Delorean Time Machine recalled...

[ersatzhusker]

Zemeckis - McFly- Brown Industries just announced an emergency recall of all extant time-travel modified Delorean DMC-12 vehicles powered by 1.21 GWatt flux-capacitors because of...

trans-alternate-reality travel rather than the specific trans-time travel as originally advertised.

This potentially nasty problem was first brought to the manufacturer's attention by a benign posting on an obscure message board called "VolleyTalk". It seems that according to unsubstantiated, but google-able reports at least two threads on this message board cited use of the TTM DMC-12 that turned out to be completely wrong in this reality.

What has not be factored into these "wrong" results (in one case, USC beating Stanford 3-0 rather than the reverse result), is the possibility of Las Vegas betting by a third party, a Mr Biff Tannen and his alleged "pay off" of USC diggers to shank match-critical spikes by some players named Garbonzo and Feeluuka.

Investigation continues by interested parties.

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The problem is the multitude of possible futures. I personally know there is one where I grow to be 20 feet tall and wreak havoc in downtown Lincoln. Will it happen in the future we all share? Let's hope not. I heard Ron Kern gets squished.

[ersatzhusker]

ruffda said:

The problem is the multitude of possible futures.(snip)

Yeah, that's the b#@$ of alternate realities, isn't it? In some alternate realities, we'd be talking about how we'd be Dinosaur cuisine and VB wouldn't exist because most Dinos cannot jump. At least not as high as Sarah Pavan or Destinee Hooker.

[cruncher]

In English the initial G of giga can be pronounced with a soft G (as in gigantic) or with a hard G (as in giggle). According to the American writer Self, in the 1920s a German committee member of the International Electrotechnical Commission proposed giga- as a prefix for 109, drawing on a verse by the humorous poet Christian Morgenstern that appeared in the third (1908) edition of Galgenlieder (Gallows Songs). This suggests a hard German g was originally intended as the pronunciation. Self was unable to ascertain at what point the soft g pronunciation became accepted, but as of 1995 current practice had returned to hard g.[1] A prominent example of the soft G pronunciation is found in the 1985 movie Back to the Future, where gigawatts was pronounced as jigawatts.

Dr. Brown lost all credibility with me when he pronounced it "jiga".