If you could spend one day in another time, when would it be?

[BurtWorm]

Poll question: If you could spend one day in another time, when would it be?

You can get more specific about time and place in separate posts.

[ceile]

1. Always wanted to live in Q.E.'s I England....

Call it a weird obsession

[noonwitch]

24. Me, too-to meet some of the people of that time

Shakespeare, John Dee, Raliegh, and the Queen herself. What an important time in history.

[Dora]

2. In utero

Just to see what it's like.

[BurtWorm]

3. Would you want to experience birth?

[Dora]

8. I don't think so

I think I only want to remember what it was like before consciousness came in and effed everything up.

[BurtWorm]

10. I think the birth experience is when it all starts to go down hill.

:scared:

[Dora]

27. Yeah, life is like water in that way

always seeking the lowest point!

[On the Road]

4. I've Always Had a Thing for 19th Century New York

although being in Rome during the empire would have been fun. Or Palestine during Jesus' time.

[BurtWorm]

14. I like early 20th Century New York, up to WWI, then NY in the late 1940s

early 1950s seems intriguing.

PS: I'm also very curious about the Empire, but I'd want to pick the reign of a safe Emperor like Trajan.

[Skarbrowe]

5. Ah, let's see. When would have been a good time for women?

Hmmm. I would have liked to have been the Goddess Isis. Maybe.

If I had been a well born male, most certainly England late 19th, early 20th Century.

[VOX]

6. The 1930s-1940s in the U.S.

Just want to see what my parents enjoyed.

[Piperay]

46. Yeah me too

I pick the 1940s, that's when my parents were coming of age and I think it would be neat to have had Roosevelt for Prez. :-)

[Feathered Fish]

7. I'd like to hang out with

some giant mammals.

[Gothic Sponge]

9. The 1920s

[gtp1976]

17. agreed.

I've always been fascinated with the roaring 20's. Next would be the 50's.

[Mad_Dem_X]

11. I've been fascinated with the 18th century since

the Bicentennial, when I was in 3rd grade. I would love to spend a week or so in the Colonies, just as the country was being formed. Perhaps get a glimpse of the great Mr. Jefferson (whom I've always had a weird sort of crush on).

[BurtWorm]

12. I love spending time in 18th Century homes

and the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art has a great collection of 18th Century rooms, fully furnished. They smell great--probably 1000 times better than they did when they were being used, now that I think of it.

[shesemsmom]

13. April 21st 1979

maybe I could have changed things.........to sad to go into

[the Princess]

15. I want to be a Native on a Suoth Seas Island

About 100 years ago.

Or

A Pirate riding the High Seas! Aye Maitey!!!!

[neweurope]

16. A sunny August day in a Shoshone camp 1750.

By the way: What do you mean "human prehistoric"??! Humans have no prehistory, except Eve a little who used to be a rib.

[BurtWorm]

18. If I say human history, you know what I mean, right?

:shrug:

[neweurope]

28. Erm no.

Don't forget I'm not an American and we have a different sense of humour. What I meant was I'm glad to see that there are some Americans left who believe in evolution :)

[BurtWorm]

29. Ah! That explains it!

Actually, your post has been torturing me all afternoon. I've been trying to think of a better way to phrase that!

:crazy:

[neweurope]

32. Poor Burt Worm :)

Reading all the things on this board it brings home to me day after day that even though we Western countries have a lot in common - and even though to the Third World all of us rightly are the enemy - we really differ greatly. (differ? Just haven't my dictionary handy resp. I'm too lazy to get up and get it)

[BurtWorm]

33. I understood that!

Yes, "differ" is the right word! What is your language of choice?

[neweurope]

36. I'm German, Burt Worm :)

[BurtWorm]

42. Isn't that Old Europe?

;) Viva Germany and Europe!

[neweurope]

44. Rumsfeld had that wrong *g*

The OLD Europe is the Europe that followed the US-Big Brother everywhere. The NEW Europe goes its own way. Well, as much as possible anyway ;)

[Bertha Venation]

19. The North American English Colonies, pre-Revolution.

I'm enchanted by the time. And I think life then would've been politically scarier than now.

[neweurope]

30. I don't think so. Life then - if you were not an Indian - was full of hope

Everybody thought it could only be better and surely would be better. Compared to us - would you share the belief that times are continually getting better, and that all it takes ist honest hard work?

I think hope makes all the difference. And I for one have none.

[Bertha Venation]

49. Consider the danger Colonials were in of being suspected Tories.

I think that's similar to what we liberals face, being branded unpatriotic America haters. There's a difference, though: we're not in literal danger of being tarred and feathered.

It took a lot more than honest hard work back then. For Joe Average, the guy on the farm or trying to homestead in the styx, maybe it wasn't so bad. He was just afraid of "savages." But for the residents of the cities, while there was hope, there was also fear of radical revolutionaries taking weak opportunities to brand anyone a Tory.

As for now? Hope? I have hope. There has to be hope, or why bother? The pendulum has swung about as far to the right as it can go, but it is a pendulum. It'll swing back, and if not in '06, surely in '08. Meantime, without hope, one tends to give up. I can't.

[maveric]

20. I would like to find the Jesus fellow, follow him take notes...

and record things the ways they actually happenend.

[BurtWorm]

21. Would you be shocked if you found out there was no Jesus fellow?

[maveric]

23. No not really. I believe that there was man like him, minus the divinity

virgin birth and resurrection hoopla.

[guitar man]

22. The Wild West

I always thought I would thrive there.

[MsAnthropy]

25. I'd try June 14, 1975 over again

and save myself a couple decades of misery

[NamVetsWeeLass]

26. April 27th and 28th 1979

I would pry that gun out of my Dad's hand and beat him senseless with it. The reason I say both days is that they found him after he had been dead a day or two, and I don't recall if they ever nailed down an exact time of death.

[shesemsmom]

43. Sounds like April 1979 was a bad year for you too.

I,m sorry. When I think of that year I get into a totally black mood. Even after much, much therapy

[NamVetsWeeLass]

47. Yep, it sucked. Sucked more than most can Imagine.

I have a feeling that you know how it feels though. :hug: We'll make it through, and if not, I for one will go out in a Blaze of Glory. But I suspect we will make it through. Keep your head up.

[mvd]

31. The future

I want to see if we get out of this national nightmare! I think we will, as throughout history, we've mainly progressed after regressing. And I wouldn't want to go back in technology.

[Karenina]

34. Sitting 1st chair

for the premiere of Brahm's Requiem...

[Cuban_Liberal]

35. Edwardian England.

I wouldn't need to be rich, but comfortably well-off.
:)

[woo me with science]

37. really stunned at these results....

i was sure more people would pick the future, but what really gets me is that so many people picked dates during their own lifetimes.

don't people have any imagination? the future is the only time we DON'T know anything about. even the past, we have some idea about through history and science. wouldn't it be amazing to see 1,000 years from now?

i don't get it.

[Skarbrowe]

45. Shows how well I read directions. I thought you meant past only.

I would love to see what the world is like 100 years plus from now. I've always been into sci-fi and never really wanted to go back in the past to any time. Especially the 50's. ;)

[pink-o]

38. A few to choose from

1) Renaissance Italy. (Or Italy at any time in history, including RIGHT NOW. That country is just the best!)

2) Medieval England (with a few Rat repellers around! Don't wanna die from the Black Death)

3) Victorian London. Women did have it bad, if they were poor cockneys or Jack-the-Ripper fodder prostitutes. But Oscar Wilde's own mother had a salon where she invited Bloomsbury-type artistic guests of both sexes, they drank Absinthe and discussed philosophy in that erudite, snappy venacular of theirs. Sarah Bernhardt had a lot of freedom, living on the edge of scandal. I wouldn't mind that life at all!

[Courtesy Flush]

39. Doh! I feel like an idiot

I was going to say Yesterday!

[neweurope]

40. Idiot? I congratulate you :)

If the day was so good you want to repeat it you fare better than me :)

[amazona]

41. some future time when...

...I could get the magical nanobots or whatever installed in a quickie office procedure and then return to my time to be young and healthy and free of the health care industry indefinitely. :-)

[Mike Niendorff]

48. I honestly don't know.

Past? Epidemics, poor health and hygeine, lack of modern technology, rampant illiteracy, superstition, poverty, racism, brutality, ...

Future? More and more, it appears the real movers and shakers of the world are intent on reversing course toward the past (with open eyes toward amplifying the failings listed above). I shudder to think what kind of a world today's madmen will create if given fifty or a hundred generations more to hone their insanity.

So, all things being equal, I think I'm just going to go back to bed.


MDN