I'll bet it's a DeRolean watch.

E. L. B. --^

Maybe it's Lorex Leprica.

Clearly the Chinese have been producing counterfeit Swiss watches for longer than anyone suspected.

Foaming: Clearly the Chinese have been producing counterfeit Swiss watches for longer than anyone suspected.

THIS. Thread over.

Also: How about you have someone from the graphics department re-draw your "weird news" logo, instead of just re-re-re-re-using the same horrid blown-up .gif that started its shelf life as a 50-pixel-wide button in 1994?

MaxxLarge: Also: How about you have someone from the graphics department re-draw your "weird news" logo, instead of just re-re-re-re-using the same horrid blown-up .gif that started its shelf life as a 50-pixel-wide button in 1994?

Biff Tannen: That's about as funny as a screen door on a battleship.
Marty McFly: It's "screen door on a submarine," you dork.

Sun God: Biff Tannen: That's about as funny as a screen door on a battleship.
Marty McFly: It's "screen door on a submarine," you dork.

"McFly, why don't you make like a tree and get outta here?"

Is this thread about that Star Trek "Times Arrow" episode?

Maybe it has something to do with the Baigong Pipes

oh.. sorry, was wondering where i put that.

stereosam: Link

Well...that just made it weirder. And a little bit more hoaxier.

See this watch? Bought from a street vendor for a few dollars. It's worthless. Put in the sand for a thousand years and it becomes priceless.

I first read this story on Ananova. Soo... yeah I call shenanigans.

Budz: I first read this story on Ananova. Soo... yeah I call shenanigans.

Maybe it's a cuckoo clock.

FTFA:Experts are confused as they believe the tomb in Shangsi city had been undisturbed since it was created during the Ming dynasty 400 years ago.

I'm going out on a limb here, but I think ya'll were wrong about that whole "undisturbed" thing.

I love how this is a great mystery to these archeologists. I know they don't like to deal with sites having contamination issues (and understand why/don't blame them), but c'mon!

I bet it was Koriels watch. Good thing Professor Hans was not running the dig.

Obscure references aside, the real question is how did armadillos get to China? (see awards for 2008 Link (new window))

400 YEARS?
It's about time

This proves the Young Earth Theory, as Mankind coexisted with the ancient Chinese!

citizen905: This proves the Young Earth Theory, as Mankind coexisted with the ancient Chinese!

Or velociraptors wore Swiss watches.

The mysterious timepiece was encrusted in mud and rock and had stopped at 10:06 am.

Watches were not around at the time of the Ming Dynasty and Switzerland did not even exist as a country, an expert pointed out.

The archaeologists were filming a documentary with two journalists when they made the puzzling discovery.

Occam's razor obviously says it's a hoax, or it was left there by more recent visitors.

A European timepiece from the 1600's showing up in a 1600's Chinese tomb? I'd buy that. People did own trade goods, especially rich people. But not a wristwatch. Back then a "watch" was the clock the night watchman carried, or a pocketwatch a nobleman had paid a small fortune for.

Benevolent Misanthrope: Foaming: Clearly the Chinese have been producing counterfeit Swiss watches for longer than anyone suspected.

THIS. Thread over.

Seconded. Gavel it closed.

Doc is sorry that he didn't have time to build the model to scale.

stereosam: Link

stereosam: Link

The mysterious timepiece was encrusted in mud and rock and had stopped at 10:06 am.

Was it digital?

They've been finding bigger and stranger artifacts in coal seams for hundreds of years.

even odder, one of the archaeologists can't find her watch anywhere...

Foaming: Clearly the Chinese have been producing counterfeit Swiss watches for longer than anyone suspected.

You win. That could have been the headline of the year.

/still laughing as I type
/going to walk away now

Foaming: Clearly the Chinese have been producing counterfeit Swiss watches for longer than anyone suspected.

Winner.

Is that where I lost my R.01ex. I bought it from a kind gentleman who emailed me.

Foaming: Clearly the Chinese have been producing counterfeit Swiss watches for longer than anyone suspected.

+1000! Winnah!!!

/subby receives -100 for submitting article without photo and another -900 for not coming up with a headline as good as Foaming's.

For those keeping score: subby's total point loss= -1000.

I came for the MCCCFRRRYYYYY!!!! reference and I'm leaving disappointed.

Who had wrists small enough to wear that?

Watches were not around at the time of the Ming Dynasty and Switzerland did not even exist as a country, an expert pointed out.

So... Ric Romero working at the Daily Mail now?

I'd say that tomb was disturbed...very disturbed!

It was put there by me to test your faith in the age of the earth.

So Chinese history is bunk as well.

Anatoly Fomenko FTW!

potato_chip_eating_geek


Ha ha!! son of a bict........

There's going to be a temporal war in 2268 in China (the only surviving world Superpower since America basically committed psychotic-suicide with the aid of hordes of retards undeserving of life from 2000 to 2008 and the Soviets "Nuked Themselves" with a little subversive help).

Some folks will appear long before this era and some fairly close. Most are not trying to change the major events aside from whom comes out on top in power by 2105 when the new Chinese Emperor of the World is named. The time-war lasts around 400 years of temporally-erased chaos an in 2292 a null-spin temporal barrier of neutron-sized particles is put in place which basically slices any person who travels at a rate faster than 1 second per second into bits. Many of the participants of the time war die against the temporal barrier. The remaining ones who flee out of the solar system to alter their temporal location and then come back are blown apart by the Orbital Solar Protection Array. There remains a contingent of Chinese temporal agents in play to destroy any human out to alter whom the Great World Emperor of 2105 is and deflect the destruction of the other world Superpower nations as was proclaimed "Just and Overdue" by the Praised Emperor of Infinite Chinese Merciful Rule.

That does not limit clever folks from suspending their life functions and riding backwards in minus 1 second per second capsules. Many of these are located and destroyed by identifications of their unique power signature. Not all of them are though and there are other ways to send a human back into time aside from "the slow road".

// You're all corpses by the time this happens. So don't fret about the future.
/// Except that whole "Psychotic Suicide of the United States of America".
//// Yeah, most of you wanted it. That will hurt for a big long time. The innocents who are spared the horrors and the rich who flee the oncoming dictatorial enslavement Deathcamps will be hunted down by the Soviets and the Chinese to "Provide Deserved Balance". The future *CAN* be altered. But it won't be.

DontBeStupid: I bet it was Koriels watch. Good thing Professor Hans was not running the dig.

Obscure references aside, the real question is how did armadillos get to China? (see awards for 2008 Link (new window))



Do I win?

came here for a walken image and left disappointed.

Worst article ever. Thanks stereosam for a link to a better one.

The moment of discovery:
Link (new window)

Office Ninja:
Do I win?

Yes, but only because I couldn't scan my copy fast enough.

No Such Agency: The mysterious timepiece was encrusted in mud and rock and had stopped at 10:06 am.

Watches were not around at the time of the Ming Dynasty and Switzerland did not even exist as a country, an expert pointed out.

The archaeologists were filming a documentary with two journalists when they made the puzzling discovery.

Occam's razor obviously says it's a hoax, or it was left there by more recent visitors.

A European timepiece from the 1600's showing up in a 1600's Chinese tomb? I'd buy that. People did own trade goods, especially rich people. But not a wristwatch. Back then a "watch" was the clock the night watchman carried, or a pocketwatch a nobleman had paid a small fortune for.

Sherlock Holmes said if you eliminate the impossible, whatever you have left, however improbable is invariably the truth. I however say why discount the impossible?

I miss DNA...

I call BS
The watch was stopped at 10:06 AM?
AM PM on a small watch? bull!