Time Machine

[Brendan]

If they ever invent time travel surely someone would have come back and told us about it.

[TillieTrotter]

They're the people that we sling into Maudsley Brendan. We think they're mad but.......!

[Brendan]

God dam futureman, time-traveling, freeloaders living off our taxes!

[East Dulwich Angst]

I also think that you should not be limited to one period of the past or future. You are able to do something like the following:

Go watch the 1966 World Cup Final, then pop off for dinner with King Arthur, go to the Sydney Olympics, eat a Brontosaurus steak, come back to today and tell your mates about what you have seen and then go to Woodstock.

[downsouth]

Reminds me of that South Park episode with the 'Goobacks' who come to the past and aren't welcome - hilarious. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobacks

[Keef]

Would be tempted to try and stop the Kennedy assasination, just to see if America would still have ended up so f**ked up.

[PeckhamRose]

1) I'd like to have gone back to two days ago when I would have dialled 999 when I suspected the English sounding voice coming from my upstairs neighbours were not my neighbours who are actually Eastern Europeans. I would also have waited for him, the burglar there at the time, to come out. Then the police would have possibly caught him.

2) I'd like to go forward to get the lottery numbers but hey - that's silly. Then given heaps of money to my neighbours who had everything taken.

3) I'd like to go back and done something to prevent Tony Blair getting in power despite the joy in 1997 when he did so. Everything's gone wrong with spin and target league table culture. So may have had to have done something there.

4) I'd see myself a year before I die. If I am ill, I'll know to kill myself to prevent the year's agony for those who love me. If I am not ill I will suspect I should possibly die all of a sudden, so I shall carry on trying to enjoy life.

Of course, today may BE a year before I die. Heyyy, who started this topic.

I'll get me coat...

[East Dulwich Angst]

You can only go one way PeckhamRose

[citizenED]

I would go back to Manhattan in the 1950s/60s and hand around with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and the other Abstract Expressionists

Citizen

[????]

To next Sunday - get a paper

Do the lottery, pools, the best priced outsider at evvery betting shop, go through the card at every meeting on saturday, and a few similar bets, retire on New Year's Eve

[LostThePlot]

???? Wrote:

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> retire on New Year's Eve

With all that money you think you'd at least stay up to welcome the new year in.....

[LostThePlot]

Brendan Wrote:

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> I would go back to a time before I was conceived

> and kill my father. Just to see what would happen.

>

> (sorry dad)

So it coudl be argued that he's not actually your dad anyway, as you killed him you would not be here to go back... Time to raise some awkward questions with your mum then....sorry! :-)

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

That's all a bit oedipal!

[Jah Lush]

I'd like to go back to the early 1960s to see people like the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Yardbirds and the Small Faces at the places like the Crawdaddy Club and Eel Pie Island and the Marquee Club.

Although I was around at that time I was only a nipper and obviously far too young to go to such places but seeing those bands up close in a hot sweaty club must have been amazing.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I think I'd like to go 20 years into the future and swot up on everything that had happened in those 20 years. Then I'd go back to present day and start spouting prophesies so i would be worshipped and could take over the world. Nyaahahahaa (evil laugh).

[PeckhamRose]

Oh, excuse me, like this is A SERIOUS OPTION!

I have just been watching Dr Who. It's realistic, is it not.

East Dulwich Angst Wrote:

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> You can only go one way PeckhamRose

[Alan Dale]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> My legs will have shrivelled-up, as will my left

> arm... My right arm will

> have lost all it's fingers, save for the one that

> clicks on the mouse.

Arms *Bob*?!

*Bob* Wrote:

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> And actually I do have prosthetic arms so I find

> you comment in very poor taste, Alan.

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,23160,23223,quote=21#REPLY

[Brendan]

LostThePlot Wrote:

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> Brendan Wrote:

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> -----

> > I would go back to a time before I was

> conceived

> > and kill my father. Just to see what would

> happen.

> >

> > (sorry dad)

>

> So it coudl be argued that he's not actually your

> dad anyway, as you killed him you would not be

> here to go back... Time to raise some awkward

> questions with your mum then....sorry! :-)

Ok just to negate any confusion over suppressed aggression towards my parents or my possible parentage I would leave my poor old dad alone and go backwards a few days and kill myself. Just to see how the old space-time continuum would handle it.

If the entire universe ceases to have ever existed and god packs his bags for warmer climes well? sorry but at least I can say it was my fault. If indeed I had ever existed to cause anything to be blamed for and if cause and effect (which are critically realisable on time) still existed (of course concepts like ?still? and ?existed? would mean nothing as would ?meaning?)

Although I suspect it isn?t all so simple.