If you could meet anybody...

[brainsmile]

1. Past
2. Present
3. Future

who would it be and what would you ask or tell him/her.

[Ladogaboy]

GAM!!! :P

[OC]

Past - Benjamin Franklin
Present - Bill Clinton
Future - myself

-OC

[brainsmile]

Past - Teddy Roosevelt
Present - Alan Greenspan
Future - Me to tell myself all the things that happen or need to be focused upon

[hapoo]

Originally posted by overclocked

Future - myself

-OC


Damn, thats a good answer!
Yeah, i wouldn't mind meeting myself... provided i go down the same path i'm taking now.

[mojo]

1. past:

howard hughes when he was stranded on the freeway, i'd ask if he needed a ride. then i'd suggest getting some pretty good documentation that i was in his will. publicity wouldn't hurt, either.

2. present:

gwen stefani...i'd ask her if she really thinks that guitarist guy is working out for her...and if she's considered getting a new one *hint, hint* :deal:

3. future:

i'd like to meet just about any authority on sports and ask some key questions regarding the winners of certain sports events for the next 10 or so years (of my lifetime).

[hapoo]

Originally posted by mojo

3. future:

i'd like to meet just about any authority on sports and ask some key questions regarding the winners of certain sports events for the next 10 or so years (of my lifetime).


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[Got Apex Moderator]

Originally posted by Ladogaboy
GAM!!! :P Expect to see a raise in your forum pay Ladogaboy

[NuTs62]

Originally posted by Got Apex Moderator
Expect to see a raise in your forum pay Ladogaboy

hey! he stole that answer off my sheet!! :bawl:

Don't worry you have plenty of time to study in college. :P

[ufcrusher]

Well it depends on a couple of things.

First off, would meeting these people and having interactions with them result in changes to the world? I mean if I said, I would like to meet X and then I killed X, would it change the present?

Second, assuming that we could interact with them, what is it limited to...is it only talking or could we say dispose of them?

So assuming that I could talk with the person but it would not change the future:

Past: My Grandfather...he died a year before I was born and from what everyone says was a very interesting person. I would really like to find out about his life because there is a bunch of stuff that the government wont release yet.

Present: Its a split between Kevin Smith, who seems to be extremely interesting and Yassir Arafat, who I would put down like the dog that he is! (yes, I dont care if this changes the future because it can only be better without him)

Future: I would like to meet the person who assinated Arafat.:D

Now assuming that I could talk and interact with the person and although it would change the present it would leave my life alone.

Past: Adolf Hitler - I would eliminate him with extreme prejudice.
Present and Future would be changed so I cant predict who I would want to talk to.

[hapoo]

its impossible to know how your actions in the past (or present for that matter) will effect the future ufcrusher, you may end up causing something worse.

[Raider007]

1. Past - Soemone from the Bible
2. Present - Natalie Portman :D (she's hot)
3. Future - Someone in a sports store with all the winning scores in sports/lotto from the early 50's to the "present", then i'd go and place some bets :D

[GraingerGuy]

1. It would be cool to Jesus in person! :) But if that is not a valid option...I would want to meet Beethoven.

2. John Williams...he's awesome

3. I agree with OC....it would be cool to meet myself...but then I would cause the universe to explode according to Doc Brown...:)

[topane]

Hard to narrow these down.

Past - Thomas Jefferson
Present - Geddy Lee
Future - myself (I'm with OC on this one)

[oblongmelon]

Past-Mel Gibson as a 20 year old
Present-Mel Gibson
Future-Mel Gibson in the nursing home, talking about our wonderful life together..

[Merlin]

From the past it is a toss up between Alexander the Great - Ceasar - Gen. Douglas McCarthur - Babe Ruth (now that guy partied hard).

From the present - Stephen Hawking - the Pope - the Dali Lama - The Playmate of the Year

In the future I'd love to meet Capt. Kirk (provided of course that I'm NOT wearing a red shirt)

[mojo]

Originally posted by GraingerGuy
1. It would be cool to Jesus in person! :) But if that is not a valid option...I would want to meet Beethoven.that should be a valid option. most people prolly wouldn't debate as to whether he existed so much as in what capacity he existed.

beethoven would be interesting to meet. would you wanna meet the beethoven as portrayed by gary oldman, or john belushi :hihi:

[WhiskeyPapa]

Can we take the person we meet in the present with us to the past? If so, then I pick Bill Clinton and Abe Lincoln.

"Mr. Lincoln, I would appreciate it if you'd stay here and talk with me. Bill, why don't you go have a nice evening at the theater..."

[WhiskeyPapa]

Originally posted by GraingerGuy
1. It would be cool to Jesus in person! :)

Why not just see him in the future? :)

[Merlin]

Originally posted by kb0wwp


Why not just see him in the future? :)

Because when Jesus comes back he'll probably be pretty pissed a the mess we've made of things.

[brainsmile]

Originally posted by ufcrusher
Well it depends on a couple of things.

First off, would meeting these people and having interactions with them result in changes to the world? I mean if I said, I would like to meet X and then I killed X, would it change the present?

Second, assuming that we could interact with them, what is it limited to...is it only talking or could we say dispose of them?

So assuming that I could talk with the person but it would not change the future:

Past: My Grandfather...he died a year before I was born and from what everyone says was a very interesting person. I would really like to find out about his life because there is a bunch of stuff that the government wont release yet.

Present: Its a split between Kevin Smith, who seems to be extremely interesting and Yassir Arafat, who I would put down like the dog that he is! (yes, I dont care if this changes the future because it can only be better without him)

Future: I would like to meet the person who assinated Arafat.:D

Now assuming that I could talk and interact with the person and although it would change the present it would leave my life alone.

Past: Adolf Hitler - I would eliminate him with extreme prejudice.
Present and Future would be changed so I cant predict who I would want to talk to. Maybe this is way off base but would you happen to be Jewish?

[brainsmile]

Originally posted by hapoo
its impossible to know how your actions in the past (or present for that matter) will effect the future ufcrusher, you may end up causing something worse. yup... I agree... it's like this one episode in Star Trek Voyager, or was it TNG, or was it the original series? Oh yeah... it was all three

[WhiskeyPapa]

Originally posted by ufcrusher
Past: My Grandfather...he died a year before I was born and from what everyone says was a very interesting person. I would really like to find out about his life because there is a bunch of stuff that the government wont release yet.
Ok, I'll bite. Who was your grandpa?

[attgig]

Originally posted by cpugeek04
present-all you guys

AWWWWWW:)

I'm with kb0wwp, who was your grandpa...and which government?
what did he do?
or are you going to have to kill us after telling us?


anyways,
if this was to meet them to have a deep, inspirational conversation with....
my answers to all 3 would be Jesus..
but after Him....
1) Paul(of the new testament variety)
2) errr, boy this is tough.... Billy Graham
3) my wife :) - then I'll know who to chase after :)

[Jihforce]

Past - Bill Gates (Buddy up with him and Paul Allen so we can all start MS together)
Present - Jessica Alba (So I can marry her and have the nicest wedding paid for with billions i've made from MS)
Future - Myself (So I can warn myself of potential backstabbers)

[DoPeY5007]

MJ :D




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[brainsmile]

MJ? I not I

[GraingerGuy]

Originally posted by kb0wwp


Why not just see him in the future? :)

Hmmm...that's true! :D

[gaemul]

1. past-jinsook, my girlfriend. Just to see what she was like in the past.
2. present-gwenneth paltrow. no explanation required.
3. future-my wife so I can see if it's jinsook

[ufcrusher]

Yes, I am Jewish, but a lot of people here probably already know that.

Honestly I wasnt fishing for interest in my grandfather, he is just someone who I would have liked to meet. But since you asked here are some of the more noteworthy things:

Created the idea of the ARCO go patrol - which to put it simply was the predecessor to the lovely helicopter overflights giving traffic reports.

Was purportedly in the CIA although we can not get any confirmation of this. The government told us that his file is still sealed, although I thought that it was supposed to be unsealed after 25 years.

Went to Austria and Germany as a spy for the US during the war. One of the first to witness concentration camps, liberated the camps, and also located my great grandfather (his father) who was intered in a camp.

Was the only telecommunications engineer that Israel would allow in to work on their systems when israel was first formed.

Was constantly being sent away and wherever he was sent all hell broke loose. (That is according to everyone who was alive then). Most of the time he couldnt even say where he was being sent.

Well I am sure that was not what anyone expected, but you asked so I answered.

[mojo]

Originally posted by DarkFury
Future - The girl in my avatar. Man... that BOOTAY is just too fine to pass up. :hihi: ya, she'll look like that well into her 90s i'm sure :hihi:

[Kim]

Wow ufcrusher, I bet your grandpa would have some good stories to tell!


Who would I meet? Future: My great grandkids. Past: My Great-Great grandparents, so I could tell then NOT to sell their homestead in Jackson Hole! I don't know who to meet in the present, I guess all my online friends.

[BigJon]

Past

Michael Jackson, just as he got popular (before the nosejob, the whitening, the "incidents" and such). He is a great musical artist.

Present

Y'all

Future

Myself...don't know why...just because.

[whitak24]

past: james madison, thomas jefferson

present: i'm not sure....hard to choose between some hot supermodel or someone like bill clinton

future: once again, i'm not sure. probably myself

[DoPeY5007]

Originally posted by DarkFury

Ummm.. if you know your backstabbers now... why would you have to go into the future and warn yourself again? Shouldn't you already know them by then?

Maybe you should warn the "past" you about those backstabbers. :hihi: I think he ment it so his future self can warn him. ;)

[hapoo]

Originally posted by whitak24

present: i'm not sure....hard to choose between some hot supermodel or someone like bill clinton


Well at least if you meet bill clinton you also get to meet a nice intern or two as well.

[molecularfire]

Past: Myself, I would bring back a bunch of cheap electronics (or something of that sort) and go back to when I could get a lot for them. Then, I would take that money and invest in microsoft, (heck, set up an automatic buy in aff for just when it got out and sell, just before it plateaus.

Future: Myself, so that I could take that money and buy some really cool gizmo's to bring back to the present.

Present: sell the gizmo's that I got from the future, become super rich and then I can see whoever else I want. :D

[whitak24]

Originally posted by cpugeek04

:neartears: you don't wanna meet us
i already planned meeting you guys a long time ago in the one "GA Roadtrip" thread (remember, DF and i were going to meet and drive all over the country to see everyone?)

Originally posted by hapoo
Well at least if you meet bill clinton you also get to meet a nice intern or two as well.
i have yet to see Clinton bag a woman who is fairly attractive. monica? no thanks
gennifer? no thanks
paula? no way
hillary? no f--king way in hell!

:heh:

[Jihforce]

Originally posted by DarkFury

Ummm.. if you know your backstabbers now... why would you have to go into the future and warn yourself again? Shouldn't you already know them by then?

Maybe you should warn the "past" you about those backstabbers. :hihi:

Well the idea is to find out who are the folks that will backstabb me in the future. So I can tell myself in the present to watch out for them. Confused yet? :D

[Jihforce]

Originally posted by DoPeY5007
I think he ment it so his future self can warn him. ;)

Ah dang, i'm always one step behind you guys. :heh:
Thanks Dopester! :P