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Scott Alan Swaggerty

(324 posts)
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 12:13 PM 13 hrs ago

Fairly certain you could go back in time and teach cavemen germ theory, plate tectonics, and heliocentrism

Before you could convince anyone in the year 2004 that 22 years later Tiger Woods is getting DUIs and the reality TV show host guy has tanked the economy but is somehow seen as Jesus by like a quarter of the country.

They'd medicate you so fast your head would spin.

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Fairly certain you could go back in time and teach cavemen germ theory, plate tectonics, and heliocentrism (Original Post) Scott Alan Swaggerty 13 hrs ago OP
Unlike MAGAts and reality show watchers, cave men had fully functional human brains. RockRaven 13 hrs ago #1
and what medication, exactly, would they give you? ret5hd 11 hrs ago #2
I'm curious what the intake form would look like Scott Alan Swaggerty 9 hrs ago #3
Thorazine. Hugin 3 hrs ago #8
The only believable part is fujiyamasan 8 hrs ago #4
You'd definitely have to open with that Scott Alan Swaggerty 8 hrs ago #5
Not sure where Tiger Woods comes into this muriel_volestrangler 6 hrs ago #6
It's just he was still pretty big in 2004 Scott Alan Swaggerty 3 hrs ago #7
Man, the bingo card that actually won Arthur_Frain 2 hrs ago #9
Trump would have died in childhood Johonny 2 hrs ago #10
3. I'm curious what the intake form would look like
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 03:47 PM
9 hrs ago

"Patient is insistent that a reality TV host would devastate the world economy in the future"

Hugin

(37,842 posts)
8. Thorazine.
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 10:07 PM
3 hrs ago

Drip. Shuffle time.

Plus, the irony of giving a strong antipsychotic to the messenger would be profound.

muriel_volestrangler

(106,174 posts)
6. Not sure where Tiger Woods comes into this
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 06:39 PM
6 hrs ago

Semi-retired sports star drives under the influence of something? It's par for the course, so to speak.

Johonny

(26,159 posts)
10. Trump would have died in childhood
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 10:34 PM
2 hrs ago

Back in those days. There was a big mechanism weeding out stupid people.

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