A silly question

Sarah Huntrods · Post by **Sarah Huntrods** » Tue Jan 01, 2002 7:57 am

I've been thinking silly thoughts about history. If you could invent a time machine and go back in time, what historical figure would you like to kick square in the nuts?I'd like to meet Ignatius Donnelly, the crackpot scholar that "invented" all the flakey theories about Atlantis...and also the bastard behind the whole Francis Bacon speculation about Shakespeare's work.
I'd like to kick him square in the nuts!I'd also like to do the same to Nostradamus!Anyone else have historical figures they'd like to give a swift kick in the balls?

FatherTim · Post by **FatherTim** » Tue Jan 01, 2002 11:36 am

The guy who wrote most of the Bible... 40 years after Christ died. I figure he's got to be responsible for the most pain and suffering cuased by a single person.------------------
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Cannonshop · Post by **Cannonshop** » Wed Jan 02, 2002 2:36 am

Uh... Tim... You'd have to go back to about AD 400, and kick a whole raft of people in various places-the Bible is a comilation done by the Council of Nicea, under Empress Theodora in Constantinople. Before that, there were a wholo bunch of different "Gospels". It'd be easier just to take a tommy-gun with you and rake the room a couple times. This might not be such a bad idea-Editing by Comitee tends to result in material that is self-contradictory...
Personally, I think Woodrow Wilson could've been improved via a foot to the sweetspot, along with Karl Marx, friedrich Engels, Joe Stalin, Mao-Tse-Tung, Adolph Hitler, Pol Pot, and Vladimir Ilyanovich Lenin. The Crusades and witch-hunts were pretty bad, but-pound for pound, the "Religious Politics" of the 20th Century have been bloodier, and more horrible, with less justification (you can't say that university graduates were ignorant or uneducated, or acting on superstitious or tribal grounds) than anything that came before.
I mean, I doubt seriously that 40 Million people could have been involved in the Crusades, and that's just the Russian Purges of the early 1930's. Whats even sicker, is that there are people that will justify, even today, the actions of those men, and the works that they were inspired by.
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Sarah Huntrods · Post by **Sarah Huntrods** » Wed Jan 02, 2002 4:44 am

Basically I'm after anyone who's responsible for creating bad, infectious memes.
I'm not going to even touch the bible.I was thinking of it like the way Black Adder in that Black Adder Back and Forth special kicked Shakespeare in the groin and then said "that is for Ken Brannah's four hour version of Hamlet!" I was just going for petty and satisfying revenge rather than a full out assault on history.Donnelly is a particularly good target because he's a single twit responsible for a whole branch of suedo-science that just happens to annoy me. For one, I'm really sick of the "one world civilization" theory and figure that archeologists can better spend there time doing real research rather then trying to find evidence for Donnelly's crackpot theories. The guy's theories aren't even worth investigating. Seems most of them he just pulled out of his ass in the first place.

Justinpie · Post by **Justinpie** » Wed Jan 02, 2002 6:46 am

I'd also like to rochambeau that Francis Bacon supporter too, Sarah. Save me a nut.Also:
GW Bush for all the stuff he's sweeping under the rug.Jarry Falwell. Nuff said.That Babylon 5 JMS guy for his work on Spider-Man (Cock up the storyline some more why doncha, jackass!)------------------
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Matt Bork · Post by **Matt Bork** » Thu Jan 03, 2002 1:42 am

hmm, maybe instead of the guy that made them famous....i'd go back further before he was born and get a good running start and kick his fathers nuts into oblivion. i think that would solve it.....mwahaha...um yeah

ZOMBIE USER 866 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 866** » Thu Jan 03, 2002 3:51 am

My choice would be Bill Gates. I can't think of another living soul who has been so successful in making millions of people learn to jump through unnecessary geek-lover OS hoops, while being convinced that it's the best way of doing things on a computer. Giving him a swift kick to the crotch would sure feel good to me! Apple RULES! mwahahahaha!!!!Kaichi Satake<a href="http://www.kyokipress.com/shadowfall/index.html"><img src="http://www.kyokipress.com/images/banner ... 200x40.gif" WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=40 BORDER=0></a>

Cannonshop · Post by **Cannonshop** » Thu Jan 03, 2002 4:15 am

Oh, if that's the rules...
Lessee...
Frankie Valee, and the rest of the four seasons, the sick bastard who gene-spliced whatever to get N'Sync, in fact, howzabout kicking the whole Musical-Industrial complex in the nards? The !@##!$#(*&*~@#~!!!! who invented Top-40 Radio (all of them.), the guy who introduced John Lennon to Yoko Ono (thus breaking up the Beatles), the guy who gave Joe Cocker a break into singing, the guys who keep telling Eddie Vedder he sounds great solo-when he doesn't, and the @$$hole who came up with the idea of Televangelism.
As for the Political thing: If you're going to start kicking Presidents for keeping secrets, and sweeping shit under the rug, you'd best get started at the beginning-George Washington, because All of them do it...
Personally, I'd rather start kicking Journalism majors who want to "Change The World" rather than just "Reporting the News."
(there we go! the guy who invented Journalism as a College Course- it used to be a high-end blue-collar business, rather than something you had to go to college to do...) ------------------
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Sarah Huntrods · Post by **Sarah Huntrods** » Thu Jan 03, 2002 6:37 am

Hmm...lessee, there's a whole bunch of famous artists I'd like to kick in the balls,
Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamps, Jackson Pollock...those are the big three, but the list goes on and on and on...

Hunter · Post by **Hunter** » Thu Jan 03, 2002 10:09 am

<img src="http://demonicboppu.keenspace.com/image ... pg">How about hunting down and torturing the people who make DVD's so expensive?
::throws fit::(Note from Sforzie: S/he's been watching waaay too much Slayers in the past week. --;; )

Sarah Huntrods · Post by **Sarah Huntrods** » Thu Jan 03, 2002 11:50 am

And CDs! The music industry is even worse!

Matt Bork · Post by **Matt Bork** » Thu Jan 03, 2002 12:00 pm

well, my choice wouldnt be a historical figure. id just go back in time and mule kick the guy that made nsync and the backstreet boys right in the crotch...i know even with the smack to the nards he'd probably still make those retards famous...but i'd just feel better =D

Sarah Huntrods · Post by **Sarah Huntrods** » Thu Jan 03, 2002 12:03 pm

Heehee, that's generally the point.

The Hammurabi · Post by **The Hammurabi** » Fri Jan 04, 2002 1:25 am

Just off the top of my head,
-The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem during WW2; being an Arab in Palestine under the British, anti-Semitism was rather a natural fit, but who did he think was next after National Socialism and it's neurotic little leader finished the Jews? The kick in the cojones would be accompanied by a beating about the head with Mein Kampf.
-Neville Chamberlain and Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy; another pair apparently blind to the Bavarian corporal and his band of psychopathic thugs.
-(If you aren't from BC, skip this)Bill Vander Zalm; first he sues an editorial cartoonist, then he gets caught making land deals in hotel rooms with paper bags full of money. What planet he is from has never been determined.
-John Diefenbaker and George Hees; for cancelling the Avro Arrow fighter plane in favour of American missiles that never worked and creating what was arguably the first high-tech brain drain to the States (NASA!).
-Pierre Trudeau and Paul Hellyer; amalgamating the three separate armed services into one "Armed Forces" and commencing the still-on-going emasculation of our national defense.
-whichever idiot started cutting money from the CBC (I like the radio services; I could care less about TV. Air Farce was *funny* when they were on the radio...).
-Myself; before I got involved with the chick that became my first wife. But I'm not bitter. Really.I'm impressed with myself. That's not bad after a 15 hours on the road. Now, I must find some dinner before going to bed. I think there's some sushi in the fridge...

Lazy · Post by **Lazy** » Fri Jan 04, 2002 9:11 am

I'd like to go back in time and kill that primordeal "EVE." Then the human race just wouldn't be. That'd make everything better. But, you know, maybe some one in the future did and killed the one that should have been the "EVE" and we came from the number 2 "EVE." That's probably why we are so messed up.oh well...
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Justinpie · Post by **Justinpie** » Fri Jan 04, 2002 10:06 am

but if you kill Eve, then you'll never have been born to kill Eve, so Eve will live on and you'll be born, thus going off to kill Ever which will in turn prevent your birth and er, oh my...------------------
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Sarah Huntrods · Post by **Sarah Huntrods** » Fri Jan 04, 2002 10:54 am

Wow, that's a weird thought! Eve 2, would that make the first Lilith then? Course I don't know if I'd consider Eve a historical figure...more mythological...(looks around hoping there's no rabid creationists in the room)I wouldn't be out to prevent history myself. A kick in the balls to certain deserving historical figures for my own personal satisfaction is all I'm after, just to let them know what a terrible nuisance they've caused for future generations.I'm specifically after people who were responsible for academic flakeyness.
Maybe I'll put Hunter S. Thompson on the list just for good measure.

Cannonshop · Post by **Cannonshop** » Sat Jan 05, 2002 4:02 am

Heh,
Heh-heh,
heheheheheheheheheheheheh...I'll be in the shed, working on a time machine...
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FatherTim · Post by **FatherTim** » Sun Jan 06, 2002 1:38 am

First, take a couple of hours to read "The Man Who Folded Himself" by David Gerrold. It's the all-time ultimate time travel novel. I'd describe it further, but that would ruin the plot. Suffice it to say that after reading it you will never think of time travel the same way again.
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Sarah Huntrods · Post by **Sarah Huntrods** » Sun Jan 06, 2002 2:40 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Cannonshop:
I'll be in the shed, working on a time machine...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Woohoo! Can I borrow it?That is, if I can't get the time machine on Katlke's airship working...