If you could go back in time for one year, when would it be?

[lozina]

1913

I'd find and "incapacitate" the people responsible for income tax

 

[CKent]

~65,000,000 years ago, I'd want to watch the fireworks

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: CKent
~65,000,000 years ago, I'd want to watch the fireworks

you would die in a month; no food for joo.

 

[Phoenix15]

I'd go back to about 2000 or so. Spend time with my dad. I'd give everything in the world just to get to sit down and talk to him again. Just to let him know how everything in my life turned out.

 

[DannyLove]

Originally posted by: Crazyfool
I don't even need a whole year. I could go back in time a week, pick the winning lotto numbers, and live happily ever after.

we got a winner here. THis is the best answer!

I would first check and see which has been the record jackpot amount and go from there. w00t

 

[krunchykrome]

Originally posted by: Phoenix15
I'd go back to about 2000 or so. Spend time with my dad. I'd give everything in the world just to get to sit down and talk to him again. Just to let him know how everything in my life turned out.

You know, my father is 62 right now. Im 23, and he doesn't know anything about me. We've never had a father-son bonding moment or any intimate conversation about anything other than negative issues. All we ever had was a relationship that didn't go past the father-son label. So when I hear things like what you just said, it really makes me sad because I know I'll be feeling that one day, willing to trade everything for five more minutes to try to connect with that man.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: krunchykrome

Originally posted by: Phoenix15
I'd go back to about 2000 or so. Spend time with my dad. I'd give everything in the world just to get to sit down and talk to him again. Just to let him know how everything in my life turned out.

You know, my father is 62 right now. Im 23, and he doesn't know anything about me. We've never had a father-son bonding moment or any intimate conversation about anything other than negative issues. All we ever had was a relationship that didn't go past the father-son label. So when I hear things like what you just said, it really makes me sad because I know I'll be feeling that one day, willing to trade everything for five more minutes to try to connect with that man.

so why the fvck don't you do something now???

 

[InlineFour]

Originally posted by: krunchykrome

Originally posted by: Phoenix15
I'd go back to about 2000 or so. Spend time with my dad. I'd give everything in the world just to get to sit down and talk to him again. Just to let him know how everything in my life turned out.

You know, my father is 62 right now. Im 23, and he doesn't know anything about me. We've never had a father-son bonding moment or any intimate conversation about anything other than negative issues. All we ever had was a relationship that didn't go past the father-son label. So when I hear things like what you just said, it really makes me sad because I know I'll be feeling that one day, willing to trade everything for five more minutes to try to connect with that man.

it's not too late.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: BW86
Mid to late 60s in Haight Ashbury

i was thinking late sixties in London... :beer:

 

[LongCoolMother]

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Tough call. Might go back to about 10-15kbce, just to see what was actually around then. Then again, hard to turn down a chance to co-exist with Jesus just so I could give everyone the real story first hand. If I felt selfish I could go back to about 1976-1980 to give my younger self a list of things to do and not do. Just thought of another: 50bce so I could find a way to save all the works in the Library of Alexandria before they all get destroyed.

Of course, there are some caveats. Can I take anything back with me, can I bring anything forward with me, will I be immune to diseases of the time/place, will I innately be able to communicate across language barriers, is this a 'can affect history' or 'can't affect history' timeline, etc.

:thumbsup:

thats intruiging. id like to go back to the beginning of the universe and see what was up back then. how fascinating....

 

[krunchykrome]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: krunchykrome

Originally posted by: Phoenix15
I'd go back to about 2000 or so. Spend time with my dad. I'd give everything in the world just to get to sit down and talk to him again. Just to let him know how everything in my life turned out.

You know, my father is 62 right now. Im 23, and he doesn't know anything about me. We've never had a father-son bonding moment or any intimate conversation about anything other than negative issues. All we ever had was a relationship that didn't go past the father-son label. So when I hear things like what you just said, it really makes me sad because I know I'll be feeling that one day, willing to trade everything for five more minutes to try to connect with that man.

so why the fvck don't you do something now???

23 years and you don't think I've tried and struggled with this. A few years ago, I gave up. I don't know why it didnt work. Thats not the point. I wasn't trying to sound like a sympathy-whore or anything. I was just saying that even though I'm not in that situation now, and even though his and my situations are different (he sounds like he had a good relationship with his father), I can understand how he feels.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: krunchykrome

Originally posted by: Phoenix15
I'd go back to about 2000 or so. Spend time with my dad. I'd give everything in the world just to get to sit down and talk to him again. Just to let him know how everything in my life turned out.

You know, my father is 62 right now. Im 23, and he doesn't know anything about me. We've never had a father-son bonding moment or any intimate conversation about anything other than negative issues. All we ever had was a relationship that didn't go past the father-son label. So when I hear things like what you just said, it really makes me sad because I know I'll be feeling that one day, willing to trade everything for five more minutes to try to connect with that man.

so why the fvck don't you do something now???

QFT. My father was little more to me than a sperm donator and a jailbird. My mother knows how to pick 'em - slightly retarded, just like herself. You're very lucky and you take it for granted.

 

[krunchykrome]

Originally posted by: CKent

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: krunchykrome

Originally posted by: Phoenix15
I'd go back to about 2000 or so. Spend time with my dad. I'd give everything in the world just to get to sit down and talk to him again. Just to let him know how everything in my life turned out.

You know, my father is 62 right now. Im 23, and he doesn't know anything about me. We've never had a father-son bonding moment or any intimate conversation about anything other than negative issues. All we ever had was a relationship that didn't go past the father-son label. So when I hear things like what you just said, it really makes me sad because I know I'll be feeling that one day, willing to trade everything for five more minutes to try to connect with that man.

so why the fvck don't you do something now???

QFT. My father was little more to me than a sperm donator and a jailbird. My mother knows how to pick 'em - slightly retarded, just like herself. You're very lucky and you take it for granted.

I know. I have a father who stuck around, who paid the bills and supported the family. He put the roof over our heads, the food in our mouths, the cars in our driveway. I know many people out there don't even have a father. I guess I just expected more. The way I want to be a father is not the way he was a father to me.

 

[Dacalo]

Originally posted by: krunchykrome

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: krunchykrome

Originally posted by: Phoenix15
I'd go back to about 2000 or so. Spend time with my dad. I'd give everything in the world just to get to sit down and talk to him again. Just to let him know how everything in my life turned out.

You know, my father is 62 right now. Im 23, and he doesn't know anything about me. We've never had a father-son bonding moment or any intimate conversation about anything other than negative issues. All we ever had was a relationship that didn't go past the father-son label. So when I hear things like what you just said, it really makes me sad because I know I'll be feeling that one day, willing to trade everything for five more minutes to try to connect with that man.

so why the fvck don't you do something now???

23 years and you don't think I've tried and struggled with this. A few years ago, I gave up. I don't know why it didnt work. Thats not the point. I wasn't trying to sound like a sympathy-whore or anything. I was just saying that even though I'm not in that situation now, and even though his and my situations are different (he sounds like he had a good relationship with his father), I can understand how he feels.

I lost my father back in 1999 when I was 20, never got to know him too well. I would love to go back to around 1993 and spend some time with him, go fishing and drink with him and just chat. I watched Frequency about 3 years after he passed away and the movie made me so sad.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: CKent
~65,000,000 years ago, I'd want to watch the fireworks

you would die in a month; no food for joo.

I'm aware of that.

 

[Geekbabe]

I had all sorts of answers picked out but suddenly realised that if I went back and did things differently for a year that I most likely wouldn't have met my husband, so my answer has to be none of them

 

[DrPizza]

Fools! I'd go back in time to 364 days before I went back in time... that way I could relive going back in time over and over and over...

It would be like Groundhog Day, except for a whole year.

Think about it... within a dozen iterations or so, you could probably figure out how to be in the right place at the right time to end up having an intimate evening with Jessica Alba or whatever floats your boat.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Fools! I'd go back in time to 364 days before I went back in time... that way I could relive going back in time over and over and over...

It would be like Groundhog Day, except for a whole year.

Think about it... within a dozen iterations or so, you could probably figure out how to be in the right place at the right time to end up having an intimate evening with Jessica Alba or whatever floats your boat.

Lol good point

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: Geekbabe
I had all sorts of answers picked out but suddenly realised that if I went back and did things differently for a year that I most likely wouldn't have met my husband, so my answer has to be none of them

It's interesting, the things that get said when one's SO reads the forums too.

 

[herkulease]

Originally posted by: Blazin Trav

Originally posted by: Crazyfool
I don't even need a whole year. I could go back in time a week, pick the winning lotto numbers, and live happily ever after.

I would do that everyday for 365 days!

:thumbsup:

If you win every drawing of say Powerball which is 104, don't you think it would look bit suspicious? The state would probably shut down the whole thing to investigate if someone is rigging it.

I know what you're thinking, win smaller amounts, but then you wouldn't make much. especially after taxes.

Anyhow, I would go back to 2/15/06, and buy and win the powerball drawing for that date. a cool 308 mil, take cash value of 154 mil which after taxes is about 92 mil.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Fools! I'd go back in time to 364 days before I went back in time... that way I could relive going back in time over and over and over...

It would be like Groundhog Day, except for a whole year.

Think about it... within a dozen iterations or so, you could probably figure out how to be in the right place at the right time to end up having an intimate evening with Jessica Alba or whatever floats your boat.

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