So I'm hanging out at a castle made of skeletons in Missouri, sipping some impressive coffee (none of that Starbucks burnt crap) and listening to two of my friends discuss taking over the world. That's when one of them lets slip that they have built a prototype time machine that actually works, albeit for only short periods of time. They start to argue about paradoxes and "dangerous time-shattering consequences" when I thought of a way to test if it works in a way that would not cause irrepairable damage.
Of course, they were both interested in my plan...at first. They didn't like it because it didn't involve mass casualties or chunks of the planet falling into the sun, but in the end they decided it would work fine as a controlled test.
The concept was easy. I would go visit my friend etouffee and have them publish a node on the website Everything2.com, which everyone with a brain more powerful than an amoeba knows is the website of brilliant, exceptionally good-looking users. I would have etouffee post a node, randomly titled "if we are to be lies, we will be lies of our own making", today, April 3rd, but the laptop would be in the time slipstream and appear to post about a week ago (or so, time travel is not an exact science yet.)
Sure enough, etouffee decided to go along, ignoring the X-39 ray gun blaster I was pointing, and posted the node today.
Amazingly enough, it really worked. The node appeared in the past, even though it was really (honestly) posted today. So now I have to go talk to my other friend, wertperch, and show him how shiny the business end of an X-39 ray gun blaster is and to get him to agree to approve if we are to be lies, we will be lies of our own making for his silly LieQuest 2022.