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This is an exercise in humility. If you could go back in time, and be given all the resources available, man power, funds and authority, what would you be able to do to improve or advance a society? For example, you know about metal, flight and engines. Do you know how to mine metals and make steel? Do you know how to build an engine, or crack oil to produce gasoline? A previous thread mentioned bringing soap back to the past. Do you know how to make soap? The examples could go on, but this is a fun exercise.
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I'd go back to the stoneage and make fire, because then I'd get all the babes.
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I like chicken
I like liver
Meow Mix, Meow Mix
Please de-liv-er
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Originally Posted by medicineman
A previous thread mentioned bringing soap back to the past. Do you know how to make soap?
Yup.
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Originally Posted by Lateralus
I'd go back to the stoneage and make fire, because then I'd get all the babes.
Fire? Is that it? As a moderator, you are held to a higher standard. I expect more.
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If I could go back in time, it would to meet Cody. That is while I was single. Who knows what would have happened.
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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I'd go tback in time to when Hitler was just trying to sell his lame art, and sniper his ass.
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Originally Posted by wdlove
If I could go back in time, it would to meet Cody. That is while I was single. Who knows what would have happened.
you are creepy man. i don't know how cody puts up with you.
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Originally Posted by wdlove
If I could go back in time, it would to meet Cody. That is while I was single. Who knows what would have happened.
Same thing that happened today, some poor bastard gets genetically defective children being rasied by a bat crazy mother.
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Barack Obama: Four more years of the Carter Presidency
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Originally Posted by Lateralus
I'd go back to the stoneage and make fire, because then I'd get all the babes.
Scare them away, more like.
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Originally Posted by Chuckit
Scare them away, more like.
And thus; The birth of The Chase.
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I like chicken
I like liver
Meow Mix, Meow Mix
Please de-liv-er
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^^ or Rape
i'd go back to the 1860's and serve as Lincoln's bodyguard. I'd bring a Kalashnikov with me and a copy of the gettysburg address.....you know to save Abe some time.
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seriously people, without modern life and tools/technologies at our side, we're mostly just stuck in the time we're placed.. what the hell would any of you provide them with that you could actually produce beyond an idea or concept?
soap's crap.
a ****ing wheel is all I'd be able to offer. sure hope where I go doesn't have it yet!
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Originally Posted by medicineman
Fire? Is that it? As a moderator, you are held to a higher standard. I expect more.
well that all depends on how far back in time you go, doesn't it?
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Stone age babes:
Have a field day.
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WDKerrigan sayz:
I would go back in time to meet Kerrigan and give him and iPod nano and then maybe he will let me lick his arsehole.
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I'd be as mercenary as I could be. I would go back and buy stock in the Haloid Corporation some time in the early 1950s, the Computing- Tabulating- Recording Company in the early 1920s, and a few others, plus a lot of dot-coms from the 1995-1998 timeframe. LOTS of stock. And I'd come back into the future and sell that stock in January 1999, spread out through the month so it wouldn't look like I had insider information-historical information isn't insider data, but why cause suspicion?
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I'd go back and try to be as cool as goRickey was.
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i'd go back in time to around midday today and stop the damn woman from reversing into the driver's side door of my car.
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Originally Posted by paul w
This book looks interesting. Thanks for the reference.
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