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From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 18 May 2025 08:53:12 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

>On 5/17/2025 6:21 PM, Justisaur wrote:
>> On 5/17/2025 1:47 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>> On 5/17/2025 11:15 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 17 May 2025 10:28:12 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
>>>> <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 5/17/2025 8:02 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 17 May 2025 08:55:23 -0400, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, 16 May 2025 18:24:33 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Get a time machine. :P
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hot Tub, Phone Booth or DeLorean?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tunnel. ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>> Drive thru the Tunnel in your Hot Tub equipped DeLorean while 
>>>>> chanting a
>>>>> magic spell on the phone.
>>>>
>>>> What, no fancy chair with whirly-gig spinning contraption mounted on
>>>> the back? Have you no respect for the classics, sir?
>>>>
>>>> I'd at least DEMAND an appearance from the WABAC, given this is a
>>>> computer-related newsgroup.
>>>>
>>> Components of the WABAC were used in merging the Hot Tub to the 
>>> DeLorean so we can go back to rescue the guy on the spinning whirligig.
>>>
>>> That better?  :P
>>>
>> 
>> What about the good old fashioned severe blow to the head?  Although 
>> that was 4 years after the whirly-gig book.
>> 
>Not reliable and the lack of destination control makes it unfeasible 
>even on the extremely rare occasions it works at all.

It could be worse; you could get lost in time and all you have is a
hologram with a noisy cell-phone gadget* to keep you company.

An eternity in the company of Dean Stockwell... what a terrifying
thought.









* admittedly, at the time, I thought the hand-held gadget was pretty
cool. I admit that sometimes when I get frustrated with my cellphone I
give it a whack and replicate the squawking sound it made ;-)