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Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day
Tarantio
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Here's the original thread, over at the Dresden Codak Forums:
http://forums.koalawallop.com/viewtopic.php?t=1719
The basic idea is for people to dress up and act like time travelers in public places, on December 8th.
The originator's three main suggestions are to pretend to be from a Utopian Future, a Distopian Future, or the past.
I don't know about any of you, but this is the best idea I've heard in years. Finally, a reason to run up to strangers and ask "What year is it?"
For really elaborate ideas, one would need accomplices. A set of identical twins would be ideal (O! the possibilities!) but any two groups asking for information about each other would do, as well; say, a pack of five people in lab coats with nets and things that look like stun batons, searching for three people all in white with shaved heads and barcode tatoos.
http://forums.koalawallop.com/viewtopic.php?t=1719
The basic idea is for people to dress up and act like time travelers in public places, on December 8th.
The originator's three main suggestions are to pretend to be from a Utopian Future, a Distopian Future, or the past.
I don't know about any of you, but this is the best idea I've heard in years. Finally, a reason to run up to strangers and ask "What year is it?"
For really elaborate ideas, one would need accomplices. A set of identical twins would be ideal (O! the possibilities!) but any two groups asking for information about each other would do, as well; say, a pack of five people in lab coats with nets and things that look like stun batons, searching for three people all in white with shaved heads and barcode tatoos.
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They RPed that they were an away team that got sucked through a temporal anomaly to Elizabethan England.
I wasn't there to see it, but they apparently did a very good job, and became something of a legend among the frequent Faire-folk.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
What?
But you'd be the same age.
He can time travel, anything is possible.
It reminds me of groups like Improv Everywhere and Prangstgrup, with a little Talk Like a Pirate Day thrown in.
Idea.
Say you're from the Great Race of Yith.
Anyways, I can see a few people jumping out of their skin at that.
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the guy who is a huge part of improv everywhere was my teacher when I took an improv class. very very cool guy, he was so excited about the mp3 day thing.
The only problem is what to do when they try to call the "this time you" on his/her cell phone. So I'm going to stow this one away until I find someone that sounds like me, then I'm going to spring it on the most cynical friend I know.
of course i walk around and tell people to come with me if they want to live on a regular basis anyway
I kind of wanna do this one in front of a crucifix.
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Warlord Gor'Zag was a good man. You shut your dirty mouth.
The one twin could be the real-time version, and the other could be the version from 15 minutes into the future. Or one day, or 30 seconds.
Like, remember the Calvin and Hobbes storyline where he builds a time machine to go forward in time to collect the assignment from his future self? Kinda like that.
Or it could be something like the time loop starbucks that Improv Everywhere did- one guy goes running through a department store, hiding behind thing and trying to look inconspicuous, and as soon as he gets through the other door, the second twin comes in through the first door asking people if they've seen him come through here. Ad infititum.
That would probably just get you slapped.
2) Dystopian Future - This one offers a little more flexibility. It can be any kind of future from Terminator to Freejack. The important thing to remember is dress like a crazy person with armor. Black spray painted football pads, high tech visors, torn up trenchcoats and maybe even some dirt here or there. Remember, dystopian future travelers are very startled that they've gone back in time. Some starters:
- If you go the "prisoner who's escaped the future" try shaving your head and putting a barcode on the back of your neck. Then stagger around and stare at the sky, as if you've never seen it before.
- Walk up to random people and say "WHAT YEAR IS THIS?" and when they tell you, get quiet and then say "Then there's still time!" and run off.
- Stand in front of a statue (any statue, really), fall to your knees, and yell "NOOOOOOOOO"
- Stare at newspaper headlines and look astonished.
- Take some trinket with you (it can be anything really), hand it to some stranger, along with a phone number and say "In thirty years dial this number. You'll know what to do after that." Then slip away.
Someone in America is dying of a gunshot wound right now.
Let's keep things in perspective here.
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Three very significant things happened on or around Dec. 8th.
Do the flash of light in an alleyway thing, then run out and frantically ask the nearest passerby if some famous historical event that everyone knows about happened. When they confirm that it did, shout an obscenity, run back into the alley, and flash the light again.
Now, which do I pick: Dystopian future, utipian future, or Victorian-style time traveller? I'm leaning towards the thrid... I could get a few friends and we could run around with top-hats and monocles and corsets (for the ladyfolk) and so on.. acting astounded and scared... he he! What fun!
Ah, but I'm not sure...
Also, we MUST keep this under wraps. Tell your friends, but hush-hush with family and on other parts of the internets...
He ordered the nerve stapling of the Silicide crew of the Imperial scout ship "Eternal Vigilance"! They weren't mutineers! The only wanted what they were promised...daily rations of manganese and iridium and a chance to practice their lithothiestic faith in peace.
Plus, have you forgotten that that he virus bombed 4 worlds in the Rylek system? Those worlds won't be liveable for another 2000 Standard Galactic Cycles! And one was a nursery world....2 billion young, some not even released from the Placental Combine, snuffed out at the whim of a tyrant.
How any sentient being could support that two-faced, 3-headed madman is beyond comprehension. And yet you call him a man.
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"What year is it?!!? IS JOHN LENNON STILL ALIVE!??!"
When they tell you the answer drop to your knees shouting,
"Noooo! I've missed it! It's too late! I can't stop him now..."
Then maybe go on to say something like... John Lennon's death was a futuristic plot stop the development of the world. With Lennon alive Earth would have eventually progressed to a scientifically and medically progressive, peaceful Eden. With Lennon dead, the world would slowly decline, leading to the events around 2003 which would inexorably lead to the apocalypse.