfield. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/17 "2017-07-17T02:30:29Z")
I could almost believe some sort of rift in time. The two threads that I noticed “Bruce” posting in were both weird in an unusual way. A good weird. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/18 "2017-07-17T22:57:46Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > You’re replying to a 12 year old thread **ud6s8ohgv75c67g9j0im**. > > Do you mind if we call you Bruce, so as not to get confused? How do you know for sure that he didn’t just now go back in time to 2005 and create the thread a few minutes ago? If his watch was working, it would be no trouble at all… ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/19 "2017-07-18T06:25:29Z")
> [@MrFantsyPants](#): > > Here’s one I got a little while ago. It is hard to read, but worth the effort… It reads as though it’s a 7 year old trying to invent the fitbit, using 1980s computer parts ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/20 "2017-07-19T13:01:53Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > It reads as though it’s a 7 year old trying to invent the fitbit, using 1980s computer parts Could be done. You’d just have to have it in a wagon trundling behind you. And another for the battery. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-weird-e-mail/296031/21 "2017-07-19T14:26:34Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > You’re better off with an E-168; it’ll have a few miles on it, but the stabilizers are guaranteed for life, and you won’t end up stranded someplace where they use bunnies for money. Okay, I read this back in Ought-Five, and have spent the last twelve years saving up. Have thousands of bunnies, can I get the coordinates for Bunny Money World?