Sure it's a fake . . . by the Atlanteans.

no other example of the writing has been found, and even the shape and format of the object is unique.

And I believe this proves my point.

@5

Truly! How difficult to imagine watching card games as entertainment today!

five more days till Halloween--
Silver Shamrock!

The cool thing is that it takes 42 minutes regardless of where the tube is...

But, but,

On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris

So either Donald Fagan doesn't know his physics, or there's a stop in Iceland or whatever.

Them fancy-pants literary critics call this mise en abyme. I don't know from cocoa packaging.

Thanks for the nightmare fodder! I'd been running short on disturbing Tagesrest.

I remember in the early 70s, as a toddler, having my nicest clothes (a suit and clip-on tie) as my "airplane suit"; I don't recall ever wearing it for anything else. That dress code must have been pretty serious, for a special outfit to be piled on top of the already way-out-of-our-price-range transatlantic flights.

Also, cockpit visits ROCKED.

But also, flights were smoky like they were curing bacon.

Ah, this reminded me of Umberto Eco's chestnut on Mac vs DOS:

http://jowett.web.cern.ch/jowett/EcoMACDOS.htm

Strange how dated that is now, with his considering Windows some new schism.

Vista is a glossy megachurch in Texas. OSX is clearly Santeria.

Is the bear hugging Great Cthulhu? Now that makes me hungry for chocolate!

"CBS Special Presentation" will forever mean "Charlie Brown Special". I didn't realize just how strong that association was until now.