If I could turn back time...

[alleyallen]

No, it's not about Cher, dammit!

If you could go back in time and witness one event, or be involved in one event, in your life or at any point in history -- WITHOUT actually affecting the future -- what would you do? Where would you go?

Would you off Hitler (again...the assumption is you could do it but it wouldn't actually change anything)? Would you kiss that girl at the eighth-grade prom? Would you pull out?

 

[Songbird]

on a personal level i'd have finished what i started with s.e. from santa maria and we'd be married with kids.

on an historic level, would've gone up to the book depository on nov. 22, 1963, and taken out oswald before he pulled the trigger (though there may have been another gunman).

 

[fromthebluegrass]

I would like to attend the court of Henry VII ... but only if I were a member of nobility.

 

[Lieslntx]

Lord have mercy, AA. You seriously gave my heart a scare. I read the title of the thread, saw it was started by you and thought, "What the hell has he done this time??"

Before I give my answer to the question, I want to hear yours...

 

[dooley_womack1]

Lord have mercy, AA. You seriously gave my heart a scare.

Yeah, I thought he was a Cher fan.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Lord have mercy, AA. You seriously gave my heart a scare.

Yeah, I thought he was a Cher fan.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, right?

 

[kingcreole]

The assassination of JFK.

From a sports standpoint, the United States beating England at the 1950 World Cup. Holy ****, that would have been awesome to see!

 

[old_tony]

So you can go back and witness it, but not change it?

Rats. I was going to say I'd go back to when my paper's EE's parents met and block it.

 

[BYH]

Non-important division: One of the most popular girls in my sixth-grade class liked me, but I was too chicken**** to "ask her out." Yeah, we "asked girls out" in sixth grade. The inability to pull the trigger was a common theme right up until it took me nearly three weeks to ask out my future wife in the fall of 1994...even though we'd gone to lunch nearly every single day during that span and even though the entire office knew we were falling madly in love with each other. How much luckier would I have gotten would have things changed if I'd been a little gutsier with the ladies?

Sporting division: US beats Russia in the 1980 Olympics. Not even a hockey fan, but it's the most seismic sporting event I can recall.

Historical division: JFK's assassination. A first-hand view of the moment between Before and After.

That's three. Oh well! If you don't like it, AA, you can suck it!!!

 

[Armchair_QB]

I'd choke the **** out of Steve Bartman before he leaned over the rail.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Non-important division: One of the most popular girls in my sixth-grade class liked me, but I was too chicken**** to "ask her out." Yeah, we "asked girls out" in sixth grade. The inability to pull the trigger was a common theme right up until it took me nearly three weeks to ask out my future wife in the fall of 1994...even though we'd gone to lunch nearly every single day during that span and even though the entire office knew we were falling madly in love with each other. How much luckier would I have gotten would have things changed if I'd been a little gutsier with the ladies?

Sporting division: US beats Russia in the 1980 Olympics. Not even a hockey fan, but it's the most seismic sporting event I can recall.

Historical division: JFK's assassination. A first-hand view of the moment between Before and After.

That's three. Oh well! If you don't like it, AA, you can suck it!!!

The "pulling the trigger" thing is an issue not so much anymore.

 

[BYH]

I'd choke the **** out of Steve Bartman before he leaned over the rail.

Alou still would have dropped it.

 

[Dickens Cider]

I'd choke the **** out of Steve Bartman before he leaned over the rail.

Wasn't that game more Alex Gonzalez's fault?

 

[mustangj17]

I would love to go back and be there for the battles of Concord and Lexington and the Shot heard round the world. Something like that. Maybe the be one of the Pilgrims making it to America. There's a lot to choose from, but definitely something involving the early stages of our country.

 

[Lieslntx]

Historical: I would have wanted to travel the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon. I know, it's corny.

Sports-related: I would have wanted to be at the Oilers/Steelers game so that I could have screamed at the refs in person instead of just screaming at my television.

Personal life: I would have said "No."

 

[alleyallen]

A couple of my back-in-time moments, if I could...

Nov. 22, 1963, like many people.
Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor.
In the court of Henry V moments before the Battle of Agincourt.

On a personal level, I'd go back to 1991 and see what might have happened with me and a young woman named Dena. I was in the Navy, stationed in Virginia and Dena was back home in Texas, but I ended up meeting and marrying Ruthie. Not that I regret marrying Ruthie (not at all...) but Dena was my first love and it would have been interesting to see what might have happened.

 

[mike311gd]

Historical: I would have wanted to travel the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon. I know, it's corny.

It's also quite dangerous.

 

[forever_town]

Sorry. The only event I'd want to be involved with would involve changing history.

It would be to shake some sense into my parents and actually have them divorce when they separated the first time.

 

[Habeas Corpus]

Would my safety be assured? If so, it would have to be D-Day. But I wouldn't want to just be plopped down on the beach in the middle of the invasion.

 

[fromthebluegrass]

Historical: I would have wanted to travel the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon. I know, it's corny.

Would you ford a river?