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Who Would You Like To Meet?
No double title, not drunk enough. Not weekendy enough. Inly have three beers left.
But here's the thing: you've got a time machine. And an alternate dimension machine. Why? Fuck you, that's why. They're the same thing, it's just one big machine. And for some reason, you're gonna use this machine to meet someone that you've always dreamt of meeting. Just because, that's why. Let's say you can meet anyone, fictional or real, and that this is a... fuck it, it's just simpler... more simpler... to say that you've got a free trip in a TARDIS. You can understand any language and you can possibly fight aliens with anyone. Who do you choose to meet? And why? And would you hit it off, or would it be like meeting Ernest Hemmingway and he swears you silly for interupting him while he's writing? Or is it Hitler, and you're trying to convince him that he's wrong and he sends you to a death camp. Or is it Amelia Earhart, and she leaves for a second and never comes back? (Here are the conditions of this thread and junk:) You can meet anyone you choose, fictional or not. You have to tell us who the person is. Their psychoses will still apply, ie. they will be depressed or anxiety-ridden or whatever they are or were. You can choose the situation when you meet them, but everything's got to be legitimate - no running off to fight crime on a unicorn or whatevs. They will respond to you as a person they've never met. |
I've been thinking about this, and depending on my mood I might end up meeting the kids in Grave of the Fireflies. Saving just one orphan from starvation might seem like a waste of WW2 time travel efforts, not to mention it would rob the future of an excellent book and movie, but it'd be too sad not to.
And yeah I think they'd be a fan of anyone who shows up with a cheese sandwich so contact would not be much of a problem. There are a number of times and places I'd like to go and things I'd like to do, but typical of me I can't think of any people I want to see. Except maybe Milla Jovovich before she married that jerk Andersson. I'd probably just go off to Polynesia circa 1600 or Iceland 2001 to get in on Eve Online early. |
Tesla. Without a doubt, Nikola Tesla. Crazy genius inventor who just performed mad SCIENCE! every day and made electricity his bitch. I'd also get to ask him if even half the rumours about his inventions are true, like the earthquake machine and the electrolasers.
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Everyone from the past is a racist, bigot fuckhead so they're all out. Except Jesus, he's a cool dude.
So we going to go fictional- Edward Cullen, he'.s so dream |
Clement Atlee, because that dude was fucking rad.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Attlee he was instrumental in creating the NHS and nationalised vast swathes of industry in the UK, he took the country from having terrible unemployment to having nearly full employment, he did whole swathes of shit for the working class. Much of which the conservatives in the UK are still struggling to remove and destroy. |
Lady Gaga. We'd just hang out and talk about random shit cause she's a free bitch baby.
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An alternate version of myself. I would also seduce said version of myself.
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I want to meet nic cage and be in shitty action movies with him.
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My mother, who died when I was just 6.
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Well here I was going to name Jenny Creed, the character of the book I'm writing, and be proud of the apparent lack of egotism implied in that it took me this long to think of her, but Flares already won the thread. :ohdear:
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brb exploring space and time
As sweet a sentiment as it is, it's not really the most interesting or imaginative. I'd say there's still plenty of room to "win" this thread.
I'd make a response myself, but all that talk about the TARDIS has me already going off on various tangents with myself. |
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I wouldn't want to meet anyone, because then they'd have the great displeasure of meeting me.
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I'd want to meet RO. Just to see him run away from me yelling "You don't want to meet me, go away!"
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Ernesto 'Che' Guevara.
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You.
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Carmen Sandiego. This alone guarantees me a big adventure through time, then when I catch up to her, we'll steal the TARDIS. Fuck your "one free trip." This is entirely reasonable and within the abilities of Carmen Sandiego. Also gonna steal Rockapella.
And why hasn't it been a Doctor Who plot? Alternately; kill Shakespeare. |
Can we assume no language barriers in this trip? Like we also have a universal translator device in the time machine?
Anyway. Elijah. Solomon. Jesus. Socrates. Confucius. Buddha. Mani. Zoroaster. Muhammed. I'm pretty sure I'd like to settle the question once and for all, wouldn't you? |
Buster Keaton. I'd go back in time, give him a hug, tell him that he's waaaay better than Charlie Chaplin, and that MGM was stupid for pairing him up with Jimmy Durante in their talkies.
Bronte sisters. We'd chill at garden parties and discuss books. Also warn them about tuberculosis. Loisa May Alcott. Try and get her to tell me the names of all the suspense novels she penned under a pseudonym. Because the ones they've discovered so far are badass. |
Stan Winston.
Ray Harryhausen. Mr. Rogers. You know, mash these together. Get Mr. Rogers to do a field trip segment like to an effects studio with one of the other two. Teach the kids that the scary things in movies can't hurt them and can actually be really awesome, along with the people who make them. |
Def would hang out with Carl Sagan.
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Fifthfiend, Krylo, Poshspice, Bit, Liz.
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Myself
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Hmm.
Probably would go visit all my dead relations back when they were alive but I was too young to remember them so I could understand my family history. I've got at least three people on that list. Beyond that, nothing really springs to mind. |
Call it silly if you want, but I would go back in time to meet my mother and talk to her as an adult. She passed away when I was six, and I don't remember nearly enough about her. At least not as much as I would like to remember.
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Or am I POShspice?
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Asshole. :( |
Sorry you aren't as cool as us.
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Like either break the laws of physics for me or fuck off I got better things to do. |
I choose to fuck off.
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I don't think its safe to meet with POS
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