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Re: Where Would You Go...
Posted by: dante (---.internal.omneuk.com)
Date: July 16, 2003 11:11AM

The building I work in is actually a sort of conglomeration of buildings from various stages of the past couple of centuries, and somewhere in the middle there's a Rennie Mackintosh courtyard. It's nice, but it's hard to find (that might just be me) and it's a 10m square courtyard in the middle of a 4 storey building, so it doesn't get much sun...



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Do something pretty while you can...

Re: Where Would You Go...
Posted by: Intrigue (---.vic.bigpond.net.au)
Date: July 16, 2003 12:04PM

The time machines in production will only send data, and only as far back the time they are first turned on - e.g: in 2030 you could send a message to yourself in 2006 or so. As soon as he turns it on, the inventor expects to be swamped with messages from the next week.



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Those who forget the pasta are doomed to reheat it.

Re: Where Would You Go...
Posted by: Simon (---.westsussex.gov.uk)
Date: July 16, 2003 03:16PM

Mostly spam, in the form of advance adverts for products that will be on the market "soon", so that potential purchasers can place pre-orders and set money aside to pay for them? And scams about betting on future sporting events?

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Warning! Product may contain N ewts!

Re: Where Would You Go...
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.server.ntli.net)
Date: July 16, 2003 06:16PM

I'd like to go back to near the end of the Third Age to see if Ents really did have knees.

(Sorry for remaining anonymous but as a newbie, I want to see if those I know who already frequent here can guess it's me...)


Re: Where Would You Go...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 16, 2003 06:27PM

I don't know you, unless soemthing has gone tragically, tragically wrong...



PSD

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Re: Where Would You Go...
Posted by: Lycanthra Pod (---.dsl.pipex.com)
Date: July 16, 2003 06:35PM

Skiffle - Ive beein to Glasgow once, I made Trev go round all the CRM related buildings in the city except the School of Art which was shut at the time.
Dante - I'm not jelous, Glasgow is the most friendly place I've visited. Unfortunately it was only over night. My accent is broad Wiltshire and it was a bit difficult to make myself understood, I could have done with your subtitling skills. I belong to the CRM Society, hopefully, in the words of Arnie....... I'll be back.

Jon - curses, my evil plans to do a Dibbler has been spotted, mind you I'd like to see him with a time machine, rat-on-a-stick across the ages sounds good.


Re: Where Would You Go...
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: July 17, 2003 12:56AM

PSD - something went tragically wrong the day you were born.


Re: Where Would You Go...
Posted by: Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 03:41PM

Welcome, Wizbit. You're not by any chance my sister, are you?



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Re: Where Would You Go...
Posted by: Bluebottle (---.server.ntl.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 03:44PM

Whoever Wizbit is, I'd just like to say thank you to them for putting the theme tune from that show in my head.

Aargh!

Re: Where Would You Go...
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.server.ntli.net)
Date: July 17, 2003 11:14PM

"Ha-ha this-a-away, ha-ha that-a-away ... My oh my!"

<is slightly higher than 3ft tall and definitely not Sarah's, or anyone's, sister>

PS - Would also like to go to top of Everest circa June 1924 to shake Mallory and Irvine by the hand.


Re: Where Would You Go...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 17, 2003 11:26PM

Better off heading to the second step to grab them by the hand and drag them up it...

(I know - I like to think they made it too)



PSD

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Re: Where Would You Go...
Posted by: violentViolet (---.dip.t-dialin.net)
Date: July 17, 2003 11:58PM

...well I'd like to go back to 18th century and drink one or the other bottle of wine with Laurence Sterne.

Hope that doesn't sound to pseudo-intellectual, but I really adore him

Vio



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Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.

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Re: Where Would You Go...
Posted by: Skiffle (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 18, 2003 01:56AM

Perhaps the most practical use I would currently have for a time machine, is two pop back an hour or so, about this time every night. That way, I might get to bed at a more sensible hour.

Re: Where Would You Go...
Posted by: Intrigue (---.vic.bigpond.net.au)
Date: July 18, 2003 10:21AM

What about meeting Alberto Santos-Dumont? He was to the Wright Brothers as Mallory and Irvine were to Hillary and Norgay. A while ago I had to do a project on a Notable person. I chose Alberto and because no-one knew of him, no-one could prove me wrong.

ViolentViolet - that name isn't from You Don't Know Me by David Klass, is it?



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Re: Where Would You Go...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 18, 2003 10:14PM

Actually, Mallory and Irvine used a different route to Hillary and Norgay, who owed far more to previous Swiss expeditions.



PSD

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