Going Back in TimePoll

doesn't really matter what time line i could be sent back, i'd still just be missing it all by hanging out in my bedroom looking at porn

Went with flappers. More interested in lots of the other eras, but those places were dangerous, dude.

went with Jesus, love to know what the fuck what the fuck

but can you imagine returning back here...

"OMG SO SO WHAT DID U SEE !! TELL USSSS ABOUT JESUS!"
"actually, was really knackered when i got there with jetlag and slept through the whole reincarnation thing. soz guys"

I actually went down the list looking for "flappers". No contest, really.

King Arthur did exist then?

Haha in theory, yes. But yeah, i'd love to go back to c.550 AD and find out.

(When I was a kid that would have been my choice without question; I was an Arthur obsessive).

I think the most common theory about 'Arthur' is hat he was a Romanised British (read Cornish or welsh) chieftan who united the Britons against the invading Saxons and kept the tide back in relative peace for about thirty years, hence that period was remembered as a golden age by sucessive generations of folk memory.

Torn between Socrates, Russian revolt and Beats. Erring towards Russia, being a dirty commie bastage as I am.

Flappers are cool, but, y'know, I'm a little concerned about the objectification of the purty ladies.

Heh, I'd probably spend all my time at the cinema or in theatres, only some of the time perving over Colleen Moore or Virginia Lee Corbin or whoever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arvQNZuQhLY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfomcfVGqCQ

if i'm honest, would probably go back a few years with a book of sporting results a la Back to the Future 2.

which it why it wasn't included, cos everyone on ilx would do that

ur a smart muthafucka

torn between dinosaurs and earlier Greek option. would be fascinated to see Ancient Greek world in operation so i will vote for that. write in would be Tokugawa era Japan.

none of our immune systems could take anything pre-1900 so elvis/beats for me

all this historical shit everybody wants to see would just be really dirty and ugly and plain

- Right: here we are in bethlehem, 2000 years in the past. What are we gonna do about the time-travel machine?
- lets just park it on top of this stable. its made of pure energy anyway so the locals'll just think its some kinda big star.
- good idea. have you got the disguise? we need to blend in.
- mmm couldn't find any palestinian clobber, but this persian get-up should do
- yeah, we don't look jewish anyway, probably is best to say we're visitors from the east or sommat. you're a very wise man.

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like catherine de medici

immune system complaint slightly outweighed in suspension of disbelief stakes by important TIME TRAVEL element.

where is the 'get drunk and sleep with your great great great grandmother' option? not for me obviously, just thinking of others

all this historical shit everybody wants to see would just be really dirty and ugly and plain
Also they'd peg you for a foreigner in a second and sell you into slavery, chop you into organs for sacrifices, etc.

- yeah, we don't look jewish anyway

's alright, neither did Jesus

http://prayerfoundation.org/movies/movie_41.jpg

Easter Island - the raising of the first head vs drawing that big spider in the Nazca Plains

-Make sure to know exact location of treasure trove discovered in 19th or 20th century, make sure to know what fantastic investement to make with it in destination time
-Bring encyclopedia
-Get vaccinated for EVERYTHING
-Bring recipe for making penicillin
-Go back to 18th Century France and thoroughly and vigorously debauch self

I don't know man, I think hanging out at Pickfair or San Simeon would be pretty far from dirty, ugly, or plain. I'm assuming no-body's wanting to go back and be an ordinary working stiff like we all are now, eh?

San Simeon would be dull mostly apart from getting Marion Davies drunk.

My second and probably better choice would be to do Paris in the 90's/Belle Epoque.

FUCKING DINOSAURS

this question was the central preoccupation of my life from age 6 to 12

and yet when all is said & done i would prob just go w/ the beats, although watching this Athenians and Spartans defeat Persians from a hilltop would be pretty fucking awesome

Jimmy are you sure you'd know how to hook up w/dinosaurs?

those little egg laying dudes

Italian Renaissance for me, thanks.

also, flappers

i think would do v well in either beat or lost-gen culture

i have no idea what flappers is/means here

Flappers = roaring 20s, prohibition, rise of organised crime, mass unemployment, beginnings of fascism

JAZZ

Well, yes, people knew how to enjoy themselves!

Flappers = roaring 20s, prohibition, rise of organised crime, mass unemployment, beginnings of fascism

Mass unemployment?

mass unemployment = 1929-onward iirc

I forgot the Wall Street Crash!

also, beginnings of fascism is a no go

things were very chill until oct 1929

Errrrrrrrrrrrrr, Mussolini?

well yeah on a global scale but the us didnt start getting really nutso politically until the 30s afaik

Where is "Space Hopper Spangles Double Deckers Year Zero What Was That All About Eh Eh?" band?

Mussolini was elected in '22.

Dinosaurs or the future. Fuck olden people.

mussolini also had fuck all to do w/ flappers

Oh I'm sure he had an interest in them

Flappers are mostly an Anglo-American phenomenon.

Havana just before the revolution

june 7 2001

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Continent-Europes-Twentieth-Century/dp/067975704X

Oh I'm sure he had an interest in them

Benny's 'interest':

http://www.nndb.com/people/181/000057010/petacci-port.jpg

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Valley-Panorama-1930s/dp/0224060384/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210777733&sr=8-1

how the fuck dark can europe get

hot damn, way better taste than adolph xps

the story that the Slugs of Time are doing this week involves time travel:

- a woman introduces our protagonist to a time machine sitting in the center of the room
- she asks how many years into the future he'd like to go
- he says "1000"
- she's like, OK, here we go!
- he opens the blinds and everything looks exactly the same, he's like "what gives"
- she replies that it wasn't just the room that travelled forward 1000 years, but the whole city as well - in fact, the entire universe has travelled forward 1000 years in time

Well I imagine Benito actually had sex with his g/f (xp)

Oh yeah, Frogman, that's what I was trying to find originally.

Haha, Mike, she keeps popping up in various books I have read, much like Maria Muldaur in a 60s memoir.

1940, grab a bunch of super-rare comic books, come back and get all ebay millionaire.

hot damn, way better taste than adolph xps

Margherita Sarfatti

so much greed, so little curiousity about the human condition xp

Ha, I was also going to say, go back to the roaring 20's, raid the vaults of paramount, vitagraph, fox ect and bring a bunch of film reels back, you'd never get rich off of that, but it wd be super cool for people to see a Theda Bara film, Murnau's "4 devils", "Battle Cry of Peace", all of "Gold Diggers of Broadway", "Flaming Youth" etc etc etc drone drone drone lists like 100+ old movies

How much do you think the first dildo would fetch on e-bay?

Where is "Space Hopper Spangles Double Deckers Year Zero What Was That All About Eh Eh?" band?

-- Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 15:00 (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Waiting at Mars factory for the Marathons to come back out!

so much greed, so little curiousity about the human condition xp

-- deeznuts, Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:15 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Where have you been that you don't understand greed = the human condition?

^^

Haha, Mike, she keeps popping up in various books I have read, much like Maria Muldaur in a 60s memoir.

I am very good friends with her nephew.

Man, fuck a dinosaur unless I can have an airtight tank to travel in. I mean, yeah, great, ecotourism and shit, but those motherfuckers would think ONE thing when they see my pale, unarmored ass - LUNCHTIME.

I would totally go for Italian Renn, or Flappers, or distant third of Byzantium

Only slightly higher on my No Fucking Way list would be the following:

Athens & Sparta defeat Persians (I saw 300 - I ain't got the abs to hang)
Incas/Mayans/Aztecs (I would be killed in a nanosecond)
Spaniards in the New World (See entry just above)
Viking Rape (To them, I would look like a slightly mannish woman)

Something Roman probably, within that I don't know enough to be picky.

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Dinosaurs, but from a helicopter

WILL the dianasours eat me: y/n

Also can I meet T-Rex and Utahraptor and will I get stomped?

you are safe in this imaginary scenario.

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Hahaha - my Grandad would have been born around 1900, and I still remember how he perked up at seeing some retro act dressed-up as flappers on TV in the mid-seventies. That'll be me seeing a Siouxie clone on the holo-deck in the 2030's.

Beats would be the worst people to smoke doobs with if you're looking for a fun time

think i voted for enlightenment? bah, can't remember.

I missed the poll, but why did nobody vote for Mongol conquest? Seriously? (Of course, I see myself on the Mongol side of this.)