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If you could go back in time where would you go?
Would you go back to pre historic times and trade blows with the dinosaurs?
Perhaps the late ninteen twenties or early thirties gangster era might be more your style.
Some may even like medievel times the castle life and banquets for all.
Or maybe the Vietnam war era? could you see your self as a hippie perhaps? Woodstock and flower power?
I picked the gangster times. I wanna be a moll!
Jennafer
03-12-02, 10:43AM
I'd definitly be a hippie......I'd love to just lay around in the grass all day stinking and looking like hell, but getting higher than a kite all day long.........Wait. Am I a hippie now?????:confused:
I'd go for the early 1900's. So much was on the bleeding edge then. Electricity was becoming readily available. Men were beginning to soar through the air in powered craft, not to mention the four wheeled (and two wheeled) devices scaring horses to death! Patent clerks were deluged with gizmos and thingamajigs that claimed all sorts of remedies for everyday life.
Gentlemen tipped their hats. Ladies were just that. (OK, give me the occasional sexy tramp). If you wanted to explore wilderness, it wasn't contained, plain and simple. Just let me bring back a couple of select impressionist canvases and maybe one or two Tiffany windows.
I think I'd go back to Europe in the 1890s. No doubt, this is biased by the fact that I had an AMAZING European history teacher that made this time period feel super cool.
It was a time when the Elites were trying to keep the little guy out - and they were not succeeding in the big picture. Art was changing - Art Nouveau, Stile Liberty, Jungendstil - Social patterns were being looked at. Industrial revolutions, modernism, philosophy. It seemed like people slowed down enough at this point to look around and see how both physical and social theories applied in their lives.
I realize there are some scary things about this time as well. Soon, along comes WWII. Hitler, Napolean, Nietze...Cholera/malaria, etc.....
I still think I'd like this time period.
Jennafer
03-12-02, 07:01PM
Peace, love, and happiness, dude...........(where did I leave my braincell?) AH, forget about it!:kissy:
4 AD ...
I heard a rumor that our time is off by 4 years. I would surely want to change the clock so "we" aren't late to work anymore
ozblonde
03-13-02, 10:29PM
Oh it just has to be medievel times for sure. Feasts, Knights on white horses,Feasts, Dragons, Feasts, Prince Valliant, And more Feasts. Life would be so sweet just think no one ever gets old we would all be obese and have heart attacks by thirty. But what a life :) Some how I think a week of that life style would condem me to a lifetime of lettice and cellery
I wouldn't want to. I'm quite happy where I am now. What can I say I love my modern things. Couldn't live without my computer or my CD player
Originally posted by Anton
I wouldn't want to. I'm quite happy where I am now. What can I say I love my modern things. Couldn't live without my computer or my CD player
Indoor plumbing, that's all I'm saying.
Originally posted by Diva
Indoor plumbing, that's all I'm saying.
The ancient greeks and romans invented and had indoor plumbing Thats All Im Saying :) So there Anton get a big thick one up yer :finger:
That's my post, dipwad. :rude: And I'd like to stick to an era where the women weren't 'openly' treated like cattle. At least in most countries.
Redallnite
03-19-02, 07:51PM
Originally posted by aussie
The ancient greeks and romans invented and had indoor plumbing Thats All Im Saying :) So there Anton get a big thick one up yer :finger:
They even had heated baths.:kissy:
acidstrik
03-20-02, 10:09AM
Medevil times is the place for me. Even though the armor that the knights wore was heavy, it's sweet looking. And besides, where else can you ride around on open fields and grassy knolls on a horse, wearing full knights armor, carrying a broad blade sword, hunting down criminals, hacking their heads off, and finally bringing their heads back on a pike and delivering it to your leader where he would eventually post it up for display in his front yard?
ozblonde
03-20-02, 01:29PM
hey acidsyrick dontforget about rescueing damsels in distress and slaying dragons
That armor is pretty damn heavy. So are the weapons. I think they didn't have long battles just because they got tired so quickly.
So, ozblonde.... you like being called a wench, eh?:D :eek: :cheesy:
ozblonde
03-20-02, 01:41PM
Aussie calls me a bitch all the time so being a wench is no problem at all. I kinda think of my self as 49% sweetheart and 51% bitch anyway:)
Originally posted by ozblonde
Aussie calls me a bitch all the time so being a wench is no problem at all. I kinda think of my self as 49% sweetheart and 51% bitch anyway:)
Don't get me started on that! It's different out here. It's taken more as an insult. Ask Aussie... He did it to me once... ONCE!!!
Originally posted by Diva
Don't get me started on that! It's different out here. It's taken more as an insult. Ask Aussie... He did it to me once... ONCE!!!
Hey Im no wimp are you forgetting about my birthday? that was TWICE
Im a slow learner actually
acidstrik
03-21-02, 07:50AM
True, rescueing damsels in distress and slaying dragons are good, but hunting down criminals and hacking their heads off is cool too.
-Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
True as well. The armor was extremely heavy, however, after being prone to having long battles and being subject to wearing the heavy armor most of the time, you would accuire a resistance to the weight.
-You win wars not by dying for your country, but by making the other poor bastard die for his.
-General George S. Patton
ozblonde
03-21-02, 01:45PM
it must get kind of smelly in all that armour on a hot day though dont you think. Im not sure but I dont believe the roll on had been invented at that time. "actually I doubt soap had been invented"
acidstrik
03-22-02, 08:45AM
To a common person now-a-days would think so, but had you have lived during that time you wouldn't care too much.
Remember, Queen Elizabeth took a bath once a month and she was considered the cleanest person of that time.
I voted for Medevil just because it wouldn't have so many damn people everywhere. There's nothing like riding your horse in the mountains when no one's around. Peaceful, that's what I want.
ozblonde
03-22-02, 02:57PM
I also like peace and quiet. Although I dont go much on horses Ive never had a lot to do with them.
Im sure Im not going any place with out my roll on and a cake of soap though
I love horseback riding. I used to own a horse and would ride every chance that i got. Peace and quiet is nice, bathing more than once a month is better!!!
Sharks do taste better but, I kinda like stupid animals.
Why not have a peek at any era you are interested in? I definatively would like to visit the Egyptians, the Greeks, Romans, Chinese and Celts in their glory periods.
Amaurote
03-30-02, 10:41AM
February 1917, to watch the Russian Revolution erupt. I'd take a gun, of course.
And who would you be shooting at?
ozblonde
03-30-02, 01:16PM
Originally posted by Amaurote
February 1917, to watch the Russian Revolution erupt. I'd take a gun, of course.
Hi Am where have you been? itsgood to see you back. So why in the heck would you want to see a revolution anyway?
Amaurote
03-31-02, 03:04AM
I'd be shooting at either Lenin or Trotsky, Syslord, to prevent one of the most horrific and cruel civil wars in the history of man - I've read most of the memoirs, so I'd undoubtedly know where to find them...and I'd probably time it so that the Parvus evidence - which exposed Lenin's complicity with the German High Command - emerged just before. I'm not a violent man in the least - I'd probably want to see if providing Kerensky with the pertinent information could save the Provisional Government first, without bloodshed...but I seriously doubt it.
As for why, OZ - the February Revolution was supposedly one of the most beautiful revolutions ever...spontaneous, popular, and generally free from violence. It seems a wonderful way to start Springtime off, and I envy those who saw and participated in it - it's probably one of the few "fun" revolutions in the annals of history.
Compare that to October, which was about as popular, spontaneous and vivifying as a bucket of cowshit on the end of a very long pole.
Am... And then what would you do? You have the knowledge of the era and have done your deed. What would you do next?
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