The mentally ill are funny.

[nfotxn]

So while waiting from my connecting bus home from Dave's there was this terribly funny crazy guy. Chris and I are sitting there, discussing something inane due to morning-after Stoopidhead™ when out of no-where this man who looks like a deschepled Wil Wheaton yells "Life's a BITCH EH? 'Specially when you're a TIME TRAVELER!" then contines to sit there singing Coca Cabana muttering about how he shouldn't have told us he was from the future. Although he could have just as easily been from the past..

It was just so mentally-ill cliché. Although perhaps I'll need to be more compassionate as I truly think my Dad is losing his mind. Honestly, more on that later though.

I did get a good chuckle though ;)

Comments

[dancubca.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've noticed a pattern with mentally ill peeps--it's either a time theme or a religious one. And while I agree that mentally ill people can seem funny at times, it's really rather sad. I guess since my brother is mentally ill I see things differently than most people, though...

[deafeuphoria.livejournal.com]

yeah and im mentally ill. you should know that.

[sultmhoor.livejournal.com]

Do you think it's a big steam powered Jules Verne model, a Victorian scrollwork brass-and-glass H.G. Wells style model, or one of those nifty little doodad "Omni"s like in the show "Voyagers"?

Did you ask him about the temporal prime directive?

Obviously he either knows there's no point in worrying about distorting the time hypercube because
a) there's some grandfathering clause (i.e., if he ruins his own timeline, due to some temporal conservation law he stays in the NEW timeline with the old timeline he came from forever pinched off)
b) his history has nothing to do with you (this is possible, it's probable to be able to calculate the ripples in history considering just about everything now is recorded, detailed, and databased)
c) he's just a tourist, and there are some other, yet-untheorized corrective measures the temporal tour company puts in place to readjust the hypercubes back
d) maybe he's TRYING to ruin the hypercube! He could be a temporal terrorist! Imagine what would happen if time travel machinery got in the hands of the wrong people! EEEEEE!

Seriously, though, I think the last option is probably the right one. He's probably here, not giving a shit, carrying some genetically close, yet designed-to-induce-genetic-problems sperm of some ancester of one of his contemporaries, someone that he wants to stop. He finds the wife of some long-distant ancestor of the guy he's messing with, impregnates her with it at some point in his distant past, her and Nemesis' great-great-great-great-...-grandfather think it's a 'real, natural birth' and the DNA sequencing we have today won't be good enough to notice the defect that causes the n^th ancestor to suddenly have some horribly disastrous genetic defect that shows up at birth. Forever adjusting Bad Time Traveller Guy's Nemesis to a life of discovering a cure for Bulrafig Glabbardosis, instead of becoming the man that finally converts the last Wiccan in 4155 to atheism.

[bremo.livejournal.com]

If he was singing copa cabana and enjoying it, he was likely from the past.