If you had a time machine...

[Aaron]

When and Where would you go?

(assume you travel in your present physical condition, your safety is assured, and your stay is only for a few days)

Befitting my avatar, I could see myself going to San Francisco in the late 1960's to check out the music scene, along with all the hippies. Or Swinging London of the mid 1960's.

Going further back, I've always found Ben Franklin era Philadelphia an interesting time.

The future... too scary. :icon_eek:

 

[MAJ Badmotherfarker]

I was watching Karate Kid last night and was thinking that 1984 looked pretty good. I can handle being 11 again.

 

[MAJ Badmotherfarker]

And for any of you that are philosophical about getting older:


Robert Frost: Swinger of Birches
66. Birches. Robert Frost. Modern American Poetry

 

[xan_user]

Id go see;
Billie Holiday at Café Society,
Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall,
Coltrane at the village vanguard,
Janis Joplin at the Avalon Ballroom,
Santana at Woodstock,
Hendrix at Monterrey,
Sir Isaac Hayes at Wattstax and
Bob Marley in Kingston.( Smile Jamaica Concert -Two days after his failed, first assassination attempt.)

 

[semipenguin]

I would love to see the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the last true Kingdom to rule the whole known world

 

[HecticArt]

I'm thinking:
Katie - December 1998
Lori - anytime between 1988 and 1997
Jen - September 1995
Janet - Summer 1992
Lynne - Summer 1986
Michelle - June 1984

Not quite the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, but some things are worth disrupting the time space continuum over. . . .

 

[Jon]

General Events:
JFK Inauguration Speech.
Martin Luther King 'I have a Dream' Speech.
The Kennedy-Nixon Debates.
The End of World War II.


Music:
Miles Davis - 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival.
The Allman Brothers at the Fillmore Auditorium.
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - Cobo Hall, Detroit for the Live Bullet concert.
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
Woodstock.


Sports
Lou Gherig's Last Game.
Pete Rose breaking Ty Cobb's Record.
The Shot heard round the world (The Giants Win the Pennant! The Giants Win the Pennant!)

I'm sure I'll think of more.

 

[hyson]

1978 buying all of these people a beer...

 

[Casual Fan]

30 AD, modern-day Israel. I'm getting the truth on this Jesus guy once and for all.

Runner up: Sometime during the Cretaceous Period in the present-day American west. I want to see what a Tyranosaurus Rex looked like.

Third place: Jen, September 1995, so I can steal HecticArt's piece of tail.

 

[Casual Fan]

1978 buying all of these people a beer...

F*ck that--invest, you fool! Invest!

 

[Jon]

F*ck that--invest, you fool! Invest!

No sh*t.

 

[memebag]

I'd sight see all over history, but now is the best time I've ever experienced.

 

[AZDude]

Sure id travel a few years in the past. But what I would really do is travel into the FUTURE! Anywhere from 1 to 1000+ years to see the progress of man kind.

 

[Sirius Rich]

I'd like to go back and spend time with my father for sure. Didn't do enough of that when I could.

 

[hyson]

F*ck that--invest, you fool! Invest!

Well, the beer would lead to a substantial share of the business. Why invest in stock when one could own part of the company.

 

[HecticArt]

30 AD, modern-day Israel. I'm getting the truth on this Jesus guy once and for all.

Runner up: Sometime during the Cretaceous Period in the present-day American west. I want to see what a Tyranosaurus Rex looked like.

Third place: Jen, September 1995, so I can steal HecticArt's piece of tail.

Offsides brother! Offsides!
And she was closer to second place.

 

[HecticArt]

Well, the beer would lead to a substantial share of the business. Why invest in stock when one could own part of the company.

Go back and get them all laid! They would have made you CEO.
Think bigger. Aim for their junk.

 

[kingchuck69]

I would go back to when I was a senior in high school and tell myself not to take that girl I met over the phone to the prom. Sadly, I'm still paying the price mentally because of it.

 

[TimTimSalabim]

1978 buying all of these people a beer...

At first glance, I thought this might be the Weather Underground. Had me scared for a minute .

 

[TimTimSalabim]

I'm thinking:
Katie - December 1998
Lori - anytime between 1988 and 1997
Jen - September 1995
Janet - Summer 1992
Lynne - Summer 1986
Michelle - June 1984

Not quite the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, but some things are worth disrupting the time space continuum over. . . .

There's a Lou Bega song in there just waiting to be written..