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Can someone change this to Air Force One? :)

...This unidentified bidder at Sotheby's auction in New York on Wednesday bid $95.2 million for a Picasso and $2.5 million for a Chagall. Yesterday that man's face was being sent by e-mail around the world, as art dealers and collectors frenziedly speculated on his identity. He ended up spending $102.7 million, for a 1941 Picasso portrait, "Dora Maar With Cat." ...an 1883 Monet seascape for $5 million...a Chagall, a 1978 biblical scene, for which the man paid $2.5 million But who was he? Sotheby's has refused to say. It is unclear whether he was acting for a client or buying...

I was going through my inbox today and was scanning through the numerous pictures that usually come in. I came across an email that sounded sincere, and was from a man who said he was the tourist guy. Initially I shrugged it off as another person looking for his 15 minutes. I read the email over and he again sounded really serious, so as instructed I opened up the attached pictures. As I was looking at them the feeling of amazement came over me, that was him, there is no doubt in my mind that THE tourist guy has finally ...

One of the terrorist captured today in England.

<p>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.</p>

DALLAS - Dr. Charles R. Baxter, one of the surgeons who tried to save President John F. Kennedy after he was shot, has died, a colleague said. He was 75. The surgeon died Thursday of pneumonia at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, where he had been professor emeritus of surgery since 1993, said Dr. Robert Rege, chairman of surgery. Baxter was the emergency room director at Parkland Memorial Hospital, where Kennedy was taken after being shot by Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov. 22, 1963. "As soon as we realized we had nothing medical to do, we...

E an anonymous Brazilian turned celebrity, of the night for the day, after the attempted against ones to the World Trade Center. The face of a trader of Campinas, in the interior of São Paulo, appeared in sets of ten of images, that are circulating for the InterNet -- the world-wide net of computers. In most famous, it it appears in the high one of the World Trade Center with an airplane you give if to shock with the tower. It sees in the news article of Mayan Cristina what the electronic assembly made in the life of this Brazilian. ...

You've been seeing this guy everywhere latley and it seems no one knows his name. Most are calling him "Tourist Guy" and that's okay, but I knew we can do better than that.

Remember this guy? He seems to be EVERYWHERE!!!!

NEW YORK -- A man jumped to his death Friday from the 86th-floor observation deck at the Empire State Building, one of Manhattan's busiest tourist destinations, police said. The apparent suicide forced police to briefly close the landmark on Fifth Avenue to tourists in New York for the holiday weekend. The man apparently climbed over a security fence that encloses the observation deck before leaping off. He hit a landing on the sixth floor, where he died instantly, police said. No identification was found on his body. At least 31 other people have committed suicide at the Empire State Building...

There is a new Tourist Guy music video. I think it's great. Starts a video game, then...: Tourist Guy Flash Video . Not in the video, but a nice picture anyway

NEW YORK TIMES, June 2, 2004 Accenture Is Awarded U.S. Contract for Borders By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JOHN MARKOFF WASHINGTON, June 1 - The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday named Accenture as the prime contractor for a multibillion-dollar project aimed at creating a "virtual border" around the country to head off would-be terrorists entering the United States. Asa Hutchinson, the under secretary in charge of border security, said the project, called U.S.-Visit was "a significant milestone in the history of the department" and in the bolstering of border security since the Sept. 11 attacks. "I really don't think you...

News Organization: Associated PressTo: News Editors/ Correspondents USA The world is full of all kinds of interesting people.One of them is Greg Packer a [Contsruction Worker] from Huntington, NY who apparently lives to get his name on the Associated Press Wire and in other media.A Nexis search turned up 100 mentions in various publications. And that is just a handful of the stories. He shows up in AP Broadcast actualities and in one APTN piece.Mr. Packer is clearly eager to be quoted. Let's be eager too--to find other people to quote.So far, he is apparently just attending East Coast events....

Got this via e-mail....very, very weird. Subject: WOW > > Apparently the owners of this house had been seeing images and > > hearing voices for quite a while. They did some research and found that a > > lady once lived in the house lost her husband during the civil war. Legend > > says that she used to sit at the table and look across the fields hoping > > to see her loved one returning home. > > > > > > He never came. > > > > So, it's said she still waits.This is a...

Tonight, the "Is it real or fake" item is Tourist Guy. Apparently, they say it is fake............. I refuse to believe them.