looney2ns
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posted on February 5, 2001 05:25:51 PM new
If you could go back in time to any place on earth,strictly as an observer,not to change history,where and when would you go?I would go two places.
1)Pre-civil war south to see the plantations,furniture and cooking methods.
2)Poland 1900,to see why my grandparents had to run away to the United States to get married.
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VeryModern
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posted on February 5, 2001 05:34:45 PM new
I would rather observe the future!
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bearmom
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posted on February 5, 2001 05:36:23 PM new
Me, too-I'd like to travel to Saturday night, when this move will be over!
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looney2ns
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posted on February 5, 2001 05:42:08 PM new
I think history is facinating .but maybe Im just a nerd!
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snowyegret
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posted on February 5, 2001 05:48:57 PM new
Athens so I could ask Socrates a question
And I'd like to go back to when the Great Pyramid was built so I could see how it was done.
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looney2ns
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posted on February 5, 2001 05:54:16 PM new
just think of all the things that we can only speculate on.what about stonehenge?
[ edited by looney2ns on Feb 5, 2001 05:55 PM ]
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snowyegret
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posted on February 5, 2001 06:02:35 PM new
And Easter Island!!!
And go to the stars on a spaceship (I always wanted to go on a spaceship)
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inside
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posted on February 5, 2001 06:32:54 PM new
I would like to go back and see the signing of the Constitution.
Even earlier, I'd like to see America as the pioneers saw it.
Earlier than that, I'd like to the continents before they seperated.
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femme
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posted on February 5, 2001 07:05:08 PM new
Assuming my time machine was very reliable and would bring me back to all of the comforts I've come to rely on  ...
I would like to go back to the late 1700s to Austria and Germany to observe the geniuses, Mozart and Beethoven, create their masterpieces.
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Good question, looney2ns.
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therpowen
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posted on February 5, 2001 07:28:35 PM new
Just as an observer?
First I'd like to witness the birth of the universe first hand.
Aside from that I'd like to visit Katherine the Great in her stables.
therp
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barbarake
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posted on February 5, 2001 07:45:58 PM new
I'm not particularly interested in going *back* but would love to go *forward*. I want to see what the world will be like in a few hundred years.
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Kaffro
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posted on February 5, 2001 07:49:12 PM new
Ok, I'd like to go back to sit with Betsy Ross while she made the first American Flag and ask her to make an extra so I could sell on ebay today LOL!
Kaffro 
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barrybarris
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posted on February 5, 2001 09:12:41 PM new
I don't need to go back very far. I'd pick the time when The Playboy Mansion was at it's peak. All those Bunnies everywhere, all those cute Bunny tails, the sex, the parties, the sex, the parties, the sex, the parties...
Barry (did I mention the sex and the parties) Barris
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bunnicula
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posted on February 5, 2001 09:34:44 PM new
I'd go back to Elizabethan England & watch the first performances of each of Shakespeare's plays.
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snowyegret
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posted on February 6, 2001 05:55:47 AM new
bunnicula, that's a good one! And find out who really wrote them?
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Meya
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posted on February 6, 2001 06:05:30 AM new
I would love to go back and attend the Gettysburg Address by President Lincoln.
Also the Exodus of the Children of Israel out of Egypt.
I would love to see the Pre-Civil War south as well.
And while I was time bouncing, I'd stop in at the signing of the Declaration of Independance, and the day World War II was over.
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xardon
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posted on February 6, 2001 09:49:30 AM new
Well, the first thing I'd do is give old OJ a hand in finding the "real killers". The man appears to be having absolutely no luck on his own. Then I think I'd head back to that grassy knoll in Dallas and just look around a bit. Old London to check out the Ripper would be next.
Of course I'd want to see some real miracles. so the Middle East would be a must stop on the trip planner. Loaves and Fishes for lunch sounds good. That ark thing might be fun, too.
And, oh yes, the Pre-colombian civilizations, Maya and Aztec, for the holidays. A bit gruesome, I'm sure, but think of the videos. I might even be able to pick up a codex or two to sell on eBay.
When do we leave?
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bearmom
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posted on February 6, 2001 02:32:00 PM new
Xardon has a good idea-could we take our camera with us on this trip? Think of the historical significance of documented evidence of the parting of the Red Sea, of Lazarus, of what really happened to those two princes in the tower of London!
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bunnicula
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posted on February 6, 2001 05:17:00 PM new
snowyegret: I already know that: Shakespeare
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snowyegret
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posted on February 6, 2001 05:33:54 PM new
To debunk the Bacon theory!
(And I'd really like to see the Tempest)
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bunnicula
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posted on February 6, 2001 05:44:30 PM new
Snowyegret: the highlights for me would be Othello and King Lear--my two favorite plays from the Bard
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looney2ns
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posted on February 6, 2001 05:52:47 PM new
these are great ideas!
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Powerhouse
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posted on February 6, 2001 06:31:05 PM new
I'd like to go back and witness Alexander Graham Bell when he made his first breakthrough on the invention of the telephone.
Seems I recall that he spilled battery acid on his hand and said something to the effect of 'Elisha! Come quick! I need you' and was heard by his assistant over the phone.
(Edited to add the assistants name now that I recall it.)
[ edited by Powerhouse on Feb 6, 2001 06:33 PM ]
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snowyegret
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posted on February 6, 2001 07:08:57 PM new
Othello is great! ah, they're all great! But I love Prospero's line "and I'll drown my book"
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ubiedaman
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posted on February 6, 2001 09:01:42 PM new
LOL the Stables...good one therp!!!!
As for me...put me on the Lewis and Clark expidition...makes space exploration look like kids play. ( at least astronauts have an idea of their final destination!)
Keith
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
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bearmom
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posted on February 6, 2001 09:26:25 PM new
On the trail west with the early settlers-but only until time for a potty break. No going behind a bush for me!
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therpowen
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posted on February 6, 2001 09:49:00 PM new
Gee, Bearmom, I don't see any reason why you couldn't stay in front of the bush if you really want to!
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