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'Tourist Guy': Is He or Isn't He?
Wired News ^ | Nov 11 2001 | Jeffrey Benner

Posted on 11/11/2001 3:13:13 AM PST by 2Trievers

Edited on 06/29/2004 7:08:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

After the Sept. 11 attacks, the tourist guy became the subject of dozens of doctored photographs. Inspired by the original picture that put him at the WTC attacks, Web surfers quickly turned him into the Forrest Gump of the Internet, placing him at the scene of major, minor and just plain inane events in history.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: touristguy
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Mystery solved?
1 posted on 11/11/2001 3:13:13 AM PST by 2Trievers
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"Mystery solved?"

I don't think so...If he's 41 now, that made him only three at the time of Kennedy's assasination...and I've seen the pics...Tourist Guy was much older at the time...#8-)

2 posted on 11/11/2001 3:17:46 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: 2Trievers
The only reason he's now a celebrity is from his appearances on FR.
3 posted on 11/11/2001 3:18:09 AM PST by b4its2late
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from his appearances on FR

For sure!!

4 posted on 11/11/2001 3:24:18 AM PST by Norb2569
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To: b4its2late
You got that right!

That aint him anyways.. Tourist Guy always wears a stocking cap.

5 posted on 11/11/2001 3:24:31 AM PST by Delta 21
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To: 2Trievers

6 posted on 11/11/2001 3:25:15 AM PST by b4its2late
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Joe

Maybe the Kennedy assassination didn't occur at the time "THEY" told us it did ... hummmm?

7 posted on 11/11/2001 3:27:14 AM PST by 2Trievers
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My personal fave...


8 posted on 11/11/2001 3:31:49 AM PST by Fintan
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EXCELLENT!
9 posted on 11/11/2001 3:35:02 AM PST by 2Trievers
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To: Fintan
OMG, i love the date stamp!
10 posted on 11/11/2001 3:35:06 AM PST by xsmommy
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Isn't it the BEST! Thanks Fintan
11 posted on 11/11/2001 4:32:37 AM PST by 2Trievers
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This is the best one yet. I love the 07-04-76 in the corner!
12 posted on 11/11/2001 5:01:31 AM PST by samtheman
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i am tempted to print this out, have it framed and hang it in my office!
13 posted on 11/11/2001 5:25:44 AM PST by xsmommy
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Anyone who shows up at that many cataclysms isn't doing it by accident. I think he's CIA deep cover. And look: his MO is always the same. Same clothes. Same pose. Always there. Just "lurking."

Uh huh. How stupid do they think we are?

14 posted on 11/11/2001 5:51:02 AM PST by IronJack
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Same clothes. Same pose.
Maybe he is Hillary's kin?

My favorite:

15 posted on 11/11/2001 6:43:36 AM PST by Hugh Akston
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Great pic Hugh

"I think he's CIA deep cover"

Ah, another "deep throat."

16 posted on 11/11/2001 8:04:00 AM PST by 2Trievers
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To: 2Trievers
Somebody had to go start all this again!
;-)


17 posted on 11/11/2001 1:05:39 PM PST by SerpentDove
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To: 2Trievers

http://www.megaone.com/bmovies/touristguy.html

18 posted on 11/11/2001 1:53:38 PM PST by lowbridge
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How would you like a full color version? :-)


19 posted on 11/11/2001 2:47:23 PM PST by lowbridge
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Marvelous! A sure keeper!
20 posted on 11/11/2001 3:13:24 PM PST by dcwusmc
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