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stef -> RE: If you had your very own tardis.What time period would you like to revisit? (1/22/2007 12:49:06 PM)

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ORIGINAL: CalliopePurple

Yeah, but birth control fails, stef.

Would you prefer forced abortions?

~stef



ToGiveDivine -> RE: If you had your very own tardis.What time period would you like to revisit? (1/22/2007 12:53:20 PM)

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ORIGINAL: stef

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ORIGINAL: CalliopePurple

Yeah, but birth control fails, stef.

Would you prefer forced abortions?

~stef


You could go back and shoot their parents, then it's just murder and not an abortion ;-)



LadyEllen -> RE: If you had your very own tardis.What time period would you like to revisit? (1/22/2007 1:42:12 PM)

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ORIGINAL: ToGiveDivine

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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

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ORIGINAL: seekstofasn8adom

Me i'd love to go back to the English cival war,and i'd love to step back in time to see both of my folks to see what they were like when they were alot younger.Also i'd love to pop back to the 40's to see it for myself,to see how people lived even if it's only for 5 minutes,the experience would last with me for a lifetime i think.But what about you now please?


First, I'd travel all of time, recruiting suitable warriors from every place and age; Alexander's retinue, Odinic Berserkers, Japanese Samurai, the Waffen SS and so on...

Then I'd like to travel back to Roman times, to the battle which Constantine won and by which he became Emperor and imposed Christianity on the Empire.

I'll leave you to guess the rest.

E


Me too, except I'd be on the other side - come on woman ... BRING IT ON!!!!!


LOL

P.S.  Wow, Dr. Who ... that brings me back a couple of decades LOL


Dont get too cocky TGD

You havent seen the size of my panzers yet.

E



LadyEllen -> RE: If you had your very own tardis.What time period would you like to revisit? (1/22/2007 1:43:48 PM)

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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent

I would love to have been an explorer sailing around the world and discovering countries/continents in the 1500/1600s. Imagine the sheer bewilderment when seeing/hearing beasts, fruit, jungles and the unfamiliar sounds for the first time - not even knowing they existed....I'll have a crack at that if you've got a spare machine....

.........have to say I'm not looking forward to the "oh fuck" moment on landing at shore only to be faced by thousands of starving savages all rubbing their stomachs, pointing at me and then pointing at the boiling pots.


Sounds like an average day in Birmingham, NG. Only two hours down the M6 from Manchester.

E



PatentOne -> RE: If you had your very own tardis.What time period would you like to revisit? (1/22/2007 2:03:00 PM)

I dont want a tardis.  I want a dog like Mister Peabody and a Way Back Machine. 



krikket -> RE: If you had your very own tardis.What time period would you like to revisit? (1/22/2007 5:19:48 PM)

As boring as it sounds, i think i'd probably hand in my tardis pass and give it to someone else.  While my life is nothing like i thought it would be all those years ago, there are so many things happening that i want to learn that are going on today that i'd hate to miss out.  i can always go back in time, just hand me a book (good or bad) and i'm soaring back into the past, meeting all sorts of interesting people, seeing new places, and that's enough for me.  i've no desire to go ahead in time -- again, today is good, and tomorrow will be here in less than 4 hours -- i can wait to see what it holds..lol.

Interesting topic though, giving me some pause to think about where i'd go if i could, before realizing i'm fine where i am.

cheers
jimini



popeye1250 -> RE: If you had your very own tardis.What time period would you like to revisit? (1/22/2007 6:26:28 PM)

I'd like to go back a couple hundred years and see my ancesters in Ireland.
Also, I'd like to see America from 1850-1950.
A very interesting time indeed!
The Civil War, Industrialisation, Teddy Roosevelt as President, Henry Ford and the first cars, WW1, the roaring twenties, prohibition, the depression, WW2 and the years immediately after the war.
When I was a kid there was an old delivery van from the teens or twenties in some woods behind my house. It just disintegrated over the decades.
Too bad no-one preserved it.



seeksfemslave -> RE: If you had your very own tardis.What time period would you like to revisit? (1/23/2007 1:23:33 AM)

I would travel to the virtually unknown Star/Planetary system of Orgastica where special machines exist called Orgasmotrons .Regular use guarantees  10 orgasms a day for any one who felt the need. More than that is considered a health risk.

The producers of the film Barbarella discovered the planet. Look what a few sessions on the Orgasmotron did for Jane Fonda. Her skin is perfect. isn't it ?



corsetgirl -> RE: If you had your very own tardis.What time period would you like to revisit? (1/23/2007 6:18:38 PM)

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

When I was a kid there was an old delivery van from the teens or twenties in some woods behind my house. It just disintegrated over the decades.  Too bad no-one preserved it.


I would love to go back to the early 1920's, just to get to know my grandmother who was a young woman and a grand uncle, who was a bootlegger.  I would have loved to be a flapper, go out, party in style and dance on the tables at all hours!

Oh yes, one other thing, I would also make sure I would go to the speakeasies that Dion O'Bannion had, from what I read about him in the books, he had good quality booze or the real McCoy!



OffTheBeatenTrak -> RE: If you had your very own tardis.What time period would you like to revisit? (1/23/2007 6:50:52 PM)

I'm sorry but being so young, i missed the Sixties,

probably the moon landing  yeh 69,
then the roswell crash in july 1947 just so i can actually see whether it's true or not,
then maybe forward to see if i can book a easy jet space flight..



Sinergy -> RE: If you had your very own tardis.What time period would you like to revisit? (1/23/2007 7:16:16 PM)

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ORIGINAL: topkat757

The thought of going back in to my youth is definately an interesting one. If I were able to I could avoid many mistakes I made in my life then. But if I did that would I be what or who I am now with the wisdom learned through my miss haps and and mistaks made in that time. I don't know where the saying coms from but there's one that goes something like this. " If Man doesn't learn from his mistakes and change he is destine to continue to his distruction" or something to that the more I think the more I can't remember the hole thing. I guess it is a what they call a paridoxie. is that spelled right ? Oh well guess you get the point


The problem I have with going back to my youth and correcting my mistakes means that the learning opportunities and lessons I learned to make me the person I am would not happen.  So I would be somebody else.

I like me.

Sinergy



Vendaval -> RE: If you had your very own tardis.What time period would you like to revisit? (1/23/2007 7:25:10 PM)

I would like to go way back, and watch the cave painters
work their magical rituals in the mountains of what are
now France and Spain.  I would want to wander the
Cradle of Civilization during the Neolithic Era, Ancient
Egypt during all of the dynasties, Easter Island at it's
height, Classical Greek and Rome, the Crete/Minoan
Empire, and the best times of the Aztec, Mayan and Incan
civilizations.



bandit25 -> RE: If you had your very own tardis.What time period would you like to revisit? (1/23/2007 7:28:13 PM)

Have room for another in that tardis of yours?



Nosathro -> RE: If you had your very own tardis.What time period would you like to revisit? (1/23/2007 9:42:32 PM)

For me the 1100 the Normans..I would like to go to that period of time.  Oh and being an Historian...FYI Berserker never really fought in a battle.  Just prior to the start they would appear out in front of the line and act crazy in attempts to scare the enemy.  If you have watched the recent history of Rome..it did show the battle in which Costantine won to become Emperor... and as it showed..Constantine really did fight..the other guy got inpatient and crossed the bridge that had been tampered with, he fell into his own trap.



thaimeeuppppp -> RE: If you had your very own tardis.What time period would you like to revisit? (1/23/2007 10:04:11 PM)

I would love to see ancient rome in the time of Anthony and Cleopatra.What a thing that would be



Termyn8or -> RE: If you had your very own tardis.What time period would you like to revisit? (1/23/2007 11:49:35 PM)

Interesting, something I bet noone has noticed. I haven't seen anything about going into the future instead of the past.

Now perhaps the Dr. Who genre or premise or whatever states that the future has not happened yet. If this is so then that explains it. Boiling it down the other way though, if it were possible I would go to the future.

I would then steal. I would not steal items, I would not steal things, I would steal knowledge. I would go to their libraries and pick up a few tricks. I might not be ABLE to bring back things, and how the hell does someboby just "find" things. Don't think the new 36 shot handheld neutron bamb laucher is going to be laying out on a streetcorner.

But the knowledge. Of course some scientific reading, but also, even more important, the current events after I left, more specifically of the time just after I will return.

I don't intend to sit there and read the stock reports all day, what I'll do is make note of some large coroparations' downfalls, like if they ever find out for sure all the shit Haliburton did. I would take every dollar, a few days before and short their stock and make alot.

Same thing any company. We get another incident like Union Carbide over in India, hell, short the heck out of them starting a few days before.

After that I would invent things with my knowledge stolen from the future.

But then if the people of that future are aware of TARDIS' then it would probably be illegal to let me into their libraries. If I were a leader of a community with people able to time travel, there would be laws. Change the past you can kill us all, but someone from the past does not care.

My book (available on reauest) outlines what can happen when someone breaks the law traveling to the past. It also speaks of an amazing advancement in techology due to a goup of people doing it, deliberately taking technological information to the past.

So, if I had a TARDIS today, the very first thing I would do is try to be ready for a trip into the future. And that is exactly where I would go. Screw the past.

What I am wondering is, why has noone else thought about this ?

T



domiguy -> RE: If you had your very own tardis.What time period would you like to revisit? (1/24/2007 1:38:28 AM)

I would go back to last Thursday.  there was this nice looking woman on the el....should have talked to her...probably at least could have got a hummer... If not that,  go back and convince Christ that I was a messenger from God and see how many of my own whacked out ideas would now be part of the bible.

out,

D.G.

p.s. Jesus please protect me from your followers.



LadyEllen -> RE: If you had your very own tardis.What time period would you like to revisit? (1/24/2007 3:25:51 AM)

For anyone who isnt familiar with the operation of a TARDIS, but doesnt want to read the manufacturer's manual....

A TARDIS can travel both back and forward in time, and can also move along x, y and z coordinates. As we saw in a recent episode, it can also relocate almost instantly or it can move at a slower speed, for instance to take part in a car chase as in the Christmas episode. The door can also be opened during movement and when stationary, even in deep space where notably, there is no loss of atmospheric pressure from the vehicle.

E



MizSuz -> For LadyEllen - a bit off topic (1/24/2007 6:13:15 AM)

LadyEllen,

I think we here in the states are getting the new seasons of Dr. Who a season after you guys get them.  I don't know how long you've been watching The Doctor, but my favorite doctor is Tom Baker and I recall watching shows with Jon Pertwee, if that gives you an idea of how long I have.  Something about Baker's wild hair and crazy scarf, I suppose.

I also don't know how many american shows you guys get but I wonder if you've been getting a new show here in the states called Heroes.  If not I'll be happy to give you a synopsis, but the point I was trying to make is that the premiere of the new season of Heroes aired this week and a new "talent" was introduced.  The person who is playing the new talent is none other than Christopher Eccleston, who was the last Doctor prior to our current Doctor, David Tennant.  On Hereos Mr. Eccleston's talent is the ability to be invisible, which it seems he has not used reputably.  So far he's quite shaggy and unkempt, but we only saw this character for a few minutes at the end of the first show of this season.  I'm sure more will be revealed later.

I really liked Mr. Eccleston as The Doctor and was sorry to see him go after one season.  To my mind he had just the right combination of childlike, slightly manic glee and sober seriousness.  I'm hoping he'll be as good on Heroes.

If you have any interest at all in Heroes you can watch episodes in streaming video here:
http://www.nbc.com/Video/rewind/full_episodes/heroes.shtml
I'm afraid I can't tell you if they are the shows in their entirety as I have only just discovered the website.

I think it's one of the best new shoes on TV, but I'm a geek for scifi anyway.  The show always ends on a cliff hanger, but it's not as bad as other shows doing so because in Heroes you get resolutions in every episode - so it's not like you get totally hung out to dry (which is what pisses me off about Battlestar Galactica).

Have I over SciFi-ed you?  My apologies if I have.



domiguy -> RE: For LadyEllen - a bit off topic (1/24/2007 10:10:17 AM)

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ORIGINAL:MizSuz

but I'm a geek for scifi anyway. 

Have I over SciFi-ed you?  My apologies if I have.



Do you use a light saber on your subs?
"creepy."

out.

D.G.

p.s. Jesus please protect me from your followers



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