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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: David_Dovey on 06 Apr 2011, 16:14
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Today's comic from qwantz (http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1935) goes like this:
(http://www.qwantz.com/comics/comic2-1946.png)
What would you leave in the ground to awe and/or fuck with people? Is there some little piece of knowledge or art that you'd like to make sure people in the future don't forget? Something about the time we are living in right now that is quite impressive? Alternately, something that'd be guaranteed to confuse the shit out of future people?
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This, perhaps. (http://xkcd.com/593/)
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a bong
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Somewhat related, a friend of mine scandalized her anthropology professor after a lecture on the religious and cultural significance of fertility figurines with the wide hips and large breasts, etc. "Oh, it's obviously caveman porn."
For the OP question, if there were a way of making it survive hundreds or thousands of years, clearly the cultural artifact that would screw with future anthropologists the most would be reels and reels of reality TV.
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Shopping channel exercise equipment and shoe horns.
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Coat a human skeleton in titanium. Give it additional titanium claws.
Using advanced taxidermy techniques, create vast skeleton armies of human/animal hybrids. Bury as per ancient battleground conventions.
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Hentai.
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The Twitter
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i would create as much evidence as possible for an all powerful church that worships platypuses
people would spend decades trying to figure out why we thought they were so great. And they'd never figure it out! future suckers
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people would spend decades trying to figure out why we thought they were so great.
Dude, I think it'd take them all of five minutes. Fuckers are poisonous amphibious egg-laying electricity-sensing mammals. Beats the hell out of any big man in the sky. Especially seeing as how they'd almost certainly be extinct by then due to water pollution. Future dudes would be all like "No way!" and "For real?" and be all writing peer-reviewed scientific papers with titles like "Holy shit, check out this freaky-deeky shit, guys!"
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"freeky-deeky" is future-speak for "awesome" or "made-up"
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My submisions to the timecapsule.
1) Airline food with appropriate hazmet warnings.
2) Duct tape
3) A bicycle
4) A copy of the bible in a mock up binding titled Grimm's Fairie Tales Vol. 2
5) Some digital deathcore albums marked Easy Listening
6) The still beating heart of Glenn Beck
7) An Edward Hopper painting
8) A recipie for pizza
9) A Rubik's Cube
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Christ, didn't he listen to anything besides Silkworm?
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the time cube
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My iPod. I like the idea of people having all this music in the future, especially the more obscure stuff which will probably be long forgotten. I'd be curious to see how it is regarded in say, one hundred years. Especially out of context.
People will finally get Caroliner.
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A print out of this thread.
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1) Airline food with appropriate hazmet warnings.
(http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/images/seinfeld1.jpg)
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I conceed that I don't get the Jerry Seinfeld reference.
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It's not so much a reference to a particular Jerry Seinfeld bit as it is a running joke of long standing on this forum (and elsewhere online, presumably) about the staleness of Seinfeld-esque observational humour such as "What's the deal with airline food?"
Incidentally, I was watching an episode of Seinfeld the other day (because let's be honest, it's still one of the funniest shows ever made) and there was a scene in which Jerry was doing a standup show and decided to take a dive, deliberately bombing on stage. One of the first jokes of the set was about airline food.
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probably just an apology letter on behalf of our generation for fucking everything up for everyone
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I was going to suggest just a polaroid of somebody giving them the finger, but I guess that'd probably be redundant.
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Just dig like, hundreds of pits. Fill some of them with nuclear waste and neutron bombs, fill some with gold and jewels. It's like real-life minesweeper.
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Guys if you really want to fuck with the future then everything you need is just a Pokemon name and a Google image search away.
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Maybe the recipe for a scone.
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my giant, petrified penis
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on that note, a vibrator
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my giant, petrified penis
removed before or after your death?
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I'm still deciding.