Burying the past

I was watching a piece on TV the other day about a bunch of school kids out west somewhere burying a 'time capsule'. It brought back memories of when I was in primary school, how we all put something we thought would be interesting to people in the future into a plastic container and buried it under a tree.
We put in class photos, coins, newspapers... the usual stuff a seven-year-old would think people would be interested in.

But sitting here now, I realise back then that while that stuff was cool, how accurate a picture of life would it have been?

I decided that I would make up a list of things that should go into a more realistic representation of our lives in 2009...

1) An iPod loaded with a 'Rick Roll' to really screw the bastards up... never gonna give you up.. never gonna let you down... never gonna AAAARRRGGH!!
2) A hand-shaped back scratcher on a long stick from Go-Lo. Ha Ha! Imagine the buggers trying to work that one out! One of them would write a thesis on how we must have been hand-worshippers and it was probably a sceptre of some description
3) A packet of cigarettes... let's show them how silly we really were
4) A picture of John Howard... they'll think we all looked like badgers
5) A Ralph magazine, some twat will think it is a guide to fertility rituals
6) A Chiko Roll. Why? Because it will STILL be edible
7) A can of Coke - in 2000 years it should still be drinkable
8) Michael Daley... well hell, WE don't want him!
9) A Star Wars figurine - they'll think we knew more about space travel then we actually do
10) A Snuggy... so we all look like Yoda!

So, basically this will confirm to them that we are junk food worshipping fat bastards, who love Rick Astley, dress like Yoda, root a lot and worship hand-sceptres... that ought to screw 'em!