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18 Nov 2023, 11:23 am

How would you react if you woke up back in 1923?



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18 Nov 2023, 3:07 pm

I actually did that once.

Fell through a time slip, and fell back out again. BOY! Was that one hairy weekend!

Thats me...the guy in the dark glasses. :D


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18 Nov 2023, 4:34 pm

I'd be very disappointed because I'd know that television wouldn't be invented for another three years.


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19 Nov 2023, 3:47 am

CockneyRebel wrote:
I'd be very disappointed because I'd know that television wouldn't be invented for another three years.


TV wouldnt become a thing in homes for another quarter century after 1923.

But they had radio and movies in theaters then.



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19 Nov 2023, 8:05 am

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CockneyRebel wrote:
I'd be very disappointed because I'd know that television wouldn't be invented for another three years.


TV wouldnt become a thing in homes for another quarter century after 1923.

But they had radio and movies in theaters then.


Just the infancy and possibility of television would have excited me, though even though it wasn't widely available in the late 20s.


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19 Nov 2023, 7:32 pm

I probably wouldn't be too stoked on it. War just ended, Great Depression and more war are coming. Rough time.

I'd probably be a little choked at the lack of technology/engineering & designs of modern things.. especially vehicles and sporting goods. If I talked about the things that would come to be and sketched out pictures of kite boards and motorcycles they'd probably think I was nuts and look me in an asylum. So I'd be frustrated knowing I knew stuff but couldn't share it.. especially since I don't know Enough to convey the knowledge of how to design and build the things, only that they exist 100 years later and I got to use them.

I guess I'd have to get over all of that pretty quick and then figure out how to make the most of things if I was unable to return to Now. All you can do, really.


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19 Nov 2023, 8:04 pm

I would buy up all the cheap desert scrublands around places later to be known as Beverly Hills, Palm Springs, and Silicon Valley . . . orchards in Anaheim . . . swampland in Orlando . . . beachfront properties on Cape Canaveral . . .


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19 Nov 2023, 8:16 pm

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I would buy up all the cheap desert scrublands around places later to be known as Beverly Hills, Palm Springs, and Silicon Valley . . . orchards in Anaheim . . . swampland in Orlando . . . beachfront properties on Cape Canaveral . . .


Lets expand on this, where would you get the money?


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19 Nov 2023, 9:23 pm

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Fnord wrote:
I would buy up all the cheap desert scrublands around places later to be known as Beverly Hills, Palm Springs, and Silicon Valley . . . orchards in Anaheim . . . swampland in Orlando . . . beachfront properties on Cape Canaveral . . .
Lets expand on this, where would you get the money?
Why, from those who invest in my land development business, which I will have listed on the NYSE.  By the time they figure out it was all a Ponzi scheme, the great Depression will have hit, and I will have moved to Canada.


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19 Nov 2023, 9:27 pm

Persuade Hitler to ...take a take a trip in style to the US...on the Hindenberg!



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19 Nov 2023, 9:29 pm

Fnord wrote:
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Fnord wrote:
I would buy up all the cheap desert scrublands around places later to be known as Beverly Hills, Palm Springs, and Silicon Valley . . . orchards in Anaheim . . . swampland in Orlando . . . beachfront properties on Cape Canaveral . . .
Lets expand on this, where would you get the money?
Why, from those who invest in my land development business, which I will have listed on the NYSE.  By the time they figure out it was all a Ponzi scheme, the great Depression will have hit, and I will have moved to Canada.


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19 Nov 2023, 9:32 pm

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Persuaded Hitler to ...take a take a trip in style to the US...on the Hindenberg!


I'm sure the trip will blow his mind.


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19 Nov 2023, 9:33 pm

A real gas! :D



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19 Nov 2023, 9:36 pm

I have third degree yearns just thinking about it :jester:


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19 Nov 2023, 9:38 pm

I'd tell my great grandmother not to marry my great gradfather. Then I'd go back to sleep and presumably, not wake up again. :-)



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19 Nov 2023, 11:03 pm

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Persuade Hitler to ...take a take a trip in style to the US...on the Hindenberg!

I'm pretty sure you doing this would have probably changed the whole history. Would any of us even exist at this point? Hmmm....

I know if I'd try, he'd probably kill me knowing I don't have blonde hair and blue eyes. :|


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