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Here’s how you spark a true Internet meme: you spot something funny in an old B&W 1928 Charly Chaplin movie, post it on the Internet (YouTube) together with a ridiculous explanation. And with this simple post the guy gets over 4 million hits and a lot of debate, varying from plain stupid to intriguing.

Just watch this video from this guy called George Clarke  (if you can make it past the annoying self-promotion – just skip it if you need) and hear and see what the fuzz is all about:

So, did that make you go “Hmmm”?

Don’t you think, however, that his explanation with the video, is that of a classic nutcase?

“My only theory – as well as many others – is simple… a time traveler on a mobile phone. See for yourself and feel free to leave a comment on your own explanation or thoughts about it.”

Seriously. That’s your only theory? Not a lot of imagination, right?

Dude, have you ever heard of Occam’s razor? How logical is the explanation? “A time traveler on a mobile phone”.

I really wonder then: how do you use a mobile phone in a time when there are no mobile transmitters around? Who would you talk too?

And why, of all advanced futuristic devices a time traveler could take from the future, would he/she use a mobile phone? C’mon. Even the secret service uses these nice ear-buds that are almost invisible.

Also, remember how people reacted when we all started to start talking on our mobile phones while walking on the street? I do! When I first answered my mobile phone back in ’95 of the last century I felt quite awkward! And people stared at me as well. How come no one seems to mind the lady/man?

You got it right: because it can’t be a mobile phone.

Now, on his blog, Clarke posted the following:

Please keep in mind, that when I first made the Chaplins Time Traveler video, I simply made my point – to me, my explanation of the 1928 footage was that of a time traveler on a mobile phone (or some form of communication device), followed simply by asking for yourviews on what you were seeing! With this, I will state that until the mystery of our suspect person is solved, there is no correct answer… Not mine, not yours, not the millions of other people that have answers around the world.

We just don’t know.

Off course that is total & utter nonsense: because we know one thing for sure: time travel is not possible (or else our history would have been quite different already) and so it can’t be a mobile phone.

Yup, Internet sometimes is just like real life – there are many nutters out there- isn’t it?