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Be as specific or as broad as you want.

I will start by saying I like the time after the American Civil War and before WWII in France or America. It's got silent film, great modern art, jazz, etc.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

10,191 Arrakis.

Actually disease freaks me out about most previous time periods. but if I was just visiting, then probably Imperial Rome or Ancient Egypt. Obv choices, but just to see them "live" would be rad.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

(only the second half of it has got any of those things!!)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 22:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I stetched it back a bit to include the time of Manet, Degas, Monet, Gauguin and Renoir.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 23:09 (twenty-three years ago)

There's nothing I love better than classic deep soul music, so Memphis through the great Stax and Hi eras would suit me wonderfully.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Might as well hang around in Judaea in the time of Christ to see what the shouting was all about.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 23:20 (twenty-three years ago)

The future. As far into the future of humanity as it's possible to go. If someone can arrange that for me, I don't care where I am. East Kilbride even, that'd be cool.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 00:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd like to give Victorian England a go.

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 00:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Albert's Apr 19, 1943 Bike Ride. NYC and SF 1960's and early 70's. Hanging with Sun Ra from the beginning to the end. Dunedin in the Xpressway era. First Worlds Fair. On location in Portmeirion for the filming of The Prisoner. Birth of Jesus. Beginning to present of Smithsonian Folkways.Building of the Pyramids.

― brg30 (brg30), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 01:29 (twenty-three years ago)

2140

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 02:13 (twenty-three years ago)

9/10

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 02:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Ancient Rome during the time of Ceasar.

― Micheline Gros-Jean (Micheline), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 04:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Favorite for what? I'm getting my history MA, and history people seem to come in two types -- the kind who wish they lived during the period they study, and the kind who are really really glad they didn't. I'm the second.

There's no other time period I'd want to live in, but if I were excommunicated from the present and couldn't be sneaky and say "Ohfine, thirty seconds ago, then," I'd go with the 1920s -- easier to make money writing short stories then, for one.

Favorite period to study: the last few centuries BC and first few centuries AD, in the Jewish and Christian lands. Closely followed by the US from about 1890 to the 1930s (Robert Wiebe's organizational hypothesis focuses on that period as the time when American culture and thought moved from the regional to the national, etc. etc.)

Period I would most like to travel to, accompanied by all the appropriate Time Traveller Gear and Universal Translators and so forth, with the ability to return at will: Canaan, at the time the Yahwists took control, by whatever means that occurred.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 04:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Dunedin in the Xpressway era. that sucked, i checked it out.

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 04:55 (twenty-three years ago)

1820, on board the Essex.

― Dave Fischer, Wednesday, 30 October 2002 05:27 (twenty-three years ago)

1986, Acton, London W3.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 08:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Weimar Republic Berlin, for Dada, and Brecht & Weill

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 08:27 (twenty-three years ago)

18th century please. I'd like to be rich enough to afford dresses like this. And if you could arrange for me to escape the guillotine, that would be nice. Ta.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 09:12 (twenty-three years ago)

You and your dresses.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Nothing wrong with a nice dress.

Besides Madchen de Pompador has quite a ring to it.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 09:30 (twenty-three years ago)

As far as the actual question ... at the moment i'm having weird nostalgia for the early nineties, but i think that will pass ... so I'd like to go and hang around in new York with Pollock and the rest.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 09:33 (twenty-three years ago)

The Klondike goldrush! I'd go back 1889 & open up a saloon in Dawson City in the Yukon. Slinging whiskey for the prospectors, can-can revue nightly, customers would be encouraged to pay in gold dust...

― Miss Laura, Wednesday, 30 October 2002 09:54 (twenty-three years ago)

London and Oxford, 1985-2001.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 30 October 2002 10:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Bethel, New York. August 15th 16th and 17th, 1969.

― lol p xx, Wednesday, 30 October 2002 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

now. here.

screw living in the stinky, diseased, even more barbaric, even less equal past.

― angela (angela), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

that's a lovely thought, Angela, but it would only make sense if humanity was entirely logical

me? Wye Valley (English / Welsh borders) 1971. but not forever.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 31 October 2002 06:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Madchen, that's why God created John Galliano.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 31 October 2002 08:57 (twenty-three years ago)

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