You just got taken 500 years back into the past

[shabby]

Originally posted by: DurocShark
Invent toilet paper.
Invent toothbrushes.
Invent deodorant.
Make women shave.

We have a winner!

 

[Eeezee]

I'd probably contract smallpox and die right after making the first lightbulb, which would then be stolen by injuns and destroyed for some reason

 

[dainthomas]

I would sell everything I had and deposit it in the Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena in Italy. Then I would come back and be a gazillionaire.

 

[MustangSVT]

Originally posted by: myjaja
I would go around teaching the chicks new and fun ways to have sex in a room.

i doubt you know anything about that.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
I would open an Inn/Alehouse. I'd be the publican. It would be called The Three Black Crows Inn. It would be baller.

 

[Vic]

I imagine it wouldn't take me long to get myself burned at the stake.

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: clamum
Try not to get killed

I'm going after you first.

LOL

:heart:?

 

[iwearnosox]

Register ebay.com, amazon.com and google.com. Wait.

 

[SampSon]

I'd invent penicillin.

 

[Kyanzes]

Well, first I would have to learn the local language, guess that would be quite hard. I know some english ofc but I'm not sure how similar today's english is to the form used 500ys ago (if the particular area even uses english, my native lang would also be a challenge because I know it was way different back then). I would have to learn to address people in charge properly (before getting beheaded lol). But, after the linguistic trouble I guess I would become involved in religion. Not because I'm a believer but because that's where knowledge was and I wouldn't be required to do very hard work. I could read a lot also. Well, my knowledge of writing would be an advantage obviously in an era with such low rate of literacy, and some basic stuff based on later technology could be "re-invented" by my "genius". Ofc I would have to be very careful not to invent something that would promptly deliver me to the hands of the Holy Inquisition. I assume I would be in Europe (where I live know anyway). First I would try to convince people that I'm from a land far away. Oh yes, and I would definitely write the Critic of Pure Reason, hehe... Lord of the Rings maybe... lol. I would probably move to my native country eventually, not sure though.

 

[myjaja]

Originally posted by: MustangSVT

Originally posted by: myjaja
I would go around teaching the chicks new and fun ways to have sex in a room.

i doubt you know anything about that.

What makes you so sure? Go ask your mom. She'll tell you what she learned from me.

 

[Taggart]

I would beat Al Gore to the punch and invent TEH INTARWEBS!!!!

 

[CarlKillerMiller]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
I would open an Inn/Alehouse. I'd be the publican. It would be called The Three Black Crows Inn. It would be baller.

I'll have a beer to that! 500 years ago.

 

[Taggart]

 

[Sc4freak]

I'd kill my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents.

 

[wazzledoozle]

I would greet a village of primitives with my double barrel L-Mart shotgun and my robotic hand. I would then proceed to destroy the army of darkness.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
I would greet a village of primitives with my double barrel L-Mart shotgun and my robotic hand. I would then proceed to destroy the army of darkness.

S-Mart

 

[theprodigalrebel]

I'd claim the Earth is round.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Originally posted by: Sc4freak
I'd kill my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents.

There you go you old geezers..BAM!

Hey wait, why am I melting...Oh-Shi...TIME PARADOX!

 

[ruffilb]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Molondo
But serriously, what do you do for a living? Are we that useless?

What I do for a living wouldn't help me at all...
But I could probably play some music once I got the hang of the lute as compared to guitar, write, or philosophize.

Philosophy FTW.

I know enough to rewrite a few books.

And yea, if nothing else, math and science would go over well. Calculus, physics, etc.

 

[Number1]

I would be miserable.

 

[Horus]

I would invent the Repeating Rifle and sell it to the King of England. In return, I would ask for troops to go colonize that place called the New World, and kick le frogs out. Then, I would invent the Automatic rifle and Machine Gun, and take my army of Indians to France, and kill all the royalty. And it would be sweet. Maybe I would introduce internal combustion engines and penecillin...but not for a while.

 

[RaistlinZ]

I can't believe so many of you are worried about being "burned at the stake" and what-not.

What kind of moron would go 500 years to the past without bringing some kind of semi-automatic weapon with them?

 

[Scouzer]

I'd be sure Quebec never existed and the French were deported back to France after the British victory.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: LoKe
I'd probably kill as many people as possible.

So, join the Spaniards? That would be the easiest way.
On that note, I would probably join England and sink the entire Spanish Navy to the bottom of the ocean, and try to ensure that the Americas are colonized in as humane a way as possible. Just trading steel for gold ought to be enough to keep both sides happy for a while. All in all, the English were probably better to their colonies than most other European powers.

I think I'd be able to hammer out a pretty good number of inventions, based on my technical knowledge. The important thing is to place yourself politically, so you have some say over how your inventions are used.

Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
What kind of moron would go 500 years to the past without bringing some kind of belt-fed fully automatic weapon with them?

fixed.