Greatest hoax of all time?

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  • Abby Normal
    Commissioner
    • Jun 2010
    • 11939

    #121
    Descartes favorite toast-I drink, therefor I am.
    "Is all that we see or seem
    but a dream within a dream?"

    -Edgar Allan Poe


    "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
    quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

    -Frederick G. Abberline

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    • Sam Flynn
      Casebook Supporter
      • Feb 2008
      • 13333

      #122
      Originally posted by Robert View Post
      A bar slides under Albert Einstein....
      Subtle, and very clever... at least, from my point of view.
      Kind regards, Sam Flynn

      "Suche Nullen" (Nietzsche, Götzendämmerung, 1888)

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      • Abby Normal
        Commissioner
        • Jun 2010
        • 11939

        #123
        Originally posted by Sam Flynn View Post
        Subtle, and very clever... at least, from my point of view.
        I don't get it? relativity? simultainity? Lorentz contraction?
        "Is all that we see or seem
        but a dream within a dream?"

        -Edgar Allan Poe


        "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
        quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

        -Frederick G. Abberline

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        • Robert
          Commissioner
          • Feb 2008
          • 5163

          #124
          Relativity.

          Fitzgerald asked why he hadn't been mentioned in the previous post but was told that if he had been, it wouldn't be a contraction.

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          • Abby Normal
            Commissioner
            • Jun 2010
            • 11939

            #125
            Originally posted by Robert View Post
            Relativity.

            Fitzgerald asked why he hadn't been mentioned in the previous post but was told that if he had been, it wouldn't be a contraction.
            got it!
            "Is all that we see or seem
            but a dream within a dream?"

            -Edgar Allan Poe


            "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
            quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

            -Frederick G. Abberline

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            • Abby Normal
              Commissioner
              • Jun 2010
              • 11939

              #126
              Bartender says whatll ya have? A Tachyon walks into the bar.
              "Is all that we see or seem
              but a dream within a dream?"

              -Edgar Allan Poe


              "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
              quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

              -Frederick G. Abberline

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              • Sam Flynn
                Casebook Supporter
                • Feb 2008
                • 13333

                #127
                Originally posted by Abby Normal View Post
                I don't get it? relativity? simultainity? Lorentz contraction?
                Relativity. Einstein goes to the bar, or the bar goes to Einstein... depending on your frame of reference.
                Kind regards, Sam Flynn

                "Suche Nullen" (Nietzsche, Götzendämmerung, 1888)

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                • Abby Normal
                  Commissioner
                  • Jun 2010
                  • 11939

                  #128
                  Originally posted by Sam Flynn View Post
                  Relativity. Einstein goes to the bar, or the bar goes to Einstein... depending on your frame of reference.
                  yup got it
                  "Is all that we see or seem
                  but a dream within a dream?"

                  -Edgar Allan Poe


                  "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
                  quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

                  -Frederick G. Abberline

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                  • Robert
                    Commissioner
                    • Feb 2008
                    • 5163

                    #129
                    A pair of twins walk into a bar and each asks for a pie. The first twin has no problems, but the second twin goes off at tremendous speed in a rocket. When he returns, he finds his pie on sale at the Co-op.

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                    • Steadmund Brand
                      Sergeant
                      • Jul 2010
                      • 534

                      #130
                      I love the jokes.. but to get back on topic.. I was always a fan of the Berners Street Hoax...almost makes me think of something out of The Magic Christian (a book/movie all about great hoaxes!!)

                      Steadmund Brand
                      "The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago."- Lenny Bruce

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                      • Abby Normal
                        Commissioner
                        • Jun 2010
                        • 11939

                        #131
                        Originally posted by Steadmund Brand View Post
                        I love the jokes.. but to get back on topic.. I was always a fan of the Berners Street Hoax...almost makes me think of something out of The Magic Christian (a book/movie all about great hoaxes!!)

                        Steadmund Brand
                        whats the berners street hoax?
                        "Is all that we see or seem
                        but a dream within a dream?"

                        -Edgar Allan Poe


                        "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
                        quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

                        -Frederick G. Abberline

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                        • Steadmund Brand
                          Sergeant
                          • Jul 2010
                          • 534

                          #132
                          In 1809 Theodore Hook bet a friend that within one week he could make any house in London the most famous and talked about place in the city.. he picked 54 Berners Street.. then he wrote thousands of letters ordering items and requesting service and what not for November 27th... then starting at 5 am (first was one of several chimney sweeps) the people started showing up... in droves.. everything from gardeners to piano movers to fish mongers , so many that every office in town had to be sent to Berners Street and the roads were jammed for several blocks.. all for a laugh

                          Steadmund Brand
                          "The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago."- Lenny Bruce

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                          • Abby Normal
                            Commissioner
                            • Jun 2010
                            • 11939

                            #133
                            Originally posted by Steadmund Brand View Post
                            In 1809 Theodore Hook bet a friend that within one week he could make any house in London the most famous and talked about place in the city.. he picked 54 Berners Street.. then he wrote thousands of letters ordering items and requesting service and what not for November 27th... then starting at 5 am (first was one of several chimney sweeps) the people started showing up... in droves.. everything from gardeners to piano movers to fish mongers , so many that every office in town had to be sent to Berners Street and the roads were jammed for several blocks.. all for a laugh

                            Steadmund Brand
                            thanks. a little more than ordering a pizza to someones house. lol
                            "Is all that we see or seem
                            but a dream within a dream?"

                            -Edgar Allan Poe


                            "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
                            quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

                            -Frederick G. Abberline

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                            • GUT
                              Commissioner
                              • Jan 2014
                              • 7841

                              #134
                              Originally posted by Steadmund Brand View Post
                              In 1809 Theodore Hook bet a friend that within one week he could make any house in London the most famous and talked about place in the city.. he picked 54 Berners Street.. then he wrote thousands of letters ordering items and requesting service and what not for November 27th... then starting at 5 am (first was one of several chimney sweeps) the people started showing up... in droves.. everything from gardeners to piano movers to fish mongers , so many that every office in town had to be sent to Berners Street and the roads were jammed for several blocks.. all for a laugh

                              Steadmund Brand
                              Must have cost him a fortune.
                              G U T

                              There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.

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                              • Herlock Sholmes
                                Commissioner
                                • May 2017
                                • 22329

                                #135
                                It’s a wonder Beadle didn’t emulate that one
                                Regards

                                Herlock Sholmes

                                ”I think that Herlock is a genius.” Trevor Marriott

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