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You guys, this is serious....ABC stole an idea from ONE OF MY USM POSTS...

  Author: 55994  Category:(Interesting) Created:(7/11/2003 9:36:00 PM)
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Okay, I'm sure some of you even now remember my "I know what happens for the next 13 years" post where I said I went to bed as my 30 year old self and work up the next morning as my 17 year old self with my 30 year old mind. Here is the link: http://unsolvedmysteries.com/usm265365.html

Well anyways, yep, it was fiction, me just having some good ole fun. Well, it turns out, later in the fall ABC came out with a show called "That was Then" with the same exact premise. The funny thing is, go to imdb or any other entertainment site, ABC showed its first trailer for That was Then in mid to late july/early august... OVER A MONTH AFTER MY STORY!!! Doesn't this seem just A LITTLE bit shady on ABC's part?

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THEY STOLE MY IDEA WHAT THE HECK

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Date: 7/11/2003 9:39:00 PM  From Authorid: 34487    Hmm, I don't know... it could just be a coincidence.  
Date: 7/11/2003 9:39:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 55994    http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-10814

read the description of the show....
Date: 7/11/2003 9:40:00 PM  From Authorid: 20750    That is very strange! LOL! If it had been my idea I'd probably feel the same way!  
Date: 7/11/2003 9:41:00 PM  From Authorid: 36704    the concept of the show was probably conceived at least a year before the trailor was made and the trailor was probably made months before it was shown  
Date: 7/11/2003 9:51:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 55994    i think my story is still a little too close...
Date: 7/11/2003 9:58:00 PM  From Authorid: 53052    it was probally done up by a writer 3 years ago and shot in the summer when you had the dream/idea.. maybe you was a commercial in passing or read something that brought on this idea... i don't think the "stole" it from that exact post... it takes FAR FAR FAR mor ethen a month to put together a script get it to pass then start filming it and have the commercials running on TV  
Date: 7/11/2003 11:15:00 PM  From Authorid: 29532    I truly agree with Base on this one.  
Date: 7/11/2003 11:27:00 PM  From Authorid: 30051    Well I m glad you told the truth.. That was not very cool of you to lie. Anyways I saw the commercial for that and thought of you and your post:)  
Date: 7/12/2003 3:52:00 AM  From Authorid: 62104    They must have spies here on usm. Amanda1  
Date: 7/12/2003 5:02:00 AM  From Authorid: 10245    development of a new series take way more than a month  
Date: 7/12/2003 6:31:00 AM  From Authorid: 22852    Base is right, it takes months, sometimes years before they show the trailer, and I remember your post by the way, I thought it was funny. Oh and I loved the idea of it.  
Date: 7/12/2003 10:20:00 AM  From Authorid: 49037    Yeah, tv shows take a long time to create and develope, before anything is shot. It's almost impossible that they could have made a trailer only a month after seeing an idea somewhere. It's just a coincidence that it's so similar to your post.  
Date: 7/12/2003 6:47:00 PM  From Authorid: 51456    jeez... didn't they give u any credit.. exact smae thing happned to my dad he's a really creative person ..perfectionist he worked about a month on this tv projceter thing i on't even understand it and if he had just worked on it a month or 2 mrore he could have been a millio nair or something.. id uno.. but yea.. and the darn thing was put in the newspaper and invented but obody really uses them or w.e. i \duno even wut the heck it is.. he told me about it like 30 yrs ago... or something.. thats a shame... he coulda been rich. but oh.welll no biggie rite dun worry bout it...ur story thing was great any way... ' natasa' hgz&kissez  
Date: 7/26/2003 8:15:00 AM  From Authorid: 61646    I doubt they stole. What are the chances that they actually came onto this site and took your idea. I mean I agree with everyone else who posted this, it takes much longer than a few months to make something like that...awesome story though. :)

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