Um…OK.
We’ll all hop right on that, I’m sure.
I’m definitely going for it!
I not so sure. During the days of the Cold War, one of my fonder fantasies was that we’d somehow have our Final Nuclear Holocaust, exterminating the entire human species, leaving the world a better place for all other surviving life (if any). For myself, I wished only that I might live long enough to see the process well under way; and perhaps, that I might die in some relatively painless way.
I’d toss the gun away and ask to see the stranger’s time machine. Just like da Vinci.
One of the heads of the Illuminati, for sure.
Don’t forget that Kozmik will only accept as evidence articles that have been published in the New York Times. For some reason. All other media have been coopted by the Illuminati.
“I am a poor Serb.
I have no money.
Banks have money.
I have a gun.
It pays better than shooting some old fart.”
Free Gun = New Career
Weirdest flameout ever. I expected no less from Kozmik.
That’s not a question.
“What the fook is Kozmik smoking?”
Now that’s a question without an answer!
I would switch to decaf.
Let me say that I have missed your presence on the board. I know you find many posters here either obnoxious or difficult to deal with, and I might be one of those, but I really do enjoy reading your posts.
I’m not sure what question hasn’t been answered. You can’t leave me hanging like that! If the question is, would I commit murder at the request of a time traveller, the answer is no. I don’t intend to murder someone in cold blood no matter what assurances are given for the consequences, and there is no fucking way that I want to be known for starting a world war.
If that isn’t the question you are asking, perhaps you can clarify.
I think the question in, uh, question is “Who, exactly, is the shadowy force behind the assassination of Franz Ferdinand?” Because it’s just assumed that there must be one.
In Serbia he is – don’t they consider him a national hero?
Zombie or not:
Not sure what answer you want, but the quoted is not quite what happened. A co-conspirator attempted and failed to blow up the Archduke, wounding others. Princip fled to the cafe. Franz went to go visit the injured, when he serendipitously came past Princip, who was having some coffee or something after failing the initial attempt. You might as well have told him to tell his buddies to screw up the assassination first.
I know who he is! He did that “Take Me Out” song a couple years back. I thought he was dead and must’ve been old when he sang it.
I was minding my own business when this crazy old codger with a cane shows up; he says he’s my distant relative; I didn’t see any resemblance … he said, “someday, a wild-eyed scientist or a kid may show up asking about that Sports Almanac…”
Suddenly the world snaps into focus.
The Caleban
Does anyone really think the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand caused WWI? The prevailing attitude even when I was learning about this in school > 4 decades back was that it was a fight looking for an excuse to happen; if it hadn’t been this, another excuse would have been found before too long that sufficed.
Beat ya to it…by two years! 
Incidentally, I don’t believe I ever saw the Archduke referred to as Franz Ferdinand until after the namesake pop group’s brief moment of popularity. It was always just “Archduke Ferdinand.” Didn’t know he had two names.
I make it a general rule never to kill anyone merely on the advice of someone else.