If you could be anyone, anywhere anytime what would it be?

[offline]

Take a person
Take a period in time
Take a place.

example:

Roman Emperor Caligula Bushitus,
22nd century
The bench next to Dunkin Donuts

[northcat_8]

Wow there are several possibilities...

Michael Jordan - pretty much anytime
Mario Andretti - winning Indy
Neil Armstrong - on the moon
Peter North - at work

But if I had to choose just one, anytime at any place in history???
.....<requiring more thought than originally allocated>

For me...

Hugh Heffner
1944 to present
Bed with perspective bunnies.

[reboot]

Person: Myself
Time: 10 seconds before the ship sank
Place: looking down from helicopter on the ship carrying the lost treasures of the Alexandria Library.

[the bomb]

I'm a Civil War buff so I would like to see Lee's surrender to Grant.

[thecoalman]

Person: Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
Time: November 26, 1941
Place: USS Ronald Reagan just off the Japanese coast.

[Dr. DOS]

Person: Myself
Time: 10 seconds before the ship sank
Place: looking down from helicopter on the ship carrying the lost treasures of the Alexandria Library.

Dude... can you expand on this comment... sounds like a way cool adventure...

[tgpo]

I'd like to be Sam Raimi when he was making Evil Dead.

[reboot]

Dr. DOS, from ancient history, the Alexandria Library contained all the treasures of the ancient world. All the knowledge of all the races, including all the world's known religions, all in one place, gathered mostly by Egypt’s King Ptolemy I (305-282bc). It's greatest secret is supposed to be the answer to how the Great Pyramids were really built.
As legend has it, Julius Caesar, while pursuing Pompey into Egypt, got cut off by the Egyptian fleet at Alexandria, and set it on fire. This fire destroyed the library...however...it is also rumoured that Ptolemy smuggled most of it's contents aboard ships, and had them set sail to unknown waters (the Atlantic ocean) to hide the treasures, so they wouldn't fall into Roman hands. From there, nobody knows. It's assumed the ships were lost at sea, in one of the North Atlantic's infamous storms. It's also rumored that no ships set sail, and all was destroyed, by any one of the three successors to rule Alexandria. It's also possible the treasures DID reach a foreign land (Greenland maybe?) and are still there, buried under centuries of ice.

[Capmaster]

Pharaoh Khufu of the old kingdom, fourth dynasty, ancient Egypt. That dude knew how to build monuments to himself,and party down 8)

[sacajaweeda]

Any one of these guys...

[Capmaster]

Dibs on the bacon

[offline]

Pharaoh Khufu of the old kingdom, fourth dynasty, ancient Egypt. That dude knew how to build monuments to himself,and party down 8)

So you want to be a "mummy". Why am I not suprised 8)

[shoozleboy]

I like the coalman's response..... so I'll take care of the 'other front':

Person: General George S. Patton
Time: August 31, 1939
Place: Western Poland with a couple of divisions of M1A1 battle tanks and a burr up my ass.....

It was that or:

Person: Me
Time: late 1923 to early 1924
Place: Landsberg Prison, Germany - with a shank in my boot.... hunting down my target.... (see if you history buffs can figure out who that might be)

[Shadowmistress]

Excellent shot!
You need an ambulance there cap?

[thecoalman]

and a burr up my ass.....

I think just saying Patton would have sufficed.

[Capmaster]

Pharaoh Khufu of the old kingdom, fourth dynasty, ancient Egypt. That dude knew how to build monuments to himself,and party down 8)

So you want to be a "mummy". Why am I not suprised 8)

Not the way he is now

Take a person
Take a period in time
Take a place.

Then

[Ripper2860]

I think he was referring to "Mummy" as in "Mommy".

[Capmaster]

Excellent shot!
You need an ambulance there cap?

Naw. I just tripped and passed out. Nothing serious

[Hardcoreruss]

Anyone who has slept with either Angelina Jolie or Kate Beckingsale.

[Doramius]

Anyone who has slept with either Angelina Jolie or Kate Beckingsale.

You'd probably change you mind if any one of the guys here wanted to be Angelina Jolie or Kate Beckinsale. :P

I'd be Bill Gates. Yeah, I'd be a nerd, but I'm rich and hot chicks from all over want to lay me.

[daamon]

Who: The person who found Jimmy Hendrix dead.
When: Just before he started loading himself up on whatever he was on.
Where: Walking into the London flat to stop him from doing it...

Or...

Who: Neil Armstrong.
When: Moments before blast off...
Where: ...in Apollo 11.

[Capmaster]

Damn, I wish I had said that, Daamon Good answer (Apollo 11)

[shoozleboy]

I like the coalman's response..... so I'll take care of the 'other front':

Person: Me
Time: late 1923 to early 1924
Place: Landsberg Prison, Germany - with a shank in my boot.... hunting down my target.... (see if you history buffs can figure out who that might be)

hmmmm... no history buffs?? Coalman??

[daamon]

Damn, I wish I had said that, Daamon Good answer (Apollo 11)

Ha ha... If it's any consolation, I was equally impressed with your "Pharaoh Khufu" suggestion... In fact, anytime during the great Egyptian era would've been amazing. I reckon Ramses 2nd and the battle with the Hittites at Kadesh, to name but one...

If you're into ancient Egyptian history, I'd strongly recommend a series of five books by Christian Jacq chronicalling the life of Ramses 2nd.

Even if you're not into it, they're a bloody good read. And they really add to the experience if you ever get to go to Luxor, where the valley of the Kings and Queens is, along with the great temples of Karnak and Luxor.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Henry the 8th,that guy knew how to treat women.
:P
"It's good to be king".

@shoozleboy,
Hitler?

[daamon]

Henry the 8th,that guy knew how to treat women.
:P
"It's good to be king".

You could've picked more interesting / better kings. Henry VIII was a bloater who sat around chopping people's heads off - not just his wives!

How about somebody like Richard the Lionheart and his crusades off to the Middle East with his warrior monks (the Knights Templar) to spread Christianity? Sod the religious stuff, but what an adventure!

[yoda313]

Hello,

Ancient Egypt for sure.....

Kevin

(any King, )

[Ripper2860]

Person: Me
Time: late 1923 to early 1924
Place: Landsberg Prison, Germany - with a shank in my boot.... hunting down my target.... (see if you history buffs can figure out who that might be)

That would be where Hitler was imprisoned and wrote Mein Kampf.

No Google -- Just saw a Discovery Channel Special a couple of weeks ago on Hitler's rise to power and the SA / SS.


Now mine.

Person: Dallas ISD employee
Time: Nov. 22nd 1963 am.
Place: Dallas School Book Depository kicking the shit out Lee Harvey Oswald after finding him settling into his sniper's perch!!

[reboot]

Dallas School Book Depository kicking the shit out Lee Harvey Oswald after finding him settling into his sniper's perch!!

only to find out later that he never fired a single shot, and JFK dies anyhow from another shot behind the grassy knoll and a puff of smoke...

[Capmaster]

Damn, I wish I had said that, Daamon Good answer (Apollo 11)

Ha ha... If it's any consolation, I was equally impressed with your "Pharaoh Khufu" suggestion... In fact, anytime during the great Egyptian era would've been amazing. I reckon Ramses 2nd and the battle with the Hittites at Kadesh, to name but one...

If you're into ancient Egyptian history, I'd strongly recommend a series of five books by Christian Jacq chronicalling the life of Ramses 2nd.

Even if you're not into it, they're a bloody good read. And they really add to the experience if you ever get to go to Luxor, where the valley of the Kings and Queens is, along with the great temples of Karnak and Luxor.

Way ahead of ya. We went to Egypt last winter

Here's me and my son Justin entering the Red Pyramid at Dahshur. I'm the one in the red baseball cap (pic center) and he's right in front of me:



We have lots and lots of pics.