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Sharop 10-11-2006, 02:36 PM If you had a time machine, where would you go and what would you do?
For me:
1: I'd stop the Twin Towers disaster.
2: I'd prevent the tsunami (or at least warn everyone about it.)
3: I'd hit Mark Chapman over the head with something hard (just to knock him out) and rescue John Lennon.
4: I'd warn Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens and pilot Roger Peterson not to board the plane on 4th February 1959.
5: I'd tell Steve Irwin to pass up swimming with the stingrays.
6: I'd go back to about October 2002 and tell Maurice Gibb to get himself checked out in a hospital for signs of a twisted intestine (he died from complications that arose from his intestine bursting.)
7: I'd go back to Jesus's time and introduce him and everyone else to TV, music from the last sixty or so years, films, books, pizza, soft drinks, and all the other great stuff we have now.
8: I'd spend some time just hanging out and having fun in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Fleet 10-11-2006, 03:16 PM If you had a time machine, where would you go and what would you do?
7: I'd go back to Jesus's time and introduce him and everyone else to TV, music from the last sixty or so years, films, books, pizza, soft drinks, and all the other great stuff we have now.
That's a good one! Especially the pizza.
I would choose:
The 1950s. Just to walk down a 1950s city street, go into a market and maybe a school and look around. It was so much different back then that it would be interesting. I would also have to watch one of those '50s street races.
The Old West, circa 1880. Again, I would walk around in an actual western town (no particular town, maybe Dodge City, Deadwood or Tombstone), and see how it was really like. Also walk into a real 1880s saloon. I can do what "Marty" did in "Back to the Future" and say my name is "Clint Eastwood."
April, 1969, to watch my Cadillac being built.
1865, to prevent the Lincoln assassination.
Central Perk 10-11-2006, 04:18 PM I'd go back to the Roaring Twenties for a bit. :D
BrownEyedGirl523 10-11-2006, 04:23 PM Just this summer, I was thinking how awesome it would be if I could go back in time. The first thing I would do would probably be to warn Selena and Judith Barsi of their untimely demises. Then I'd probably go back a few years and take the chances that I never took, something I've always regretted. Then I'd just chill in the late '70s (and meet Leif Garrett when he was hot, haha) and then the '80s, because I am fascinated by '80s culture (probably because I remember so little of it).
moeee 10-11-2006, 04:46 PM I would like to go back into the early 1970's. I always hear from older people that those were fun years.
Already Gone 10-11-2006, 06:43 PM I'd go back to 1969 and watch the moon landing on TV.
Then, i'd go to July 4th 1976 to celebrate the bicentennial.
I'd go to the late 80's and tape all episodes of It's a Living and bring them back to the present.
Then, i'd go to November 29, 1977, for my parents wedding anniversary party. It would be fun to be there as an adult.
Janice 10-11-2006, 07:30 PM I'd like to go back to the mid-80s. I was recently married, my loved ones were alive. Life was less complicated back then.
Jrnygrl 10-11-2006, 07:34 PM I would go back to Aug. 8, 1993 and stop my sister from marrying the jerk she married.
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Steve M. 10-11-2006, 08:07 PM I'd stop the John Lennon assassination, the King, JFK and RFK assassinations, and stop the Twin Towers from being built and Amtrak from being destroyed.
I'd go back to Detroit in 1979 and convince Madonna to become an interior decorator.
I'd go back to Indiana in 1967 and convince Dan Quayle to become a golf pro and not get sidetracked into a useless desk job.
I'd kill Hitler.
Number 9 Dream 10-11-2006, 08:08 PM Same here. Actually, I've been asked this question before and I always give this answer: I'd want to go back to 1964 as a pre-teen (say, maybe 11 or 12?) so I could witness the Beatles land in America (and be a part of the whole Beatlemania craze), and then 'grow up' in to my early-mid 20's in the 70's.
Then again, I might like to take a visit to the 50's as well :)
I would like to go back into the early 1970's. I always hear from older people that those were fun years.
Fleet 10-11-2006, 11:00 PM I'd go back to Detroit in 1979 and convince Madonna to become an interior decorator.
I sure wish that happened!
tdf4077 10-11-2006, 11:17 PM I vote to go back to November 22, 1963 and warn JFK to avoid Dallas that day.
I'd otherwise love to spend time as a teen in the '50's!
dawsongirl 10-11-2006, 11:38 PM I'd go back to Detroit in 1979 and convince Madonna to become an interior decorator.
I'd go back to Indiana in 1967 and convince Dan Quayle to become a golf pro and not get sidetracked into a useless desk job.
:lol:
dawsongirl 10-11-2006, 11:41 PM I'd go back to the late 60s/early 70s, head to Hollywood, and just soak it all up. And watch a LOT of TV.
And if we're all going to warn people of their future demise, I'd go tell Bill Bixby to go see a doctor in, oh, 1989 or 90. Early than 1991 anyway.
Steve M. 10-12-2006, 09:55 AM I'd go back to the early sixties as well, and warn the bosses at Studebaker to watch their backs to keep them from going out of business. They made some really nice cars. :)
Penny Lane 10-12-2006, 10:21 AM I would go back to my childhood in the 50's and back to the 70's when my kids were little.
passionsfan79 10-12-2006, 09:19 PM Id go back to the 50s or 70s
Brieannas21 10-12-2006, 10:04 PM I would go back to 1986, I was 5 and life was great.
rusyd 10-13-2006, 12:17 AM I would go back to the 40's or 50's because life seemed so much simpler then.
treky 10-13-2006, 01:18 AM I'd go back to July, 1969 and watch the moon landing all over again and bring a VCR so I could record it!
No; but seriousley; did you ever wonder how you would get BACK if you went back in time?
Sharop 10-13-2006, 09:42 AM INo; but seriousley; did you ever wonder how you would get BACK if you went back in time?
Well, if you went back in a time machine, you'd just program it to take you back to the future.
However, if you just accidentally found yourself in the past, with no aid of a machine at all, and no way to get back, then you'd have a problem.
Steve M. 10-13-2006, 10:05 AM I would go back to the 40's or 50's because life seemed so much simpler then.
Hmm, simpler. . . . Let's see. . . the forties included WWII, Htiler, the Holocaust, and recession. The fifties included Joe McCarthy, the Korean War, atomic weapons, women in the kitchen, and a lot of black people hanging from trees. :eek:
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Czas na Zywiec 10-13-2006, 02:16 PM You can't prevent people from dying. If you went back in time and saved someone from dying, time would have been altered to where the person never would be killed, fast forward back to the future, and you would have never had a reason to go back and save someone because they were never killed in the first place. Not like traveling back in time is possible in the first place, but if it was, any little alteration would likely change pretty much everything we know now.
Sharop 10-13-2006, 02:21 PM You can't prevent people from dying. If you went back in time and saved someone from dying, time would have been altered to where the person never would be killed, fast forward back to the future, and you would have never had a reason to go back and save someone because they were never killed in the first place. Not like traveling back in time is possible in the first place, but if it was, any little alteration would likely change pretty much everything we know now.
Someone came up with a theory that if one travels into the past and changes it (either by killing someone, or preventing someone from dying, or anything else), then when this act that changes the past has been committed, this instantly creates an alternate reality. So the reality that the time traveller is in has become one where the person lives, although the reality where the person dies (the one the time-traveller came from) still exists. It's just that the time traveller is no longer in that reality, because he created an alternate reality by saving the person from dying.
Czas na Zywiec 10-13-2006, 03:01 PM Someone came up with a theory that if one travels into the past and changes it (either by killing someone, or preventing someone from dying, or anything else), then when this act that changes the past has been committed, this instantly creates an alternate reality. So the reality that the time traveller is in has become one where the person lives, although the reality where the person dies (the one the time-traveller came from) still exists. It's just that the time traveller is no longer in that reality, because he created an alternate reality by saving the person from dying.
It's like the whole "killing your grandfather" theory. If you did that, it would have caused one of your parents to not be born, and in turn you to not be born, so you would have never been born, thus having never traveled back into time and killed your grandfather. Impossible.
rusyd 10-13-2006, 03:45 PM Hmm, simpler. . . . Let's see. . . the forties included WWII, Htiler, the Holocaust, and recession. The fifties included Joe McCarthy, the Korean War, atomic weapons, women in the kitchen, and a lot of black people hanging from trees. :eek:
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That's why I said seemed. Each decade has it's share of good and bad, obviously. I just feel that those two decades would have been an intersting time to live in. My parents lived through them and had very good memories and memories of the above mentioned tragedies.
Janice Johnson 10-13-2006, 04:26 PM I would go back to 1987 and tell Michael Jackson that it's a bad idea for him to get any more plastic surgery(guy was HOT in 1987)............ I'd tell him not to hang out with little boys in the future.
Sharop 10-13-2006, 06:17 PM It's like the whole "killing your grandfather" theory. If you did that, it would have caused one of your parents to not be born, and in turn you to not be born, so you would have never been born, thus having never traveled back into time and killed your grandfather. Impossible.
Yes, but that's what I mean by the "Alternate Reality Theory."
If a person went back in time and killed their grandfather before their parent was conceived, then (according to the theory) that would create an Alternate Reality in which the time traveller wouldn't have been born. So once the time traveller killed the grandfather, that Past that the time traveller was in would become the Alternate Reality. However, the Reality in which the time traveller had not killed their grandfather would still exist, meaning that the time traveller had been born and gone back in time - it's just now that time traveller is now stuck in the Alternate Reality in which he's not going to be born.
Fleet 10-13-2006, 07:37 PM That's why I said seemed. Each decade has it's share of good and bad, obviously. I just feel that those two decades would have been an intersting time to live in. My parents lived through them and had very good memories and memories of the above mentioned tragedies.
Overall, things were MUCH better in the '40s and '50s. Yes, it was not perfect as Steve showed, but guns in school were unknown. Teen pregancies were practically unheard of as were couples living together instead of marrying, and divorces were nowhere near the 50% rate they are today because families stuck together more back then.
And I don't have to mention drug use... again, very rare to see illegal drugs in school in the '40s and '50s... I won't even mention how drug use in schools (and in society in general) exploded in the late '60s and into the '70s.
I've got a list somewhere of the main problems in school in the '40s and '90s. Here it is from memory:
'40s
1. Running in the halls
2. Chewing gum
3. Talking in class
1. Assaults
2. Drug use
3. Pregnancies
My Mom used to (alone) take a bus to work in a part of downtown in which today it would be very unwise for a lone woman to be at 5:30 in the morning.
Need I go on?
rusyd 10-13-2006, 09:06 PM Overall, things were MUCH better in the '40s and '50s. Yes, it was not perfect as Steve showed, but guns in school were unknown. Teen pregancies were practically unheard of as were couples living together instead of marrying, and divorces were nowhere near the 50% rate they are today because families stuck together more back then.
And I don't have to mention drug use... again, very rare to see illegal drugs in school in the '40s and '50s... I won't even mention how drug use in schools (and in society in general) exploded in the late '60s and into the '70s.
I've got a list somewhere of the main problems in school in the '40s and '90s. Here it is from memory:
'40s
1. Running in the halls
2. Chewing gum
3. Talking in class
1. Assaults
2. Drug use
3. Pregnancies
My Mom used to (alone) take a bus to work in a part of downtown in which today it would be very unwise for a lone woman to be at 5:30 in the morning.
Need I go on?
Very well put. Thank you for that. I can't always express how I want to say something and you hit it on the nail.:clap
Steve M. 10-14-2006, 05:16 PM Harry Truman proposed national health insurance back in 1946. As one of the 47 million Americans without it, I'd go back to 1946 and made damn sure it got passed.
Steve M. 10-14-2006, 05:21 PM Oh yeah, I'd go back to 1966 and stop passenger train service to my hometown from being discontinued and stop the freeway going through my mother'd hometown from being built. My mother's hometown is a sewer bceause of the freeway, and the only way to get to NYC from my hoemtown is the bus, wich isn't as nice as the train.
Czas na Zywiec 10-14-2006, 06:04 PM Overall, things were MUCH better in the '40s and '50s. Yes, it was not perfect as Steve showed, but guns in school were unknown. Teen pregancies were practically unheard of as were couples living together instead of marrying, and divorces were nowhere near the 50% rate they are today because families stuck together more back then.
And I don't have to mention drug use... again, very rare to see illegal drugs in school in the '40s and '50s... I won't even mention how drug use in schools (and in society in general) exploded in the late '60s and into the '70s.
I've got a list somewhere of the main problems in school in the '40s and '90s. Here it is from memory:
'40s
1. Running in the halls
2. Chewing gum
3. Talking in class
1. Assaults
2. Drug use
3. Pregnancies
My Mom used to (alone) take a bus to work in a part of downtown in which today it would be very unwise for a lone woman to be at 5:30 in the morning.
Need I go on?
which weren't as good as the 20s, which weren't as good as the 1860s, which werent as good as the 1700s. The further we progress in time, the more violent it gets. But also, the more diseases we cure, the longer lifespans we have, the more technology we have connecting people. I can talk to someone within seconds located in Austrailia, whereas a hundred years ago, it would have taken weeks to reach that person. And doctors are now working on technologies where they can operate on patients literally thousands of miles away. So you have lots of bad going on, but at the same time, you have so much good. You take the good with the bad.
Sharop 10-14-2006, 06:54 PM My Dad said they're working on some kind of technology that allows people to become a part of the TV show/film that they're watching - enables them to, for want of a better term, step inside the movie/show and visualise the characters and setting all around them.
This sounds great. It would be great to sit at Cheers whilst watching it and be a part of Back to the Future and all the other great cinematic adventures and television shows.
rusyd 10-14-2006, 09:18 PM which weren't as good as the 20s, which weren't as good as the 1860s, which werent as good as the 1700s. The further we progress in time, the more violent it gets. But also, the more diseases we cure, the longer lifespans we have, the more technology we have connecting people. I can talk to someone within seconds located in Austrailia, whereas a hundred years ago, it would have taken weeks to reach that person. And doctors are now working on technologies where they can operate on patients literally thousands of miles away. So you have lots of bad going on, but at the same time, you have so much good. You take the good with the bad.
That is very true. No matter what era of time you speak of there was good and bad.
rusyd 10-14-2006, 09:18 PM Harry Truman proposed national health insurance back in 1946. As one of the 47 million Americans without it, I'd go back to 1946 and made damn sure it got passed.
Amen to that!
treky 10-14-2006, 09:32 PM My Dad said they're working on some kind of technology that allows people to become a part of the TV show/film that they're watching - enables them to, for want of a better term, step inside the movie/show and visualise the characters and setting all around them.
This sounds great. It would be great to sit at Cheers whilst watching it and be a part of Back to the Future and all the other great cinematic adventures and television shows.
that sounds like the holodeck on Star Trek.
treky 10-14-2006, 09:41 PM which weren't as good as the 20s, which weren't as good as the 1860s, which werent as good as the 1700s. The further we progress in time, the more violent it gets. But also, the more diseases we cure, the longer lifespans we have, the more technology we have connecting people. I can talk to someone within seconds located in Austrailia, whereas a hundred years ago, it would have taken weeks to reach that person. And doctors are now working on technologies where they can operate on patients literally thousands of miles away. So you have lots of bad going on, but at the same time, you have so much good. You take the good with the bad.
I remember reading a story in a comic book back about 1966 or so; about a guy who was getting increasingly fed up all the violence, wars, etc. in the papers, on the news, etc. so he really did invent a time machine because he thought times would be better in an earlier era. So; he went back to various earlier time periods; but he found out EXACTLY what that post points out. And at the end he went back to his own period; and found out it wasn't so bad compared to a lot of things going on in earlier eras.
dawsongirl 10-14-2006, 09:54 PM I remember reading a story in a comic book back about 1966 or so; about a guy who was getting increasingly fed up all the violence, wars, etc. in the papers, on the news, etc. so he really did invent a time machine because he thought times would be better in an earlier era. So; he went back to various earlier time periods; but he found out EXACTLY what that post points out. And at the end he went back to his own period; and found out it wasn't so bad compared to a lot of things going on in earlier eras.
Yeah...I wouldn't want to go back to the 50s for anything. Waaaay too oppressed. The only people who weren't were probably white American men. And not being one of those, I choose to stay here.
Race's Girl 10-15-2006, 06:29 AM I think I'd like to back to either the 20s, the 50s or the 80s
Sharop 10-15-2006, 07:05 AM Yeah...I wouldn't want to go back to the 50s for anything.
Not even for the music?
I love 1950s music. I've been a fan of Buddy Holly since I was seven.
Tweety 10-15-2006, 11:27 AM If you had a time machine, where would you go and what would you do?
For me: ...
6: I'd go back to about October 2002 and tell Maurice Gibb to get himself checked out in a hospital for signs of a twisted intestine (he died from complications that arose from his intestine bursting.)
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We KNEW you'd work a Bee-Gees thing into your list somehow :lol:
Time-travel questions are always fun to think about. I loved time-travel stories when I was a kid.
You could even write the Bee Gees songs before they did... can you imagine... every time they come up with a great song, they'd find out it was already copyrighted... word for word, note for note! "We can't do this one, guys, someone's already written it!"
Of course, you could always allow them to record your songs...with or without financial 'reward' to you.... you could get yourself hired as their producer...and give them some great ideas as to how particular songs should be produced in the studio, for their albums...
Fleet 10-15-2006, 01:58 PM which weren't as good as the 20s, which weren't as good as the 1860s, which werent as good as the 1700s. The further we progress in time, the more violent it gets. But also, the more diseases we cure, the longer lifespans we have, the more technology we have connecting people. I can talk to someone within seconds located in Austrailia, whereas a hundred years ago, it would have taken weeks to reach that person. And doctors are now working on technologies where they can operate on patients literally thousands of miles away. So you have lots of bad going on, but at the same time, you have so much good. You take the good with the bad.
Going back before the '40s and '50s, it's getting too primative. The life span in the '20s was much shorter than today.
The '50s was the best ratio of old/new. New enough to have relatively advanced medical care, yet not so new as to have uncontrolled crime, drug use, unwed mothers, etc.
Fleet 10-15-2006, 02:01 PM Very well put. Thank you for that. I can't always express how I want to say something and you hit it on the nail.:clap
Yes, almost without exception, every time I asked someone who lived through the '50s, they say life in general was better back then. Less crowded, less crime, better schooling, higher morals, better manners, etc.
Pug Lover 10-16-2006, 02:03 PM Pardon me if this idea sounds a little bit lame.
I would like to go back in time to the year I was born,1970,and detour the city I live in.Just to see what it was like back then.That would be fun to do.
I would definetly see cutlass and mustang cars.Not minivans.All street lights would be white mercury.Not the bright orange sodium vapor street lights of today.Plus I would mostly hear phsycadelic sixties music,and many TV sets would still be black and white.No digital cable.
Tweety 10-16-2006, 03:12 PM Pardon me if this idea sounds a little bit lame.
I would like to go back in time to the year I was born,1970,and detour the city I live in.Just to see what it was like back then.That would be fun to do.
I would definetly see cutlass and mustang cars.Not minivans.All street lights would be white mercury.Not the bright orange sodium vapor street lights of today.Plus I would mostly hear phsycadelic sixties music,and many TV sets would still be black and white.No digital cable.
I think Tim McGraw said it best in "Back When":
"We've gotten too complicated
It's all way over-rated
I like the old and out-dated
Way of life"
(This is a GREAT song btw!)
Steve M. 10-16-2006, 03:34 PM We KNEW you'd work a Bee-Gees thing into your list somehow :lol:
Time-travel questions are always fun to think about. I loved time-travel stories when I was a kid.
You could even write the Bee Gees songs before they did... can you imagine... every time they come up with a great song, they'd find out it was already copyrighted... word for word, note for note! "We can't do this one, guys, someone's already written it!"
Of course, you could always allow them to record your songs...with or without financial 'reward' to you.... you could get yourself hired as their producer...and give them some great ideas as to how particular songs should be produced in the studio, for their albums...
What about the Illinois songwriter who wrote a song called "Let It End," sent a demo of it to record comapnies, and claimed the Bee Gees used it as the basis of "How Deep Is Your Love?" The Bee Gees were found guilty of plaigarism, then the verdict was overturned by a higher court.
I'd go back to 1977 and stop the making of the Sgt. Pepper movie to help get the Bee Gees out of it (which they wanted to do when they realized the movie was going to suck).
Tweety 10-16-2006, 03:37 PM ...
I'd go back to 1977 and stop the making of the Sgt. Pepper movie to help get the Bee Gees out of it (which they wanted to do when they realized the movie was going to suck).
OMG, you just won the Nobel Prize for best use of a time machine!!! That was the stupidest movie EVER MADE!!!! :)
Anyone out there with a time machine, THIS is what you need to do!!!!
rusyd 10-16-2006, 05:27 PM OMG, you just won the Nobel Prize for best use of a time machine!!! That was the stupidest movie EVER MADE!!!! :)
Anyone out there with a time machine, THIS is what you need to do!!!!
You are so right about that! I was a big Peter Frampton fan at the time and went to see it and was so disappointed.
Sharop 10-16-2006, 06:52 PM What about the Illinois songwriter who wrote a song called "Let It End," sent a demo of it to record comapnies, and claimed the Bee Gees used it as the basis of "How Deep Is Your Love?" The Bee Gees were found guilty of plaigarism, then the verdict was overturned by a higher court.
That was a guy called Ronald Selle. I'm convinced that the Bee Gees certainly didn't plagiarise his song, though. They'd been writing songs since they were kids - Barry himself was writing songs at the age of 12. I find it hard to imagine that after nearly 20 years of writing their own songs, they'd steal somebody else's. Secondly, it has been proven that it is in fact possible for two different people, or two different groups of people, to come up with exactly the same tune, without ever having heard the other's song. It's rare, yes, but it has been proved that it's possible.
I'm glad the verdict was eventually overturned. At the time, they said they intended to fight it, as they hated the idea of having their reputation as songwriters sullied.
Good suggestion, by the way, Tweety. :)
Tweety 10-16-2006, 10:36 PM Speaking of Sgt Peppers LHCB, I saw that as part of a double feature... in case you're wondering what the OTHER movie was, it as "More American Graffiti"...
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Kristen 10-16-2006, 10:42 PM This is a really good question. I think first of all, I'd like to go back and see my younger self. I'd tell myself some of the things I know now, so maybe I wouldn't make the same mistakes, or worry so much about what'd be when I grew up, etc. I would also like to go back and see some of my fave shows when they were being filmed. That would be really cool. And I'd like to take a peek into the future, maybe see where I am then.
D-Dey 10-17-2006, 08:19 AM Oh yeah, I'd go back to 1966 and stop passenger train service to my hometown from being discontinued and stop the freeway going through my mother'd hometown from being built. My mother's hometown is a sewer bceause of the freeway, and the only way to get to NYC from my hoemtown is the bus, wich isn't as nice as the train.
I'd do the opposite. I wouldn't stop passenger train service, partially because it never stopped. But I'd take picures of key locations on Long Island from the present and go back witht them telling people "this is what will happen if you stop this road from being finished," whether it's the Babylon-Northport Expressway, Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway, Atlantic Expressway, Hauppauge Spur, North Fork Extension of the Long Island Expressway, South Fork Extension of Sunrise Highway, or whatever other road projects shouldn't have been thwarted.
I'd also take some footage of the Fall of Saigon and it's aftermath, as well as the Khmer Rouge genocide, and tell the hippies "these are the monsters you think you're standing up to defend."
A lot of people here are saying they'd stop the World Trade Center attacks. I would too, but nobody seems to be making any suggestions on how to do so. Well it's a known fact that a Maryland State Trooper pulled them over while they were on their way from Florida to Maine.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/attack/bal-md.video09jan09,0,1973224.story
I'd impersonate a VIRGINIA State Trooper, pull them all over before they could reach D.C., then blow them away with a machine gun, possibly a converted MAC-10, and expose the evidence of their plans from their car(s).
On a more personal note, I'd probably go back to my old school, and beat the living daylights out of some bullies who kept giving me a hard time(including some teachers). And I'd take some pictures of road signs and traffic signals that I know about that were taken down a long time ago, and post them on the internet today to prove they existed.
hippiechick60 10-17-2006, 12:11 PM :D i'd go back in time to the 60s and go and see every monkee consert that i can go too!
Steve M. 10-17-2006, 01:06 PM That was a guy called Ronald Selle. I'm convinced that the Bee Gees certainly didn't plagiarise his song, though. They'd been writing songs since they were kids - Barry himself was writing songs at the age of 12. I find it hard to imagine that after nearly 20 years of writing their own songs, they'd steal somebody else's. Secondly, it has been proven that it is in fact possible for two different people, or two different groups of people, to come up with exactly the same tune, without ever having heard the other's song. It's rare, yes, but it has been proved that it's possible.
I'm glad the verdict was eventually overturned. At the time, they said they intended to fight it, as they hated the idea of having their reputation as songwriters sullied.
When Ronald Selle won the original court case, he called to tell a relative the news, and his relative said, "Forget the money. Did you get their autographs?" :lol:
Speaking of signer-songwriters, I'd go back to March 15, 1979, in a bar in Columbus Ohio, and slip Elvis Costello a mickey to keep him from getting drunk, calling Ray Charles a "blind ignorant n*gger," and getting his lights punched out by Bonnie Bramlett (it also cost him his career in America).
Sharop 10-17-2006, 06:41 PM When Ronald Selle won the original court case, he called to tell a relative the news, and his relative said, "Forget the money. Did you get their autographs?" :lol:
That was his nephew. :) I have a huge biography of the Bee Gees - about 700 pages long - and it talks quite a bit about the Bee Gees vs. Selle case.
Steve M. 10-17-2006, 08:30 PM Here's an anecdote that caught my eye from one Bee Gees bio: While listening to "Jive Talkin'" at a London pub, one British rock singer asked the DJ who it was, and when he heard it was the Bee Gees, he thought the zDJ was jive talkin'!
The rock singer's name was Roger Chapman. :)
Speaking of which, if I had a time machine, I'd go back to April 8, 1969, and stop Chapman from throwing a mcrophone stand during Family's Filmore East concert, because it unintentionally came close to hitting Bill Graham and ruined Family's chances for success in America! :eek:
JuicyCoutureGirl 10-27-2006, 01:06 AM Just this summer, I was thinking how awesome it would be if I could go back in time. The first thing I would do would probably be to warn Selena and Judith Barsi of their untimely demises. Then I'd probably go back a few years and take the chances that I never took, something I've always regretted. Then I'd just chill in the late '70s (and meet Leif Garrett when he was hot, haha) and then the '80s, because I am fascinated by '80s culture (probably because I remember so little of it).
Aww...Little Judy, you took mine! Maria and Judith didn't deserve to die like that.
I would warn Aaliyah not to get on that damn plane:mad:
1994: Warn my mother not to go out to dinner with friends and that she'll die in a car crash.
1984: Warn my older brother(from mom's first marriage) killing yourself isn't worth it!
1981: Natalie, get your ass off that damn boat:mad: I believe either Robert Wagner or Christoper Walken pushed her, no way in hell she "fell".
1985-1986: Go back to my kindergarten class, I met my best friend for life.
1998: I would do senior year all over again!!!
Hell the mid-late 1980's: Being a kid was the best, life was innocent as a kid until I heard about Judith Barsi being killed by her bastard father. She was only two years older.. sad...
1978-My mother came over to the U.S from Russia, I would have loved to see my mom when she was younger!
dawsongirl 10-27-2006, 01:23 AM 1985-1986: Go back to my kindergarten class, I met my best friend for life.
1998: I would do senior year all over again!!!
You must be my age! I went to school the same years.
JuicyCoutureGirl 10-27-2006, 01:31 AM You must be my age! I went to school the same years.
Maybe! Elementary in the eighties was kick ass! My daughter is in elementary now and compared to my years, I had a much better time! The class of '98... aww, brings back memories....
The murder of Judith Barsi almost ruined my upcoming third grade year. I felt sick hearing about her murder.
Dressing as Punky Brewster for Halloween in '85 was the best time i've had. I had so much candy and ended up eating half of it behind my parents back and ended up getting sick!
BrownEyedGirl523 10-27-2006, 11:25 AM Maybe! Elementary in the eighties was kick ass! My daughter is in elementary now and compared to my years, I had a much better time! The class of '98... aww, brings back memories....
The murder of Judith Barsi almost ruined my upcoming third grade year. I felt sick hearing about her murder.
Dressing as Punky Brewster for Halloween in '85 was the best time i've had. I had so much candy and ended up eating half of it behind my parents back and ended up getting sick!
Wow, you remember the news coverage from when she died? I was only three when she died, but I just found out about her last summer. :( You should definitely stop by judithbarsi.com, there's lot of information, and some of the nicest people are there. :)
JuicyCoutureGirl 10-27-2006, 06:38 PM Wow, you remember the news coverage from when she died? I was only three when she died, but I just found out about her last summer. :( You should definitely stop by judithbarsi.com, there's lot of information, and some of the nicest people are there. :)
I do remember it quite well, our mothers are both Hungarian (well, mine is half hungarian) my mother lived in Hungray the same time as Maria Barsi, but Maria was a teen when my mom was born(my mother went back to Russia later on,I think I asked my mother if she knew her, but I don't remember for sure when).
Sadly, there wasn't that much coverage of her death. It fell on deaf ears, Judith reminded me of my cousin, even looked liked her. I wished we knew each other, I lived in Laguna Beach while she lived further away.
I would stop by but looking at her pictures is just unbearable.
Lamont 10-28-2006, 08:02 PM i will admit it
lamont is a greedy jerk!
id go back in time and invest in microsoft and be filthy rich!!!!
ha ha ha ha
Polniaczek033 10-29-2006, 12:58 AM i would go back to last summer, just to relive it.
i'd also go back and kill people that were already going to die anyway. haha you can't mess with destiny, but you can hurry it along.
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