Plunderers
They sound more like bandits robbing a tomb a few years after it was built. Aren't time capsules supposed to be found in the distant future, not just thirty years later when you can still buy the contents of it on ebay?
A team of researchers have unearthed a time capsule containing an early Apple mouse that once belonged to Steve Jobs. A television crew filming a program for the National Geographic Channel tracked and unearthed the capsule, which was originally buried outside of Aspen, Colorado in 1983. Among the contents pulled from the …
I was thinking that as well, but a quick search turned up that the capsule was actually intended to be opened in the year 2000, likely as a sort of millennium event, but they apparently lost track of exactly where it was buried, and didn't want to dig up the whole yard. So, it actually ended up being buried much longer than intended. Here's an article I found from a few years back that provides more details...
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20100628/NEWS/100629859
Apparently there was a muffin and beer in the capsule too. For some reason, they didn't make the news headlines though.
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In the old days, dignitaries, mayors, etc, used to place gold coins and other valuables under Foundation Stones of newly commissioned buildings.
The problem was, the builders would often rob these caches just after the official party had left for drinks and canapes.
Citation:
A City Lost and Found - Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne
Robyn Annear
Pub date: August 2005
ISBN: 9781863953894
About this mouse . . . Do you know exactly what it looks like? If so, could you assist me in making a "commemorative model" of it, so that more idiots fanbois sophisticated people can enjoy it's looks?
If you don't know what it looks like, would you want to buy the guaranteed original one? For 20 quid extra I'll wrap it up in a piece of the guaranteed original Turin shroud for you.
Just give me a call under 0203 555 419 419
"this mouse was touched by the hand of Jobs."
In a couple of thousand years, it'll be the stuff of legend.
A comedy group called Ponty Mython, who make very funny, and sometimes bizarre holographic tv shows, will turn their hand to a holographic film, and it will be called "Ponty Mython and the Holy Mouse" and will be about King George VII (who by then will be the stuff of legend) and his quest for this legendary mouse.
Mr Scott,
whilst attempting to design 'transparent aluminum' (sp.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092007/
Mr Spock and Captain Kirk were trying to find the whales and the rest of the crew, 'nuclear wessels' (sp)
I'll get my coat...and Phil Farange Nit Pickers guide in the pocket.
Here we see Indy on another quest, this time to recover the fabled, lost Mouse of Jobs, rumoured to be protected by the Undying Fanboi Brigade in a secret temple far below the Colorado Rockies.
After battling Nazis, Thuggees, and his smart-ass father, he succeeds is retrieving the Holy Relic, and emerges to adulation (and a hot female or two) holding the Mouse aloft.
Little known fact
This was the mouse that was used by Jobs to Download the first internet porn
The Cupertino King used to call it the Lisa handjober
Ps He did not clean it before he "" Donated it"" so there might still be little jobbys Dna preserved on it
Coat its a "Dirty Mac"