What would your time machine do, and what would you do with it?

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: What would your time machine do, and what would you do with it?

In the form of a poll to save you some--what else?-- time. Also, maybe I can make clearer what I mean by the "what would it do" part. As a time machine is a fictional construct, you could either move in time, staying the age you are now, or turn back time and be young again. Presumably, as we're only limited by imagination (unless you have a real time machine, in which case do spill) you could be young again in this time period or go back to when you were actually young, but bringing with you what you've learned since.

As I mention ad nauseam, I'm celiac and only found out at age 45. I often think wistfully how different it would have been had I known earlier. Mind you, had I known too early I probably never would have made it to Europe. But if I could maybe go back to 1988 when everything crashed for me, that would have been a good time for some dietary changes, and by now I'd be President. (In my own mind, but still.) And you?

Edit: I had "I dunno; I just really dig DeLoreans" but then realized I'd left off "Be young again now" so substituted the latter for the former.

[rcrush]

1. You wouldnt need to kill Hitler.

Just keep Prescott Bush from giving him money. Or you just kill Prescott Bush and spare the 20th and 21st century so many wars.

[DarkTirade]

2. Tomorrow's winning lotto numbers.

Hey, I'm allowed to be selfish at least once. :P

[Bossy Monkey]

3. I should have put on: "Make a killing-- a FINANCIAL killing"

but didn't think of it in time, dangit!

[Bossy Monkey]

4. Darn; should have put on "Find out who shot JFK (or answers to other mysteries, please specify)" too

We need longer polls!:)

[kimmerspixelated]

5. Prevent JFK and RFK murders

and the world would be a different place!

[Bossy Monkey]

12. Would you be shooting Nixon, Johnson, GHW Bush, J. Edgar or the Mob? n/t

[kimmerspixelated]

19. As long as it's all magical and imaginative anyway,

I prefer to just have zapped the alleged shooter(s) into outer space or something like that, or maybe turned them into lizards.

[Bossy Monkey]

20. Orrr make Kennedys bullet-proof. Hmmm.

:D

[kimmerspixelated]

22. That would work!

[Arugula Latte]

6. Hmmm... Maybe Poppy could have suffered a nasty croquet accident (in the crotch area)

when he was a young preppie in Connecticut, thus preventing him from ever impregnating that evil beeyotch Babs and producing their litter of devil spawn.

[LSdemocrat]

7. Tomorrow on Smartline: Which is the one, true faith?

Yeah I'd go back in time to investigate religious claims.

[Bossy Monkey]

11. Bring back Jesus! Or just grab a small dinosaur to put paid to the fundamentalists. It'll be fun!

:P

[NightWatcher]

8. I'd go back in time with a case full of condoms

Mr and Mrs Gingrich here you go
" " Bush " "

you get the idea.

Hell, I bet that'd be a cool book to write. The Condom Crusade To Save the Future

[Bossy Monkey]

18. I'm not sure Republicans are much wont to using condoms

Maybe calculate dates of conception and make a bunch of harassing phone calls those nights. Or bring a marching band. Or Tiny Tim records, I don't know what breaks the mood!:)

[av8rdave]

9. My time machine would be capable of time travel, and I would travel through time with it

[ghostsofgiants]

10. Two words: Crystal Pepsi

http://www.spike.com/video/human-giant-time/2840999

[TommyO]

14. I remember that stuff, and I liked it!

I also was in the test market for Pepsi Kona, Pepsi with coffee flavoring, it tasted much better than it sounds. The commercials used Tom Jones to hawk the stuff, and since a friend and I had a running Tom Jones joke going, he got some for his birthday, along with a copy of the commercial.

[ghostsofgiants]

17. The commercials I remember had "Right Now" by Van Halen.

I was in third grade at the time, haha. I loved that stuff though. I much prefer clear drinks.

[datasuspect]

13. i got a time machine in my pants

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/idiocracy-museum-of-fart/919291372

[piratefish08]

15. I'd finally be able to get my broken flux capacitor fixed......... n/t

[Bossy Monkey]

16. AND beat up Huey Lewis and the News (just kidding). Welcome to DU!

(slightly late):toast:

[BlueJazz]

21. Go back to the 20's