Places & Times You'd Like to Visit

[Valmy]

Just make a few jokes about how stupid the Euboeans are.  I hear those brought down the house in Ancient Athens.

[ulmont]

Let's say that you have a time machine.  What places/periods would you visit?  What would you want to see the most?

September 1986, to buy Microsoft.  Or just two weeks ago, to buy a better lottery ticket.

[The Brain]

Let's say that you have a time machine.  What places/periods would you visit?  What would you want to see the most?

September 1986, to buy Microsoft.  Or just two weeks ago, to buy a better lottery ticket.

What happened in 1986?

[lustindarkness]

What happened in 1986?

January 19 – The first PC virus, Brain, starts to spread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986

[ulmont]

What happened in 1986?

Microsoft became a public company in March.  September was pretty much their lowest stock price ever.

[The Brain]

What happened in 1986?

January 19 – The first PC virus, Brain, starts to spread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986

[The Brain]

What happened in 1986?

Microsoft became a public company in March.  September was pretty much their lowest stock price ever.

Gotcha.

[Ed Anger]

I'd go back and smother the entire Comnenus clan.

[Caliga]

Also, I'd go back and introduce gangsta rap to the ancient Romans, because I think they'd come up with some amusing rhymes.

[Queequeg]

Also, I'd go back and introduce gangsta rap to the ancient Romans, because I think they'd come up with some amusing rhymes.

Somewhat funny, as I've always thought Romance languages made better sounding rap than Germanic languages.  It flows nicely. 

[Ed Anger]

I'd also go back in time and break Spellus's computer, so this thread doesn't exist.

[Caliga]

Somewhat funny, as I've always thought Romance languages made better sounding rap than Germanic languages.  It flows nicely.

When I was in college, we used to translate rock lyrics into Latin.  Proud Mary sounds quite good in Latin, IIRC.  I couldn't begin to tell you exactly what we translated it into, though.

[garbon]

I'd also go back in time and break Spellus's computer, so this thread doesn't exist.

[garbon]

When I was in college, we used to translate rock lyrics into Latin.  Proud Mary sounds quite good in Latin, IIRC.  I couldn't begin to tell you exactly what we translated it into, though.

Languish is dying!!!  I'm pretty sure that you've said this before as well as the bit about the Aeroflot kid incident (our discussion of the last bit could scarcely have been more than a few months ago).

[Caliga]

I'm gonna be one of those old guys at the nursing home who tells every story 600 times.