[Vigilanteman]

Back in the 1970s when I was a college freshman home for winter break, some friends and I piled into a car and drove straight through to New York City to play test some simulation games (the forerunner of X-Box and all that stuff). We were in a large room with mostly locals doing the same thing and they were astounded to discover we had driven in from Fargo, North Dakota.

These were some of the brightest young adults in New York. Many had never been outside of a 5 or 10 block radius of where they lived. One guy even bragged that he'd been all the way west to Buffalo.

We quickly discovered we had a gold mine of gullibility and started spinning tales about how we had to take the railroad to Minneapolis to rent a car for the rest of the trip. As they started eating things up, it escalated to stories about me no longer being able to earn decent summer money as an Indian scout because the Sioux weren't uprising anymore. Another guy in our group lamented that he'd lost his job driving stage now that the railroad had come through, but we were looking forward to a planned highway connection to Minneapolis-St.Paul so we wouldn't be stuck with the railroad schedule from now on.

Maybe one of Bloomberg's friends was in the room at the time . . .

[defconw]

Is there little wonder we are doomed?

[buffyt]

HA HA HA GOOD ONE!~

[Revelation 911]

but we were looking forward to a planned highway connection to Minneapolis-St.Paul so we wouldn't be stuck with the railroad schedule from now on.

wait - you're getting a highway?

nice

[Alex Murphy]

Back in the 1970s when I was a college freshman home for winter break, some friends and I piled into a car and drove straight through to New York City to play test some simulation games (the forerunner of X-Box and all that stuff). We were in a large room with mostly locals doing the same thing and they were astounded to discover we had driven in from Fargo, North Dakota.

These were some of the brightest young adults in New York. Many had never been outside of a 5 or 10 block radius of where they lived. One guy even bragged that he'd been all the way west to Buffalo.

We quickly discovered we had a gold mine of gullibility and started spinning tales about how we had to take the railroad to Minneapolis to rent a car for the rest of the trip. As they started eating things up, it escalated to stories about me no longer being able to earn decent summer money as an Indian scout because the Sioux weren't uprising anymore. Another guy in our group lamented that he'd lost his job driving stage now that the railroad had come through, but we were looking forward to a planned highway connection to Minneapolis-St.Paul so we wouldn't be stuck with the railroad schedule from now on.

ROTFL