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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 11:32 AM
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Poll question: If you had a time machine, which of these places would you most like to visit?
Edited on Fri Jun-22-07 11:33 AM by Merrick
Perhaps I need some cheering up...
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cobalt1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 11:42 AM
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1. Can't I choose someplace like...
oh, Sutter's Farm in California in 1847 BEFORE anyone noticed all that gold laying around?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 11:57 AM
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3. I suppose...
If you prefer not to conquer the linearity of the space/time continuum merely to die a horrifying death in some terrible past cataclysm. Your prerogative, I guess.
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cobalt1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 04:05 PM
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26. okay, then take me to Mount St. Helens on the morning of May 18, 1980
I think I'll take a little hike on the northern face.
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SacredCow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 11:49 AM
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2. Mine is kind of unspecific.....
I'd have to find out when the shrubs first ancestor arrived in the US, then I would apply the full 1.21 jigowatts directly to his forehead....
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 12:03 PM
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4. Galveston, September 8, 1900. Would that count?
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 12:37 PM
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6. I read a good book about that hurricane - Isaac's Storm
I recommend it.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:16 PM
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12. Excellent book indeed
May I also recommend Rising Tide, the Great MS Flood of 1927 and how it changed America.

I can't get enough of books about Mother Nature.
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 03:23 PM
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24. Have you read The Jonestown Flood, by David McCullough?
Another good one.
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 12:35 PM
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5. San Francisco, October 17, 1989.
:scared:
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EnviroBat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 12:49 PM
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7. My first girlfriends basement on the night we "got together"...
Man, ya just never forget the first one...
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:11 PM
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9. But sometimes you wish you could
:)
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EnviroBat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:14 PM
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11. True Dat...
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anarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 12:50 PM
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8. L.A., December 21, 2012
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:13 PM
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10. None of the above - I would like to go back to where I last had my purse
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:37 PM
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16. sorry, but . . . LOL
did you look in the fridge? :pals:
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 03:50 PM
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25. I did!
So far there has been no activity on any of my accounts. So I am thinking it is here somewhere.

I looked in the oven too.
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qdemn7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:19 PM
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13. November 22, 1963.
Dealey Plaza, Dallas.. 6th floor of Texas Schoolbook Depository at 1200 noon.
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:21 PM
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14. Golgotha...
Good Friday, 0 AD.

I'd like to stay until at least the following Sunday.
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:43 PM
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18. I think you mean 33 AD
Things might have been a bit slow thirty-three years earlier.
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:47 PM
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20. Yep...you're right.
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WilmywoodNCparalegal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:28 PM
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15. Pompeii
Edited on Fri Jun-22-07 01:29 PM by NYCparalegal
Specifically, the brothels of Pompeii

:evilgrin:
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otherlander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:46 PM
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19. That's hot.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:40 PM
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17. Monterey Pop Festival 1967
Imagine the thrill of seeing the emergence of Hendrix, the Who, Otis Redding and all the other stellar artists that performed there
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Tyrone Slothrop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:47 PM
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21. Tunguska, Siberia, June 30, 1908 n/t
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Throwing Stones Donating Member (730 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:50 PM
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22. I'd like to go back to 2000 and stop Katherine Harris
But I suppose those bastards would've figured out another way to steal the election.
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RushIsRot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:53 PM
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23. I'd visit Walden Pond between July 4, 1845
and September 6, 1847. Those were the dates Thoreau lived in his cabin there.
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hellbound-liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 05:32 PM
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29. Hey RushIsRot! This is the best response to this thread so far.
I would have loved to meet Thoreau myself. He is one of my all time heroes. I used to read Walden as therapy whenever I was feeling down. It helped to keep me grounded and focused on what is really important in life.
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RushIsRot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 08:34 PM
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30. Well, thank you! Have you ever visited Walden Pond?
I've been there three times. My first visit, I got to paddle around the entire pond at sunrise in a kayak.

I became a life member of the Thoreau Society at age 19. One of my high school English teachers in 1956, introduced HDT to me after I mentioned to her that I enjoyed reading Cache Lake Country by Rowlands.
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 05:26 PM
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27. I want to go back to June 22 2007..That would be SOOOO Cool.
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 05:26 PM
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28. Prague in the 1800's ...
Sigh.
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