Okay, let's say you have access to a time machine and can go anywhere, anytime in history and do anything. Now, besides the obvious thing that we ALL would do, list the top five things/places/events you'd like to visit or do. I'll start, in no particular order...
1. Go to Woodstock and watch Hendrix play the Star Spangled Banner.
2. Go to Dallas in 1963 to see if someone really WAS shooting from the grassy knoll.
3. Go to Austria in 1928 and kill Hitler before he came to power.
4. Go to Israel in 33 AD and attend the Last Supper.
5. Go to Philadelphia in 1776 and watch the signing of the Declaration of Independance.
BONUS: Go to Boston on April 21, 1912 and attend the first game at Fenway Park... Red Sox beat the New York Highlanders (later known as the Yankees) 4 - 1..
Those are my five (six),
Cory
The Three Rules of Happiness: Friends, Freedom and an Analyzed Life - Epicurus
1. Be at the beach where Jesus was cooking a breakfast of fresh fish for his friends after he had risen from the dead.
2. Be with Jesus when he ordered Lazerus out of the tomb.
3. To witness my parents' first meeting.
4. Be one of the shepherds to which the angels spoke of "Good New" on that first Christmas.
5. To witness the actual vote for independence in 1776, and witness the prior discussions and debates with Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Hamilton, Franklin. (I'm reading 1776 right now. Awesome.)
One of the first things that came to mind for my list was to have my time machine go back to the point where I was getting serious with the man who would be my husband and yell "RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!" But then I thought, no, no.... I wouldn't do that, because then I wouldn't have my two children as they are, and I wouldn't trade them for the world.
Mine aren't as altruistic as yours, though, Cory...
1. 1988... Instead of learning card games, drinking games, drink specials, take out delivery specials, etc. while in college right after high school... I'd buckle down and go to law school.
2. 2000... Negotiated a higher salary when I took my job, where I still work 6 years later.
3. 2002... Learned to trust my gut, enforce boundaries, and draw my line in the sand MUCHMUCHMUCH earlier.
4. 2005... Organized a lynch mob for the asshead who hit my nephew with his car instead of waiting on society's justice.
5. 1929... Went to the dance where my grandparents met. They met at a dance in a neighboring town, dated for 6 months, eloped, and went back to their respective homes afterwards! My grandma's parents saw the marriage license in the paper 5 days after they married. When we cleaned out my grandparents' house after they died, we found the dance card from the night they met (70 years later!). It made me cry! Everybody had nicknames back then - Slim, Whitey, Slick... my grandma was Ruthie and my grandpa was Peachy. They were married for 59 years - my grandpa told us once, "I thought she was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen the night we met... and I still do."
Monica
My yesterdays are all boxed up - and neatly put away.
2000 - the year I was married to the night before when I had that really bad feeling in my gut like I was making a huge mistake and run away, really far, really fast
1989 - go back to highschool and enjoy it instead of skipping out and being in such a hurry to grow up
But honestly there are some cool things happening in my life right now so I do sort of like just where I am right now.
Kid
opps thought of one more - go back to when my nieces were born so I could experience their first few years all over again
This message has been edited by Canuck_Kid on Jul 22, 2006 12:38 AM
1. Go to Philadelphia in 1787 for the debates over the new Constitution (and meet Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison for a beer at the City Tavern afterwards).
2. Go to Philadelphia sometime after 1817 (with a German-speaking translator) to accompany my great-great-great grandfather and his parents on their trek to what became the family homestead in Ohio. The turnpike wasn't paved back then.
3. Go to southern Delaware in the 1700's and meet my ancestor, the sea captain from Bermuda.
4. Go to the Holy Land in the third decade AD (with a translator) to hear the Sermon on the Mount in person.
5. Go back to a special weekend in early June, 2006.
Jean, I'm part of a group of friends from all over who met and corresponded via Internet for years (in many cases). We finally started meeting in person as a group last year. It seems pretty rare (at least in my experience) to make a bunch of deep, lasting new friendships in mid-life, and that's special to me.
Hmmmm. I'm thinking the group you're talking about is from these forums, no? Just wondering why you were so cryptic -- or maybe I just wasn't supposed to "get it."
Jean
This message has been edited by Jean150 on Jul 23, 2006 2:02 PM
I am a BIG Disney fan so dont laugh, but I would have loved to have been at Disneyland on opening day, July 17, 1955.
I would love to go back and see Michael Angelo paint the ceiling of the Sixtine Chapel and Leonardo Divinci paint the Last Supper in Milan...
There are a million other times and events I would loved to have seen, but nothing compares with what the future holds for all of us....may it be better and brighter than we could have ever imagined.
Take Care...Carol~
This message has been edited by pizzalady on Jul 24, 2006 12:47 PM
Hey, good news. I read where there is a guy in Macedonia who claims he IS a time traveler with 3 mysytical watches. So I figured he could fix me up with this fantasy or worst case get a new faceplate for my current watch. I bump into things alot. Me and doorways... don't get me started.
I would go back and befriend Bill Gate's geek who created DOS then beat him to IBM to work out his deal with them, then get it from the buddy for nothing.
Go back to Scotland and get drunk with my ancestor Rob Roy.
Get tickets to Game 7 of the 1982 World Series and celebrate in St. Louis. Maybe get two tickets and bring Rob Roy with me. He'd be a blast at the strip clubs.
Two separate trips to hold each of my daughters for the first time again.
Show up at the signing of the Declaration of Independence and worm my way in to sign it... then draw the 'Kilroy Was Here' picture on it.
Moe said, "I bump into things alot. Me and doorways... don't get me started."
Moe, I can provide you with the contact information for the company that makes my blindie mobility cane... If you need an O&M (Orientation & Mobility) trainer, I can hook you up...
Bump into doorways? Dude, I literally knocked myself out on a doorway a couple of years ago. When you have very low vision, you take certain routes around your house. If you vary from the route, you hit things. I took a corner too wide and WHAP! I was out cold for about ten minutes.
Bumping stuff.... Rookies... yeeesh. LOL
Cory
The Three Rules of Happiness: Friends, Freedom and an Analyzed Life - Epicurus
Moe - LOL!! Why do we ALL learn to ask where the library is, in whatever foreign language we study? I can't imagine going to Spain and wanting to visit their library... but, if I DO get the urge, I can ask.
¿Dónde está la biblioteca?
Monica
My yesterdays are all boxed up - and neatly put away.
Why is it that when we might visit a European country their main concern is that us Americans make a beeline straight to their Libraries? I've asked our foreign exchange interns that everytime we get a new one.
Another thing that I've learned from speaking with our interns... Germans have never heard of German Chocolate, Spaniards have never heard of Spanish Rice, and Canadians have never heard of Canadian Bacon. I'm guessing the French have never heard of French Ticklers either.
You're right.....in fact we don't know about French fries either...and we relate to that other thing as a British 'coat', and the British call them a French envelop.... go and figure LOL LOL
I've only visited Canada and Mexico, so I'm not up on what to ask for, but logically speaking, I'd want to learn how to ask where the nearest bathroom is... Just in case...
Moe, to add to your list... People from Australia have never heard of Outback Steakhouse either... And whatever you do, NEVER mention Fannie Farmer Candies or Cookbooks to them... LOL
Cory
The Three Rules of Happiness: Friends, Freedom and an Analyzed Life - Epicurus
Speaking of Outback SteakHouses, Smiling Frog took us to an Outback Steakhouse while we were visiting her in Holland. It had the same decor as ours normally do on the inside but it had more of an authentic (perception on my part) parking lot made of dirt and gravel surrounded by woods and brush piles. It actually looked like Crockadile Dundee could come wondering out of the woods at any time. Our's are normally located in shopping centers with paved parking lots with parking spots marked off.
The one in Holland had no idea about the onion thing that the US Outback Steakhouses do. And, to hear them speak Dutch in an Outback Steakhouse was some what odd.
Eddited to add:
Do French women know how to French kiss or is that another one of those Americanisms?
This message has been edited by hurt2core on Jul 27, 2006 6:53 AM
Have you heard about the Sam Adams beer contest that's being advertised? Apparantly they have had this contest for years, this is just the first time they have advertised it on TV. So, would you sell your home brew recipe to Sam Adams for $5,000. (the prize) and bragging rights that their new beer is your recipe?
I had to think about this for a while and heres what I came up with.
Besides all the interesting historical figures and discoveries I'd like to see, I would want to go back to meet my two grandfathers (and families) who I never met and maybe even their parents to see how they lived and talk to them. Family history is interesting to me.
How do you say 'Throw another shrimp on the barbie" in Dutch? And why is it Dutch if it's Holland and where does The Netherlands come into it? And why is it Netherlands instead of the Nether Regions?
Has anyone seen Dave Chappelle's commercial for Samuel L. Jackson beer? The guy asks him if he could stop screaming at him and Sam replies "NO! THIS IS HOW I M*F*ing TALK!".
And Kat, I met a French girl who was visiting our German intern a couple of months ago and I don't know if they call it French kissing but they do it quite well. I didn't ask her if they call it that because she wondered why I wanted to go to the library so damn bad... so the conversation part was a little awkward.
Moe, you crack me up! Ya know what you should have asked her? What color her bicycle is. THAT would have put her over the top, I betcha. That's another one of those phrases that seem REEEEEEEALLY important in foreign language class. Mi bicicleta es roja, by the way.
Monica
My yesterdays are all boxed up - and neatly put away.
1.I would go back to 2005 just before our remodel and try to communicate and get my husband to communicat with me more and seek proper counseling.
2. I would go back to Sept.2005 and not confide or comunicate with the one I had an affair with, (Actually I wish we never had met)
3. I would go back to my wedding day and not have anything to drink before the ceremony and I would kiss my husband long and hard in the church when they said you may kiss your bride.
4. I would go back to Dec.1993 and stop my husband from having his vasectomy.
5. I would like to go back to the 5th grade on the day I first kissed my husband and not spit and say YUK!! I would hug him after instead of running out from behind the shed.
Angela, I heard about that contest, but I don't make my own brew. However, I HAVE entered the "Be the Sam Adams taste tester for a day" contest over and over... and over... and over, on their website..
Charlie, I didn't list it, but I always thought it would be fun to go to Portugal and watch my great-great-great grandfather marry that princess from Spain (she was disowned for marrying a commoner). I know right where the town is. Matter of fact, it's named after him.. Viall Franca.
Cory
The Three Rules of Happiness: Friends, Freedom and an Analyzed Life - Epicurus
In reality, beer tasting is very much like wine tasting. There IS a technique and style to beer tasting. There are 5 basic things you look for, and one of them DOES involve sight. For those that do wine tasting, you'll see some familiar items...
1. Color
2. Smell
3. Taste
4. Consistency
5. Aftertaste
Like wine, beer is very individual. For example, I like a dark, malty lager. VERY heavy beer, not as bitter as "hoppy" beers, and a very smooth, albeit lingering, aftertaste. My W likes what I call "wimpy beer". You know, blueberry beer, cherry wheat, watermelon, etc. It's all in what you like.
Of course, it took me sampling a LARGE variety of beers to decide on what type I liked. That's the fun part...
Cory
The Three Rules of Happiness: Friends, Freedom and an Analyzed Life - Epicurus
I stopped at a bar in San Francisco once, 40 taps all lined up behind the bar and I ordered a Bud. The bartender gave me this disgusted look, disappeared thru the door behind the bar for 10 minutes, came back with a 6 pack of cans still on the plastic rings. He had to go cross the alley to buy a 6 at the liquor store. I told him "I'm feeling like 7".
Moe.... A Bud fan? Dude, you just lost a ton of respect...
Being the beer snob that I am, I absolutely cannot drink anything made by A.B. If I drink half a Bud, I'll get an upset stomach and a migraine. Kind of like a bad hangover without the fun preceding it...
I have an aunt who's worked for them for over 30 years. She told me my reaction was probably due to the fact that, unlike REAL beer, Bud is not made with just the 4 traditional ingredients of beer making. They add fillers.
The proof is in the pudding... Germany has VERY strict rules regarding the purity of beer sold in their country. This is why you won't find mass produced "filler" beers in Germany (Bud, Miller, Coors, etc.), unless you're on a military base. Matter of fact, the only American made beer allowed to be sold in Germany is Sam Adams, and they only received the "stamp of approval" about 5 years ago.
Cory
The Three Rules of Happiness: Friends, Freedom and an Analyzed Life - Epicurus
Thanks for that info. I also get headaches from beer although I do like it. I'll try Sam Adams more often, maybe it doesn't have what gives me the headaches. Mostly, it is canned beer versus bottled that gives me headaches and I don't know why?
In my defense Cory, I switched to Bud in 84 when Ozzie Smith was close to leaving the Cards via free agency. I had a salary that needed paying and in those days, I should have been invited to swim in The Wizard's pool for all I did for him.
But c'mon!!! It's THE KING!!! Are you telling me you prefer Yanni or John Tesh over Elvis?
Moe, I understand you doing your part to keep Ozzie in town... But here's a newsflash: Ozzie is long retired and now in the Hall of Fame, sporting a fake beard at the inductions the other day. It's time to move on...
As for Bud being the "The King", I've never respected anyone or anything that anoints themselves "King". Elvis never anointed himself. Neither did Jesus, for that matter.
Hitler anointed himself. So did Bud. See the difference?
Charlie, many canned beers have a lining in the can to keep the beer from skunking. That could be the issue. Stick to drafts, bottles, and beer that costs a bit more than $4 for a six pack... If you like a good crisp ale, and if you can find it in your area, I recommend Molson XXX. Be warned, this beer has more than twice the alcohol content of normal "real" beer (7.2% vs. 3.4%), and over 3 times the alcohol content of Bud (7.2% vs. 2.3%). I call it "cheap date beer", because you only need 2.. The scary part is, the REAL Molson XXX found in Canada is 11.2% alcohol!!
And yet, even that pales in comparison to the beer that has won the World's Strongest Beer contest for the last 5 years: Sam Adams Utopia, which comes in at 54% alcohol! Forget buying it, it costs just over $100 for a 10 ounce bottle. I've heard it tastes almost like cognac, yet it is a real traditional beer, made with the standard beer ingredients: water, hops, barley & yeast.
Cory
The Three Rules of Happiness: Friends, Freedom and an Analyzed Life - Epicurus
I know, I know and the Gussies don't even own the Cards anymore. But it's like Norman Bates letting go of his Mom... just can't do it. What can I say? I prefer Captain Kirk Star Trek, Dick York Bewitched, and Colonel Blake MASH. I can't help it.
