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Originally Posted by Lordblacknail
I am still looking for the title of the short story about a group of guys who travel to the future one at a time, come back and just start drinking themselves silly, until one explains that the first thing he saw when he arrived in the future was a statue of a cockroach.....wearing a suit and hat and carrying a briefcase.
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Well, a couple of things here fit, many don't, but at least there's a cockroach:
"The Figure" by Edward Grendon, originally in
Astounding Science Fiction, July 1947. It has been anthologized a few times.
https://archive.org/details/Astoundi...e/n45/mode/2up