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Old 01-07-2016, 03:41 PM
Louis Louis is offline
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Originally Posted by RFC View Post
Currency will be worthless during the Zombie Apocalypse.
My favorite is what I think was a Twilight Zone, where a crooked scientist figures out how to put humans in hibernation. So they steal a bunch of gold, put themselves to sleep for 100 years (or whatever it was) then wake up thinking that they're going to be rich.

Turns out that by then scientists have figured out how to manufacture as much gold as they want, so it's now essentially worthless.

Yup - here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rip_Van_Winkle_Caper
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