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Tue Sep-30-03 06:01 PM
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If somehow you could go back in time, which three |
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My choices:
1. Thomas Jefferson 2. Michaelangelo 3. Mozart
If you want to list more than three, please feel free to do so.
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Tue Sep-30-03 06:06 PM
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1. Jesus of Nazareth 2. Beethoven 3. Abraham Lincoln
I've limited myself to these three. I'm sad that there is not a woman on the list, however. :-(
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1. Teddy Roosevelt, one of my favorite presidents, who'd be considered a tree hugging hippie by today's neo-cons.
2. Mozart, if just to hear him play, as he was known to be the original grumpy old man.
3. George Washington, just to tell him Generals still run for President 200+ years after he did! :)
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Tue Sep-30-03 07:21 PM
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wouldn't mind meeting him. I read some stuff about him and he appeared to be an interesting man.
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Tue Sep-30-03 06:07 PM
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I mean, do I just say hi, or do I get to kill them? :evilgrin: That'd change the list.
For a purely pacifist journey, though,
(1) Leonardo (if I had a chance to learn Italian first),
(2) Jesus (if I could learn Aramaic, I mean what a story!)
(3) Bobby Kennedy (speaks for itself, I think)
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Tue Sep-30-03 07:22 PM
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25. Da Vinci is a great choice and so is RFK!! |
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Tue Sep-30-03 06:09 PM
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4. The Prophets Jesus and Muhammed . Harriet Tubman |
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Tue Sep-30-03 06:10 PM
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5. Jesus, Buddha and John Coltrane |
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Tue Sep-30-03 06:14 PM
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John Coltrane would have been a fascinating interview as well!
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Tue Sep-30-03 06:17 PM
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8. I hear that there's a church in S.F. that has Coltrane |
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as its patron saint. True?
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Tue Sep-30-03 06:46 PM
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Tue Sep-30-03 06:48 PM
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15. Jesus, Buddah and Mohammed Say The Same Things |
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Come to think of it, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, the Pope, whatever sect of Christian God you believe in and both Mohammed and Buddah believe and preach the same thing...don't know about Coltrane though....
For all I know, Will Pitt will come out of Europe as a Lutheran, Muslim or as a permanent, rabid Liberal given the way things work over there and don't here.
I'm looking forward to his insights and opinions and never mind the dart games he's lost across the "Continent...."
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Tue Sep-30-03 06:13 PM
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6. Jesus, Buddha, Lao-Tse |
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and runners up would be Plato, Kamehameha, Akhnaten, Einstein, and my paternal grandfather, who died long before I was born.
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Tue Sep-30-03 06:25 PM
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JFK FDR Eleanor Roosevelt
They're all really cool people, and i'd love to have a meal with the Roosevelts. lol Duckie
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Tue Sep-30-03 07:24 PM
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26. I like Eleanor Roosevelt too. |
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Nikoli Telsa (unrestrained electrical genius), Leonardo DaVinci (politically aware genius/engineer/artist...he got away with it with it during the restrictive times) and....
Bob Hope and/or Jack Benny. They both had a sense of timing par none and directed their humor to where "they" were the butt of the jokes.
I've got about 10 others, but I can't think of DaVinci and Franklin without wondering if they were thinking about the same thing and working toward the same goal 5 centuries apart.
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Tue Sep-30-03 06:31 PM
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Da Vinci Elizabeth I Emily Dickinson and Jules Verne would be one hell of a dinner party!
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Tue Sep-30-03 07:25 PM
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27. WOOOHOOO Rowdy!! I hope I get an invite to that party!! |
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Tue Sep-30-03 06:36 PM
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12. Jesus, Buddha and Leonardo da Vinci |
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Sokrates, Da Vinci and Edgar Allen Poe.
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Tue Sep-30-03 07:25 PM
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28. I love Poe!! I have to agree with that one Jonte! |
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Tue Sep-30-03 06:49 PM
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16. Elvis, John Lennon, and Stevie Ray Vaughn |
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Come, we jam now....
Actually, too many people to list.
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Tue Sep-30-03 06:59 PM
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17. Christopher Marlowe, Jesus of Nazareth, Oscar Levant... |
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all three were known for their dinner table conversation
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Tue Sep-30-03 07:04 PM
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18. Jesus, Thurgood Marshall and Hammuarabi |
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Jesus (and that's not just the good Presbyterian boy in me talking...lol)
Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall
Hammurabi
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Tue Sep-30-03 07:06 PM
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19. Thomas Jefferson,Michael Collins,Jack Ruby |
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The only reason Ruby is on there is that I have a few questions I'd like answered before I die.
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Tue Sep-30-03 07:22 PM
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24. Collins how I could forget |
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dont forget Daniel O'Connell.
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Tue Sep-30-03 07:26 PM
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30. LOL!!! I wonder if Ruby would fess up Siobhan? |
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Tue Sep-30-03 07:14 PM
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20. Emannuel Kant, Josephine Baker, W.B. Yeats, Paul A.M. Dirak |
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Jesus, The Apostle Peter, Siddhartha, Tashunca-uitco (Crazy Horse of the Lakota Souix), Marius, St. Ignatius Loyala.
I'm sure as soon as I post this, at least 6 more will come to mind.
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Tue Sep-30-03 07:17 PM
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21. Richard Nixon....Julius Ceasar.....Adolph Hitler |
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1. Jesus Christ 2. FDR 3. RFK
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Tue Sep-30-03 07:26 PM
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29. Jesus, Gandhi, Jung, Susan B. Anthony, Emma Goldman, Abigail Adams |
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Tue Sep-30-03 08:15 PM
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34. Abigail Adams is a good choice.... |
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My best friend and I were talking about this post, and she mentioned her. Then she sent me the letter she sent her husband about women's rights...it was poet and very ahead of it's time. She was a wonderful woman. "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could." —Abigail Adams Duckie
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Wed Oct-01-03 08:28 AM
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50. Yes, Abigail was quite a woman! |
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Tue Sep-30-03 07:31 PM
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31. Well Albert Camus, of course |
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And maybe Cleopatra and James Joyce? Wouldn't it be fun to meet those three for coffee at an outdoor cafe in Paris? Fodder for another thread - which three historical figures would you invite over for coffee? Am also partial to Da Vinci, Marco Polo and Ernest Hemingway.
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Wed Oct-01-03 08:29 AM
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51. That is a good idea WWW!! Why not start a thread. I |
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will surely respond to it! :-)
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Lady Jane Grey, Vincent Van Gogh, Bobby Kennedy
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1. Alexander the Great 2. Pharaoh Hatsheptsut (sp?) 3. Empress Jingo
I'm an ancient history nut, what can I say? :) Course being a dork I would probably try to cram them all in a phone booth and feed them pudding.
"Dude, it's a most excellent snack!"
Edited to add: I would also love to sit down for a cup of tea with Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley.
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Tue Sep-30-03 08:28 PM
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Great post Chovexani- Now I wanna go out and rent it.
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Tue Sep-30-03 08:41 PM
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36. Nassar-Egypt, King Hussein-Jordan, Assad-Syria |
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1967, talk them out of starting a war with Israel (yes, I know, it can be disputed who started what)but still. Before that, Plato, Camus, Ella. Now, I'd like to ask Saddam, "What the hell were you thinking?" about the Kurds.
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Tue Sep-30-03 08:42 PM
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The Marquis de Sade Eleanor Roosevelt Pope Joan (I do think she existed)
And if Pope Joan did not exist, I'd like to meet William Blake.
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Tue Sep-30-03 09:57 PM
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38. Great question, I'll remember 35 people I should |
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have listed when I wake up in the morning.
anyway,
1. Lew Welch (S.F. poet)
2. My great, great grandfather (Carpenter Pete)
3. Ken Kesey (Merry Prankster)
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Tue Sep-30-03 10:08 PM
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39. Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Wilhelm Leibniz, AND also... |
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James Joyce, Beethoven, and Charlie Parker.
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Wed Oct-01-03 08:31 AM
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52. Beethoven is another great choice! |
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Tue Sep-30-03 11:36 PM
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40. Taliesin. Samuel Clemens. Benjamin Franklin. |
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Jesus. Buddha. Adam and Eve. White Buffalo Calf Woman
Georgia O'Keefe. Victoria Woodhull. Sojourner Truth.
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Wed Oct-01-03 08:32 AM
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53. I agree with Samuel Clemens and Ben Franklin. |
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76. Fascinating individuals, aren't they? |
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And Hitler...in fact I'd like to mediate the debate.
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John Adams (although I'd probably not get a word in edgewise)
John LeCarre' (one of my favorite authors)
Winston Churchill (his impact on the 20th Century is huge)
edit: late night keyboard errors
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Wed Oct-01-03 08:33 AM
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54. Churchill....another great choice! |
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my great grandpa, John Scott of County Tyrone, Ireland
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Wed Oct-01-03 12:18 AM
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44. Jesus' mom, Hypatia, and Bloody Bill Anderson |
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Wed Oct-01-03 02:17 AM
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45. There are so many possibilities! |
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Edited on Wed Oct-01-03 02:31 AM by Piltdown13
But, off the top of my head right now:
1. Dorothy Garrod (pioneering prehistoric archaeologist; worked in the Middle East in the early 1900s)...or maybe Mary Leakey
2. Queen Elizabeth I
3. Lorenzo de Medici...or maybe Leonardo da Vinci (one of those Renaissance guys, anyhow!)
How about "prehistorical" figures? I'd love to go back about 40,000 years and talk to a Neandertal and a modern human of the time, in an area where the two groups would have been in contact. It would also be great to meet one of the artists who painted Lascaux, Chauvet, etc. Pushing the envelope even further, it would be fascinating to go back two and a half million years and observe the very first stone toolmaker.
:-)
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Wed Oct-01-03 02:25 AM
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46. Technically non-historical figures |
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The first Cro-Magnon
The first religious believer
The founder of Ur
As for historical:
Benjamin Franklin (if only to show him QuarkXpress!)
Augustus Caesar
Eleanor of Aquitaine
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1. Ned Kelly (An Australian bush ranger who is now an Aussie icon) 2. Judy Garland 3. Ghandi 4. JFK
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Wed Oct-01-03 08:35 AM
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55. Gandhi and JFK are great choices! |
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Wed Oct-01-03 05:20 AM
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48. Two Johns And A Patsy |
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Lennon Cash Cline
:evilgrin: dbt
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Wed Oct-01-03 10:28 AM
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57. It would be fun to meet John Lennon! n/t |
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1. Sacajeweya 2. Anne Bolyne 3. Jesus 4. Harriet Tubman 5. Virginia Dare 6. Ben Franklin 7. Mark Twain
not necessarily in this order Jenn
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Wed Oct-01-03 08:43 AM
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1.) Jesus Christ. - And hopefully I would remember to bring a tape recorder, since I take really crappy notes.
2) Elvis Presley. - I would tell him to go easy on the fried Peanut Butter & Banana sandwiches and not to put too much trust in his doctors.
3) Prescott Bush. - First I would make sure the guy never made certain "foreign investments. Then I would knock the bastard out and have a doctor perform a vasectomy on him while he was still unconscious :evilgrin:
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Wed Oct-01-03 10:35 AM
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59. Ben Franklin, Thomas Eddison, Groucho Marx |
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Wed Oct-01-03 11:24 AM
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60. Groucho is an interesting choice! |
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Wed Oct-01-03 11:41 AM
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62. I figured he'd loosen things up a bit. |
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I imagine Ben would be pretty lively. But Edison, as much as I admire him would be on the serious side. Hence, the Groucho pick.
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67. He would probably steal the show!! |
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Wed Oct-01-03 11:29 AM
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61. Jesus, Woodrow Wilson and DeWitt |
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Jesus because I'm a Christian, Wilson because I'm a historian specializing in his life and Presidency, and Dewitt (forgot first name but he was GM of the Reds in 1965) so I could warn him not to (BLEEPING) trade Frank Robinson to the Os!!!
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Wed Oct-01-03 11:56 AM
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63. before I head back in time |
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I would need these three things:
1. A translator that speaks all of the languages I need, or it won't do any good to meet these people. :-)
2. All my shots. They had scary diseases back then!
3. A brown bag lunch. Need safe food!
Ok, now that I am prepared, I would like to meet:
1. Da Vinci, so I can ask him what joke he cracked to make Mona Lisa smile.
2. Mona Lisa, because I bet her side of the story differs. :-)
3. Abigail Adams, because she was a lively letter writer, with an engaging wit, outspoken, and many other things women were not supposed to be in 18th century America (or anywhere). Surely, she was an amazing and insightful conversationalist.
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Wed Oct-01-03 11:59 AM
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64. Excellent 444th post! |
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Mona Lisa, because I bet her side of the story differs
Didn't I read somewhere that DaVinci was the model for the Mona Lisa?
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Wed Oct-01-03 11:59 AM
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65. Id have to go back as a MAN |
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No WAY would I want to go back as a woman during any of those men's eras! Id be shot for insubordination........!
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Wed Oct-01-03 12:11 PM
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66. Charles Mingus, Vladimir Horowitz, Joe Meek |
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After, much thought, here's my list (with my reasoning for each):
1. Jesus of Nazareth (I'd like to know what his REAL teachings were, not the perverted, mutilated "translation" that survives today)
2. Socrates (Come on, it would be fun to get into a philosophical discussion with one of the most famous philosophers of all time)
3. Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby (The same reason for both: I really wanna know the true story behind the JFK assasination, and I'm not sure who the better man to ask would be).
Honorable Mentions: Teddy Roseevelt, DaVinci, Plato, Buddha, Gandhi, John Lennon, John Locke.
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Fri Oct-03-03 12:49 AM
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70. Without cheatin' & lookin'... |
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1. Jesus 2. Gandhi 3. Marilyn Monroe
(All thought and no play makes Sapphocrat a dull girl.)
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Fri Oct-03-03 12:51 AM
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72. Marc Blitstein, Albert Einstein, and Charles Schultz but... |
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dammit...no room for Emma Goldman, Mozart, Groucho Marx, Kubli Khan, Shauna Grant, GG Allin, Sacho and Vanzetti and the Rosenbergs (to apologise), Ghandi, Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, John Kennedy...
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1. Samuel Colt 2. Eugene Stoner 3. Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov
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Fri Oct-03-03 02:10 AM
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74. Hitler, Emperor Norton, Oscar Wilde |
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Fri Oct-03-03 07:11 AM
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75. Archimedes, to tell him, make more copies of |
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" The Method " and get them widely distributed so as to avoid the
age of faith/dark ages. Also if you hear the Romans are in town leave quickly.
Maybe Einstein, but if the meeting with Archimedes goes well the theory
of relativity might have already been discovered several hundred years
sooner.
Still a hint to pay more attention in math when they cover curved objects and keep that atomic bomb gizmo concept to yourself.
Nero to say stick with paganism & ditch the christian idea. Hopefully this will not only prevent the holocaust but most of the other killing done in the name of some deity.
James Madison to say you are right about that opulent minority idea and please do all you can to stop it.
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