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If you could travel through time...

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Achilleus, May 5, 2006.

  1. Achilleus

    Achilleus Member

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    What three things would you try to reverse, and also which century/ decade of lady ( or dude if that is your preference) would you like to do.

    Me:

    1. Stop the Hitlers from having sex and conceiving Hitler.
    2. Telling Abe Lincoln to sit on the other side of his wife.
    3. Telling Africans to fight until death to not get on boats to go to America.

    Obviously, the ramifications of these alterings would make the present much different ( and may make #2 moot, if I got #3 done first), so I'm not sure. As for the ladies, I think I would go with the 1920's. One word : flappers...

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  2. Invisible Fan

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    Give the inventor of the bra an accident.
     
  3. FranchiseBlade

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    I would try and change the idea that Slavery was ok. 1500's

    I would try and change the idea that anti-semitism was ok. Pretty much any time in history would work, but especially in the early 1900's-1930's.

    The period in time I would go back to for the ladies, would be the early 1600's France.
     
  4. Cesar^Geronimo

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    You do realize that the level of hygiene we take for granted is really a recent change.
     
  5. Austin70

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    True, no trimming and a lot less washing.

    I would like to go back to the times of Jesus and spend so time following him through the lands.
     
  6. jo mama

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    you might want to go back a little further - see exodus/moses/heston
     
  7. A-Train

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    Didn't the Africans sell their own people to the Europeans? I heard this somewhere and always wondered if it was true.
     
  8. jo mama

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    my goal would be to try and save knowledge from ancient cultures.

    i would prevent the library in alexandria from being burned.
    i would have stopped the spanish conquistadors from burning all the mayan libraries.
    as a child growing up in texas i always dreamed about going back in time to the alamo with a machine gun and alot of bullets and a toby keith cd. i would have saved the alamo.

    oh yeah, i would also try to get it on with mary todd lincoln - she was quite a handsome lady!
     
  9. jo mama

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    yes. to euros and each other. the slave trade was alive and well in africa long before the euros got there.
     
  10. brentdapmp

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    I would have never gotten married to my wife
     
  11. AntiSonic

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    Awesome.

    I wouldn't try to change anything too far back in the past. I'd probably just try to avert 9/11 somehow... Like an anonymous tip to the airports, millitary, etc.

    Then I would high tail it to the 70s and get it on with the bellbottom-clad and afro-sporting beauties of the day.
     
  12. A-Train

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    I would go back to the Spring of 1995 and break the crack pipes of every dumbass that voted David Robinson MVP.

    I'd go back to January of 1993 and snipe Frank Reich with a dart full of Ketamine

    I'd go back to June of 1997 and give a nice stiff chop block to John Stockton
     
  13. Xerobull

    Xerobull ...and I'm all out of bubblegum

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    You really can't change anything that led up to your own existance or even your ability to travel through time. It would negate you being able to change time in the first place and destroy the space-time continum with a massive time paradox!!!

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    That said, I would travel back in time to whatever was the biggest winning lottery in the past few weeks, buy a ticket with the winning numbers, hide it somewhere where my future self would never think to look, come back, get the ticket and cash it in.
     
  14. Sishir Chang

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    After watching a lot of Sci-fi if I could travel through time I don't think I would change any major historical events. There's a lot of things I would like to change with my own life but I think I would leave history alone.
     
  15. BiGGieStuFF

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    Don't eat the damn apple!!
     
  16. Lil Pun

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    Yes but many were also captured too.
     
  17. pirc1

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    How about some simple things like buying a couple powerball tickets? or buying some microsoft stocks in the 80's?
     
  18. Lil Pun

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    Or energy stocks a few years ago.
     
  19. nyquil82

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    I'd go back in time and give George Bush Sr. the teenager the hardest kick in the nuts ever. That will either change history or make it possible for our current time to exist.
     
  20. ArtV

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    Me too. Though I think the disciples would cast me out as I probably couldn't stop saying - Do you KNOW who He is?

    And the look on a blind man's face when he can see. Gotta be priceless.
     

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