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Re: If You Could Escape into the Past . . .

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Thu 20 Dec 2007, 10:35:20

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1955 in San Francisco, California

I was born well after the whole hippie thing ended. Might be fun to see it first hand.

Might want to push that date back a bit Tyler. That would make you 12 during the Summer Of Love.
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Re: If You Could Escape into the Past . . .

Unread postby dinopello » Thu 20 Dec 2007, 11:26:44

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kylon', '3')5 million AD-


I would want to be inside a petting zoo for super advanced nuclear powered aliens(or later evolved creatures on this planet).

They could use their advanced technology to keep me alive indefinitely, and provide me with an ultra sexy clone mate they made for me.

Their goal would be to produce more of my kind in captivity and to study me extensively, as well as ask me questions about my primitive civilization.

They would keep me in a holodeck with all the food and water I could possibly want, a Hawaiian type environment, with alien veternarians who would check on my health regularly, and use their technology to regenerate my body as needed.

I'd come out six hours a day to perform tricks for them, for food and sex, and put on live sex shows so that alien parents could say "ooo, look kids, were witnessing the rare mating act of Homo Sapien Sapien", but in an alien language.

I would answer about questions concerning my past, and what I saw during the 21st century.

Now hows that for an idealic situation?


Now, that's a winner!

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Re: If You Could Escape into the Past . . .

Unread postby hubbertspeak7777777 » Thu 20 Dec 2007, 14:42:10

I would go to the 1930's... so I could have a tommy gun.
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Re: If You Could Escape into the Past . . .

Unread postby Tyler_JC » Thu 20 Dec 2007, 15:00:45

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1955 in San Francisco, California

I was born well after the whole hippie thing ended. Might be fun to see it first hand.

Might want to push that date back a bit Tyler. That would make you 12 during the Summer Of Love.


Oops, meant to write 1950.*

1955 fit into a scenario C that I started writing and gave up on when I realized it was dumb.
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Re: If You Could Escape into the Past . . .

Unread postby Tanada » Thu 20 Dec 2007, 21:01:12

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hubbertspeak7777777', 'I') would go to the 1930's... so I could have a tommy gun.


Join me in 1919 where you could mail order one for $12.75 from the Thompson company and I will hire you as my security guard ;)

It was the drive by shootings of the late 1920's that caused FFL laws to be passed in the first place, up until then it was no holds barred for the Second Amendment.

Actually you can have a Thompson today, but you have to have a class 3 or better Federal Firearms Liscence which is expensive and becones hard to keep during Democratic presidencies.
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Re: If You Could Escape into the Past . . .

Unread postby dunewalker » Fri 21 Dec 2007, 01:10:23

Excellent exercise, Heineken. I'll choose the turn of the 19th century, east coast of North America. For sure I'd have been on the Lewis & Clark Expedition across the continent in 1804-1806. The men and women on this adventure transcended the cultural constraints of the early Americans as well as those of the indigenous cultures they encountered in their journey. They experienced a rare freedom of movement. Subsequently, I'd do what one of their party, John Coulter did, remain in the wilderness as a mountain man and legend.
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Re: If You Could Escape into the Past . . .

Unread postby Heineken » Fri 21 Dec 2007, 11:23:59

Is that you in the avatar, dunewalker?

Looks like you got a piece of it, anyway . . .
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Re: If You Could Escape into the Past . . .

Unread postby hubbertspeak7777777 » Fri 21 Dec 2007, 16:13:24

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hubbertspeak7777777', 'I') would go to the 1930's... so I could have a tommy gun.


Join me in 1919 where you could mail order one for $12.75 from the Thompson company and I will hire you as my security guard ;)



Badass. I'm in.:twisted:
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Re: If You Could Escape into the Past . . .

Unread postby Pixie » Fri 21 Dec 2007, 17:01:06

I would not go. Screwed up as the world is today, and as much as I'd like some peace and quiet, I think my survival chances would be lower at pretty much any point in history or prehistory.

Well, now that I think about it, Polynesia prior to the arrival of human beings would be really, really nice! Or even better: New Zealand! Yeah! Don't worry--I won't hunt anything to extinction. I promise.
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