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re: If you could go back to anytime in history when would it be?
Posted on 10/25/23 at 2:30 pm to leeroyjenkins
Posted on 10/25/23 at 2:30 pm to leeroyjenkins
Leeroy posts this question constantly
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Posted on 10/25/23 at 2:45 pm to leeroyjenkins
Can we get multiple trips? I want to see a real life T-Rex; Gettysburg, Midway, etc.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 2:48 pm to leeroyjenkins
I know exactly when and where I would go for about a week's vacation.
When: Saturday Sept. 13 1964 to Sunday Sept. 20th, 1964.
Where: New Orleans, Biloxi, the Gulf Coast of Florida, and Baton Rouge.
-- Would get a rental car for the week, something nice and sporty like a Corvette or 1st year Mustang. A convertible if they have one.
-- Would drive ALL OVER New Orleans and Metairie seeing how things looked at that time, including the previous house in Old Metairie on the lot where I built my house in 1999-2000.
-- Would see the Beatles at Tad Gormley on Wednesday, Sept. 16th.
-- Would drive to Biloxi and rent or charter a boat, go out to the islands and see how they looked back then. Would also get a good look at the Mississippi Gulf Coast, especially my grandparents' homes pre-Camille (my memories are hazy as I was only 4 when it hit).
-- would go all the way to Pensacola, Ft. Walton, Destin, even where 30-A is today, to see how it all looked back then. Mid-September means water is still warm to swim in at the beach.
-- Would attend the season opener at Tiger Stadium (without any upper decks, just the lower bowl, and probably with wooden bleachers) and see LSU vs. Texas A&M on September 19th.
Before I went back , I would go on eBay and buy 2 or 3 pre-1964 $100 bills (currently on sale for about $136-$150 each) to take back with me. By money/price of living calculators, each would be equivalent to almost $1000 back then, giving me plenty of money to spend on the car rental, tickets, nice hotels and meals, etc. Would probably buy some era-appropriate casual clothes at D.H. Holmes or Maison Blanche to wear back then.
For ID back then, you can look up drivers licenses from back then and with today's computers, printers, and equipment you could fake one pretty easily. Many states back then did not have photo ID, in fact.
Here's just a couple of famous old ones from California at that time:
Would have to find out what was on the back, though...
When: Saturday Sept. 13 1964 to Sunday Sept. 20th, 1964.
Where: New Orleans, Biloxi, the Gulf Coast of Florida, and Baton Rouge.
-- Would get a rental car for the week, something nice and sporty like a Corvette or 1st year Mustang. A convertible if they have one.
-- Would drive ALL OVER New Orleans and Metairie seeing how things looked at that time, including the previous house in Old Metairie on the lot where I built my house in 1999-2000.
-- Would see the Beatles at Tad Gormley on Wednesday, Sept. 16th.
-- Would drive to Biloxi and rent or charter a boat, go out to the islands and see how they looked back then. Would also get a good look at the Mississippi Gulf Coast, especially my grandparents' homes pre-Camille (my memories are hazy as I was only 4 when it hit).
-- would go all the way to Pensacola, Ft. Walton, Destin, even where 30-A is today, to see how it all looked back then. Mid-September means water is still warm to swim in at the beach.
-- Would attend the season opener at Tiger Stadium (without any upper decks, just the lower bowl, and probably with wooden bleachers) and see LSU vs. Texas A&M on September 19th.
Before I went back , I would go on eBay and buy 2 or 3 pre-1964 $100 bills (currently on sale for about $136-$150 each) to take back with me. By money/price of living calculators, each would be equivalent to almost $1000 back then, giving me plenty of money to spend on the car rental, tickets, nice hotels and meals, etc. Would probably buy some era-appropriate casual clothes at D.H. Holmes or Maison Blanche to wear back then.
For ID back then, you can look up drivers licenses from back then and with today's computers, printers, and equipment you could fake one pretty easily. Many states back then did not have photo ID, in fact.
Here's just a couple of famous old ones from California at that time:
Would have to find out what was on the back, though...
Posted on 10/25/23 at 2:48 pm to BRich
1984
Posted on 10/25/23 at 2:53 pm to leeroyjenkins
I’ve often thought I was designed to be born in either around 1890 or 1920.
This post was edited on 10/25/23 at 2:53 pm
Posted on 10/25/23 at 2:58 pm to leeroyjenkins
1999 frozen in time. No smartphones, no social media, but enough technology to do what needed to get done. Social media has ruined human interaction.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 3:16 pm to castorinho
The year we strip mined you in the CFP? Bold move.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 3:16 pm to leeroyjenkins
March 2020. The beginning of the COVID stock market boom. I could easily make a few billion dollars (so could anyone that's been following the stock market closely for the past few years).
Posted on 10/25/23 at 3:28 pm to leeroyjenkins
The 70s were awful. A leading candidate for worst decade ever, aside from some classic rock n roll.
The 80s made up for it and then some. That’d be my pick.
The 80s made up for it and then some. That’d be my pick.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 3:33 pm to leeroyjenkins
1987
Posted on 10/25/23 at 3:39 pm to leeroyjenkins
quote:
I personally would go to Ancient Greece because they seemed very advanced
Did they have TP or AC?
Posted on 10/25/23 at 3:42 pm to leeroyjenkins
1982
Posted on 10/25/23 at 3:47 pm to greenbean
I'm pretty sure the Romans invented AC. I believe they'd drip water over slats in their windows to cool the incoming air.
As for the TP, there was a communal sponge on a stick to clean your arse in the public toilets.
Gotta build up that immune system, baw.
As for the TP, there was a communal sponge on a stick to clean your arse in the public toilets.
Gotta build up that immune system, baw.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 4:02 pm to LemmyLives
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I'm pretty sure the Romans invented AC. I believe they'd drip water over slats in their windows to cool the incoming air.
I'll stick with my central unit by Carrier.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 4:12 pm to leeroyjenkins
Man tough to choose 1. Ancient Greece/Rome, Old West, Ancient Egypt (Gotta see how those fkn pyramids were made), Revolutionary period.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 4:38 pm to leeroyjenkins
Garden of Eden and prevent Eve from picking that damn apple.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 4:41 pm to OysterPoBoy
Days of Rome. I want to meet Gen. Patton in his first life.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 5:27 pm to Truama_dawg
hey pal go eff urself i haven’t asked it yet
Posted on 10/25/23 at 5:29 pm to leeroyjenkins
The birth of Christ. I would get the goods on that and either confirm or deny it.
ETA: It would be interesting to be on that road where King John was confrronted and had to sign Magna Carta.
The US Declaration of Independence was one of the most glorious moments in man’s development.
The christening of the monument at Thermopylae that says:
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by
That here, obedient to her laws, we lie.
The defense of the Alamo would be a good one.
The Battle of Waterloo was so important in the history of freedom.
I would like to hear the speeches of Cicero, meet Alexander Hamilton, See Churchill in his underground bunker, and Joan of Arc lead her armies.
I would want to see Hannibal leading his army through the Pyranees and Scipio Africanus confront Hannibal in Africa.
ETA: It would be interesting to be on that road where King John was confrronted and had to sign Magna Carta.
The US Declaration of Independence was one of the most glorious moments in man’s development.
The christening of the monument at Thermopylae that says:
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by
That here, obedient to her laws, we lie.
The defense of the Alamo would be a good one.
The Battle of Waterloo was so important in the history of freedom.
I would like to hear the speeches of Cicero, meet Alexander Hamilton, See Churchill in his underground bunker, and Joan of Arc lead her armies.
I would want to see Hannibal leading his army through the Pyranees and Scipio Africanus confront Hannibal in Africa.
This post was edited on 10/25/23 at 7:17 pm
Posted on 10/25/23 at 5:31 pm to chryso
quote:
People always say that but it would be much better to go back and stop the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
No. You go back and kill the prophet Mohammed in the crib.
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