Bring a Famous Person from the Past to the Present.

[Ole_Goat]

If you could bring a famous person(s) from the past , for an afternoon, to the present, who would it be? What would you show him?

I would bring
Ben Franklin and walk around with him in Philidelphia - listening to his stories.
Abraham Lincoln, same as above only in Washington D.C. Avoiding Ford's Theater.

[Professor Jumbo]

Yup, Ben Franklin can't be beat. Walk around Philly nude eating tomatoes, which is what Ben Franklin did on occasion. Of course back then peolpe thought that tomatoes were poisonous.

[JanaXGIRL]

John Lennon.. to walk around his Dakota Building in NY and talkin' about music, world.. peace!

[samson]

I'd like to watch Jefferson read the amendments to the constitution!

Taking Edison thru BestBuy might be a hoot as well.

[TrippinBTM]

franklin walked around Philly naked? Huh?

Seeing Hendrix play would be pretty cool. And I'd bring back the Buddha. The world needs someone like him. I'd say Jesus, but that's been done already, haha.

if not, then emily dickinson-think she and i have alot in common. You much of a shut-in recluse?

[Darwinism]

I think I would pick Christopher Columbus, I would show him around New York, I think. To show him what became of the country he found.

[NineMM Pizza]

Abraham Lincoln, and I would re-elect him president!

[Ole_Goat]

Abraham Lincoln, and I would re-elect him president!
No doubt he is capable, but I don't he would be considered "Electable" in this century.
There are more physically attractive candidate available. The TV screen wouldn't like him (scares little kids - etc.). The talking points he needs to make couldn't be made in the required 10 second sound bites.

[Clover]

I would bring George Sand and show her how women dress nowadays, I bet she would like it ;)

[shockseventyfour]

I would get Jack kerouac and walk with him around any of the big cities and listen to his ideas of american culture nowadays. Or maybe with Washington or john Adams.

[taxrefund90]

i would bring back ghandi. we could just sit in my house in the air conditioning, or we could stay in my shed during the winter. i don't know what we would do, but i am sure eventually it would be something cool.

i could bring back the lindbergh baby and see what would become of him.

[Ole_Goat]

i would bring back ghandi. we could just sit in my house in the air conditioning, or we could stay in my shed during the winter. i don't know what we would do, but i am sure eventually it would be something cool.

i could bring back the lindbergh baby and see what would become of him.
He would probably weave some clothe. I understand clothe weaving was one of his hobbies.

[taxrefund90]

whose, ghandi's or the lindbergh baby's. if it is ghandi's, then we will make the clothes of the new supreme order in the republic of tax refunds. so often, the poor and sick are passed aside by the ones who are in our highest elected offices. the working man has become thy leaders mindless foot soldier, pushing on until the pig is fatter and the soldier is left in ruins. the supreme order shall change all that is wrong to right. watch the masses in the elections to come. the numbers carry a message.

[BlueBong83]

Lincoln, Gandhi, and FDR are on my list.
Not because they were saints, but because they were humans.
They did work that is considered incredibly virtuous by many Americans, yet I am not sure of the benevolence of their motives. They ameliorated problems but at the same time contributed to the shit-storm we find ourselves in today.

Underneath the legend is an ambiguity I would love to clear up.

[Ganja_Goo_Ninja]

Jesus. I'll bring the weed, he'll make the wine -- it'd be sweet.

..or Joan or Arc.

[prankster1590]

Every one from the bible so they can see what a mess it is 2000 years later.

(But the meant good, offcourse)

[Ole_Goat]

......if it is ghandi's, then we will make the clothes of the new supreme order in the republic of tax refunds. so often, the poor and sick are passed aside by the ones who are in our highest elected offices. the working man has become thy leaders mindless foot soldier, pushing on until the pig is fatter and the soldier is left in ruins. the supreme order shall change all that is wrong to right. watch the masses in the elections to come. the numbers carry a message.
Gandhi...seeing he was perennially under dressed, how long could it take to clothe the poor, sick masses, and the working man?

[Ole_Goat]

Jesus. I'll bring the weed, he'll make the wine -- it'd be sweet.

..or Joan or Arc.
If you brought back Joan of Arc...would it be in bad taste to invite her to an outdoor Barb-B-Que?

[MikeE]

The orginal post said "for an afternoon" so.. english speaking from a recent enough era to grasp the present in 6 hours and comment on it....

Edison, Bell, Conant, Ike, JFK, Malcom X each would be interesting.

Hmm, Von Braun would be another good one.

[Disconformitized]

Socrates, or that indian cheif who masecred gen. custer in his last stand... (Sitting Bull was it?)

as long as a translator makes the trip in time with them

[water_baby]

Janis Joplin, we would hang out, do drugs and have sex.

[*Ewan*]

hendrix, che guevara, and jesus, to show him how people have screwed him over.

[prankster1590]

Yeah. Jezus is love. The uber-Hippie.

[Zoomie]

I would take Vercingetorix to a knife and gun show. That would rock.

[Professor Jumbo]

I' have changed my mind. I want to bring back George Orwell.

[NaykidApe]

I would bring back Jesus Christ and have him post in the christians forum, just because I think it would be funny to watch all the christians arguing with him.

[prankster1590]

I wonder what jesus thinks of Budhism

[TokeMEup420]

LOL omg hahahaaa:p


I wonder?


http://photos1.blogger.com/img/201/1721/640/jesus.jpg http://www.crystalshiloh.com/images/Emporio%20Armani%20Buddha.jpg

[flyinghigh]

Abraham Lincoln he is a great people in my heart

[yossarian]

Thoreau, I'd take a hike with him and hear him ramble. Jesus is also a good idea, I wonder what he'd think about the world today.

[prism]

Lester Bangs... just to see his reaction toward contemporary pop.

[prankster1590]

Hunter S Thompson

[CaNNabinol]

i whould bring back the inventor of the atomic bombs. I'm curious what he could do with modern time technology....

[IronGoth]

RE: Hunter S Thompson

Why in GOD'S name would you bring back that cowardly, lying sack of crap?

As for me, Leonardo Da Vinci. I'd love to know how he trained his hands to be so goddamn strong (apparently he could bend horseshoes with his bare hands like it was lead). I train grip strength, can easily tear phone books and packs of cards in half but I'd love to hear from the Master.

[prankster1590]

He wrote good books (Thompson)

Michael Angelo
Einstein
Robin Hood
Scotty
Matin Luther King
William Wallace

[lutsko67]

I would bring MISS JANIS JOPLIN and show her how music has changed for the worst today. Hip Hop, what they call Rock music today? Please It aint music ..its all noise. !!!!! Miss J, as she liked to be called by her friends, was a woman ahead of her time!! She could sing and make u feel where she was coming from!! Her heart and soul was in all of her music. And even today, her music really gets inside u and u feel u are right back in the 60s w/her. She was and is and always will be ahead of her time in her music!!! For her ,she will always be the best!!! Long live Miss J, your music will always stand the test of time!! Rock On !!!

[Conspriacy99X]

Someone old and would be like so stunned from the old to the new.

[Ole_Goat]

Have them watch MTV before introducing them to the outside world. That should mellow them out a bit.

[prankster1590]

Herakles
Achilles
Plato
socrates
aristotle
perseus
odyseus
aphrodite

[IronGoth]

RE: He wrote good books (Thompson)

Name one. Sorry. I don't like Thompson as a person and his books show him to be just vile.

Hell's Angels was a pack of lies and Fear and Loathing is the story of a man sent on assignment who ducked it and went on a drug and vandalism binge. WOW. What a great guy! He threatened his bosses, made stuff up, wrote expenses for things he didn't do - in short he basically was the least professional journalist in existence.

[prankster1590]

It is not only the story with Hunter, it is also his style of writing.

He threatened his bosses, made stuff up, wrote expenses for things he didn't do - in short he basically was the least professional journalist in existence.


Yes but everybody knows that. You don't read Thompson for a ordinary boring news article.
You read him to read a wild, ironic and brutally insane story.

[Goatman88]

Id bring John Lennon and show him how messed up the world is. Itd also be fun to bring back Edison and take him to an electronics store.

[Quest_techie]

couldn't I just do the go back bit?

[Libertine]

Thomas Jefferson to let him see what America has done to his Constitution.

Earl Warren to lead the Supreme Court back to the path of progress.

Henry David Thoreau to travel with.

Timothy Leary to trip with.

Adolf Hitler (I'd force him) to hold world-wide internationally-televised press conferences on the parallels between himself of the Nazi era and Bush of today.

[hailtothekingbaby]

I would bring back Jesus and violently rape him on public television.

[prankster1590]

ok:H
Jezus is good. Cristians can be bad.

[AddictedToStrychnine]

Karl Marx: it would interesting how he would analyze today's society and how he will react to modern sociology and econmics. I'll ask him to write another treatise... he probably will

Marx saw himself as analysing human history... what if he was witness to more of it? Would he change his views, now that capitalism isn't likely to be overthrown violently.

Albert Einstien: So he could make even more progresses in physics

[StonerBill]

RE: Hunter S Thompson

Why in GOD'S name would you bring back that cowardly, lying sack of crap?

As for me, Leonardo Da Vinci. I'd love to know how he trained his hands to be so goddamn strong (apparently he could bend horseshoes with his bare hands like it was lead). I train grip strength, can easily tear phone books and packs of cards in half but I'd love to hear from the Master.wow i never knew he could do that..

davinci is my hero.. he was so amazing.. id want to bring him back, smoke some weed with him, and talk about our ideas on things, learn a thing or two from him, maybe teach him some things to take back wherever he goes.

but where do you learn things like this 'grip strength'? id love that.. i often push my hands grips to the limit whereby they hurt... but i cant get that far with it..is it one of those 'mind over matter' things or a technique and actual physical strength?



ps. wow is it just me or is there a page 6 with no posts on it in this thread?

[JHardee13]

I'd bring Lincoln, so I could shoot that paranoid, death obsessed, backwoods, usurper and caesar myself right after I showed him how poopy the country has gotten since he set the precedent for a governments abuse of power and neglect for constitutional law

[EarthMama8503]

I'd bring back Mama Cass from the Mamas and the Papas, just to hang with her for a while, I think she was so beautiful. I know it's been mentioned before, but I have always felt a connection when I read Emily Dickinson, so I'd like to talk to her too.

[PlaceboAddikt]

id just get a random guy from...hmmm..the 1700's and take them to a rave. that would be great. ot maybe a random chick because women from that time were more uptight right?

[WhisperingWoods]

Well, I don't believe jesus ever existed so I'll go with Thomas Jefferson. Just to show him how fucked up society is.

[IntenseHeat]

Hitler of course.

[prankster1590]

id just get a random guy from...hmmm..the 1700's and take them to a rave. that would be great. ot maybe a random chick because women from that time were more uptight right?
yeah
amadeus mozart

[BlackGuardXIII]

I'd show him how right he was, and get him to make a speech, to help us, if he wanted to.

[hippypaul]

id just get a random guy from...hmmm..the 1700's and take them to a rave. that would be great. ot maybe a random chick because women from that time were more uptight right?
You do not read much history do you (grin). Women have never been uptight they have just been more or less oppressed.

[Ole_Goat]

I would bring back the Marx Brothers and appoint them to the Supreme Court. Probably would need them longer than just one afternoon.

[DaveHT]

I would bring back all religious people that persicuted scientists for saying the earth was round or that said the earth revolved around the sun. Then I would show them all that they were wrong not the scientists, then burn them at the stake.

[localhippy]

Timothy Leary

[WanderingturnupII]

Take Bill Shakespeare out for a few beers, and see a modern production of The Tempest...Oh yeah...

[Blueriver]

Thoreau, I'd take a hike with him and hear him ramble. I'm with Yossarian. I'd like to spend some time with Mr. Thoreau. He's been an inspiriation to me in some important ways. Maybe Walt Whitman could join us, too.

[TopNotchStoner]

It would be Alexander Shulgin and get him to take me to his lab.

[prankster1590]

Ken Kesey and his merry prankster

[Weissdorn]

I would just love to:

Send Da Vinci and Archimedes to NASA
Give Mozart a guitar and send him to a David Bowie concert
Make Jesus the President of the Exxon Corporation
Make Ghandi the President of the European Union
Send Hitler to the Hari Krishners
Turn Joseph Stalin into a crippled U.S. Veteran and let him try in vain to get proper medical treatment
Make Chief Joseph of the Nezperz the President of the United States of America
Let Erich Honnecker be a guy whose job it is to clean restrooms
Let Jimi Hendrix work on a musical with Andrew L. Weber
Make Sidharta Buddha President of the World Bank

[rbasm]

I'd bring back jesus or whoever he's based on and just sit around with him in a trailer park and get drunk off cheap whiskey and see what he has to say about shit

[Ole_Goat]

I'd bring back jesus or whoever he's based on and just sit around with him in a trailer park and get drunk off cheap whiskey and see what he has to say about shit
I guess it doesn't matter how cheap the whiskey is, if he didn't like it - he could always change it into wine.

[themnax]

famous implies someone people think they know more about then the do because they've heard of their name.

intelligence hasn't increased or decreased that signifigantly that any changing places in time couldn't eventualy figgure out what was going on and how the society arround them was working, the mechanics of it, though going either way very far invoulves risk of making big and possibly fatal blunders in that department.

ghandi was, i think, one of my favorites, but i only really know of his portrayal and what people think he said and did. i don't think i'd want to submit him to what is going on now. oh i'm sure he could take it alright. i just don't think it would be much of a kindness to him, other then maybe seeing india independent and all that. somehow i don't think he'd be all that impressed with the rest of what we've done with our world since his time. but then again i guess his time, however in many ways different, wasn't really all THAT long ago, as the scale of culture shaping events goes.

i'm really not a person who focuses on persons so i can only observe and avoid making the assumptions that people who do tend to.

i think i might have liked to have known lao tsu. i don't know that, but i think i might. it might be fun to have him teach phylosophy at some modern u.s. college or university. i don't think this would be any kindness to him. but we could sure use it.

yah i wouldn't mind letting him spend the night at my place.
let him get on here and show him how if he'd be interested.
it's anybody's guess as to weather he would be or not.
i doubt he'd love the way where i live is built arround cars the way it is.

and the beliefs that dominate today's world he'd probably see as being as nutso as i do.

he'd get by though.
hell he survive master kung and the warlords both, as soon as he figured out how things worked he'd survive ok here too.

=^^=
.../\...

[Ole_Goat]

John Wayne, I'd have him watch "Brokeback Mountain".

[wonderboy]

I'd bring back jesus or whoever he's based on and just sit around with him in a trailer park and get drunk off cheap whiskey and see what he has to say about shitfor some reason this seemed so profound to me :)

I think Joan D'Arc would be a pretty interesting person, and I'd also really like to meet Attilla. I wouldn't mind meeting some Mayans too.

I think Che is definetly up there too

[EMMAh]

Kurt Cobain! Duh!

[themnax]

well if you want to count popular musicians; jimi hendrix and janis joplin. for politicians within the last century, jfk and the other members of his family who'se deaths were by misadventure. doctor king too, although he couldn't have died at a more perfect time for his own purposes if he had choosen it himself. if he were alive today, well i think he did his best work while he was alive to do it. ghandi may have been the same way only i'm not so sure. kennidy did however die at the wrong time. he should have been alive for a couple of more years and had a chance to grow to see more clearly through the smoke screen of anti-'communist' propiganda.

we would likely never have had nixxon, raygun, or either of the bush's if he had.
we might not have the effects of global warming now either. and that's NOT claiming he could walk on water or anything else. then again he WAS in a LOT of physical pain very few people, even though a lot of us more or less vaguely knew, every really thought all that much about, so maybe his dying when he did was a mercy to him too.

=^^=
.../\...

[Chinese Troubadour]

Bring George Washington, there are too many problems in USA unsolved, only the founder can solve them.

[HikerHauk]

no, he support slavery

there are problems everywhere

we have to figure them out ourselves

[RELAYER]

The man in my sig

[Last Stand]

Bring back Hitler and during his famous speech in front of thousands of elite troops i would be next to him .....but just before he was going to blast the jews i would correct him . my dear leader not jews the muslims . then Hitler would agree and today it would had been a whole lot difrent.

[Last Stand]

dont take it serius is just a joke.

[Last Stand]

it sure be Fun if you could have a Time machine and be able to make alterations to History then see what the end product is . if it dont work just go back and try a difrent formula.........Maybe i just watch too much Doctor Who.

[Ole_Goat]

no, he support slavery

there are problems everywhere

we have to figure them out ourselves
The how about John Adams and/or Ben Franklin?

[Chinese Troubadour]

hey no no no I chose George Washington in purpose. His insight was profound: he publically denounced party politics, and himself was the only president of US that does not belong to any parties. all other politicians in his time became party politicians. and you can see he was right just by looking at the race of Republican/Democrats. although he supported slavery, but you have to look at the time period, that time many people in south owned slaves.

[B0ngHitz420]

I'd like to watch Jefferson read the amendments to the constitution!

Taking Edison thru BestBuy might be a hoot as well.
O man i laughed pretty hard whe i read that last part!

[Darky Boy]

The guy who's name I forgot, taught dogs in WWII to blow up Allies tanks by strapping mines on their back but only got their own German tanks destroyed, because he didn't teach them to recognise tank pattern.

[Last Stand]

The guy who's name I forgot, taught dogs in WWII to blow up Allies tanks by strapping mines on their back but only got their own German tanks destroyed, because he didn't teach them to recognise tank pattern. Governor Thats easy ,that was the governor of New Orleans last hurricane season.

[Last Stand]

But hes not dead yet.

[Darky Boy]

Nope, not him. It happened in WWII, and he's the first one to try that. Smart but failed miserably.

[Last Stand]

Nope, not him. It happened in WWII, and he's the first one to try that. Smart but failed miserably. They got rid of him shortly after the fail experiment.

[Darky Boy]

Not sure the experiment you are refering to but he tried it on the battlefield. So yeah, must be that experiment.

[punkerchic]

MLK.

To show him how the world has changed.

[*ariana*]

martin luther king jr
john f kennedy
jacqueline kennedy
abraham lincoln

one of them, simply cause I think they've got interesting personalties and cause I'd like to get to know them...

[Wasteland]

Frank Zappa and Salvador Dali.

[Forgotten-holocaust]

I would bring back Jesus and violently rape him on public television.hehhehhe *cries*
i will bring back

1. Martin Luther king "to see what he thinks of America and the world know"
2. Freddie Mercury " i would love to see him perform"
3. Jesus christ " to hear his ideas - just form him"

[AerialReaver]

Jimi Hendrix

[Forgotten-holocaust]

adds jimmy Hendrix too :)

[MaximusXXX]

Joseph Goebbels

[Ole_Goat]

Joseph Goebbels
Ok..I must ask, why Goebbels?

[Peace Attack]

Marie Antoinette. For no particular reason really, i've just always had a fascination with her. Maybe we can discuss fashion.

Also Beethoven so he can teach me how to play piano.

[erzebet1961]

Henry The VIII.

[MaximusXXX]

Ok..I must ask, why Goebbels?
I currently take Journalism as my major in Uni, and in my personal view Goebbels was a genius in manipulating media, he could also help me with my Political Science minor.

[bellringer]

Steve Irwin and ask him wtf a stingray? a fucking stingray!

[gulfwinds]

of all world history you'd bring back steve irwin??? :confused:

Buddha, he may as well explain something more.

[clementinexo]

john lennon.. kurt cobain. jimi hendrix. a few others.

[myself]

Henry The VIII.
Elizabeth I.

[underground04]

thomas paine
thomas jefferson
martin luther king jr.
michael collins and/or brian boru

[MIIDAJ]

jefferson, a great libertarian mind.

[tc_omega]

Syd barrett

[hotwater]

Yup, Ben Franklin can't be beat. Walk around Philly nude eating tomatoes, which is what Ben Franklin did on occasion. Of course back then peolpe thought that tomatoes were poisonous.
Professor Jumbo,

That's something I would not want to see :mad:


How about Lady Godiva :drool:



Hotwater

[dollydagger]

I would like to bring jimi hendrix around here...introduce him to reggae....let him hear some of the little bit of good music we have now

[blueberryswirl]

Bob Marley and William Wallis

[phriendofthedevil]

Abraham Lincoln is so overrated.
He actually supported slavery - he even owned slaves. He just outlawed the owning of another human being to punish the south for leaving the union.

JOHN LENNON PLEASE.

[phriendofthedevil]

Marie Antoinette. For no particular reason really, i've just always had a fascination with her. Maybe we can discuss fashion.

Also Beethoven so he can teach me how to play piano.
my good friend is a distant relative of marie antionette. ive always felt really bad for marie antionette. shes got such a bad rep, when really, it wasn't her fault-she was young. she'd be interesting to talk too id think.

[phriendofthedevil]

I guess it doesn't matter how cheap the whiskey is, if he didn't like it - he could always change it into wine.
I think i love both of you.

[neponiatka]

my friends Bob Marley and Elvis...
of course i can talk to them every time i want in my mind but it would be nicer to talk to living friend ya know...
:-P

[oncetwicepass]

agreed

[oncetwicepass]

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

[Airfern1313]

Groucho Marx

[Ole_Goat]

Groucho Marx
All good choices [sings] Hurray for Capt. Spaulding, the African Explorer. The one you'll adore, hurray hurray hurray!

But what would you talk about? What would you show him?
It might be interesting to see if JRR Tolkien would approve of the film adaptation of the 3 rings. What would he like to see in a film adaptation of "The Hobbit"?

[Imagine17]

John Lennon, Lincoln, Jefferson.

[Posthumous]

Socrates

[Medici999]

Nick Drake...Jim Morrison...oh and Johnny Cash - RIP

[Medici999]

Yeah and Arthur Rimbaud too...

Thank goodness Bobby Dylan is still alive!

[Medici999]

Fuck and Jack Kerouac ofcourse... how could I forget...

[sourdiesel06]

Mozart and I would introduce him to the synthesizer

[plastic bagism]

Lennon, I'd say. He didn't have enough time to spread his message.

[HappyMonday]

rerun...we'd go to rob's place and mess with shirley....dwayne would put ole black water on the juke and raj, dee, and me would dance the night away (until the tape recorder fell out)

[PSYCHEDELICA MAN]

janis joplin,no doubt

[PsyGrunge]

John Bonham and Keith Moon.

[Asmodean]

Ghandi.

[Frater Matthew]

Hitler and Jesus. I would set them down together and have them read a biography on each others. then have them duke it out. 'rooting for Jesus!'

[Wond'ringAloud]

Eleanor of Aquitaine

[Ole_Goat]

Eleanor of Aquitaine
Have her watch "Lion in Winter" with Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. She comes off rather well in that movie.

[DQ Veg]

I'd bring back the Founding Fathers. I'm sure they'd immediately call for another revolution.

[YellowOchre]

John Lennon. And I would ask him to teach me important and smart things about peace and love, and introduce me to Yoko, and we should drink tea and have fun and dance and sing! :)

[DirtyDave]

I'd bring back FDR and put his ass back in the White House.


Or Marilyn Monroe for more personal enjoyment.

Actually, I think it'd be great to bring the founding fathers back. What those guys did was amazing, I'd like to get their take on what is going on today, and see if they could straighten things out.

[maryjanegirl_2005]

I feel like putting a random person on here...so, how about Paul Revere!

[westham]

malcolm x.

[madcap]

hmm thats hard, if i had to pick one it would be john lennon, i'd just want to meet him for one day and id be happy

[lozzyjay]

Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Syd Barrett!!

[J.I.]

Josip Broz Tito.:)

[Stiney]

I'd bring Jesus Christ, that Mohamad fella, Moses and the Buddha into the present, stick a pair of boxing gloves on them all, book Madison Square Garden, advertise the ticket as Jesus-vs-Buddha, Moses-vs-Mohamad and the winners of those two fight for the Worlds Greatest Profit belt. I'd own all the rights to the fight seeing as I set it up by messing with the space time thing. Then I'd just sit back and watch the pay per view cash role in.

In the red corner, we have, Fighting out of the Holy Trinity Gym, the King of the Jews, Son of our Lord, Jesus "El Saviourrrr" Christ!, Christ!!

And in the blue corner we have, fighting out of Hindu India Boxing Club, The Enlightened One, Siddhartha "Bruiser Buddha" Guatama!, Guatama!!

"LLLLLLETS GET READY TO RRRRRUMBLLLLE!"

[lifelovefun]

If he even existed, I'd bring Jesus to the present, and ask him to make sure that he has his disciples write down that drugs are good, free love is the best, and that money doesn't have any meaning.

If we got lucky, than maybe the world would fix itself before our eyes :)

[rebelfight420]

Gandhi, mlk jr , mother teresa,edgar poe,jesus,buddha,socrates,nietzche,tommy j,best choices

worst choices- adolf hitler, Stalin, benito mussolini,ivan the terrible, abe lincoln,vlad the impaler,al capone,jack the ripper,charles luciano,

[dances in pajamas]

I would bring back Queen Elizabeth I just to meet her and talk to her. Hear her opinions on life and government.

Jim Morrison as well. For many, many reasons.

[ThePianoMan]

I would bring back Martin Luther King Jr. The only episode I've seen of the show 'The Boondocks' was one where MLK was not dead, just in a coma and just awoke in 2006. He was shocked and appaled at the state of the black community. I can imagine if he was brought back and saw the state of the African-American community is in after over fifty hears over his march on Washington. He would be terribly dissapointed. The black community needs someone like MLK to come and straighten them out, because they are digging themselves deeper by only reinforcing the stereotypes of them being thugs instead of working their way up the ladder to positions of power.

Then again, I may not bring him back. Why show him that so far, he mostly died in vain.

[WVHippie]

I would bring Ghandi back, because his nonviolent methods really kick ass!

[L.A.Matthews]

I would bring Ghandi back, because his nonviolent methods really kick ass!
Ghandi was a racist bastard!:eek:

[WVHippie]

I would bring back Abbie Hoffman so me and him could go to the White House and flip off Bush and Cheney together!

[madlizard]

Franklin, Thoreau, Orwell..

[nolifer]

Freddie Mercury, there's no contest there for me

[scarynickname]

For an afternoon ... Nikola Tesla. Then I would get him to rewire my garage so that arcs of electricity would shoot out of the roof!

[jolie]

I'd bring back Edgar Allen Poe. Stay up all night talking about how depressed we are and take part in the use of "mind altering substances".

[CasieNmynameisjake07]

Jim morrison, bob marley, janis joplin, and jimi hendrix. I would smoke some good ass weed and drink with them all day.

[IlUvMuSIc]

Ghandi was a racist bastard!:eek:


How was he?

[L.A.Matthews]

How was he?

I can't be bothered to explain the whole thing, but here's a source for it:

To understand Gandhi's role towards the blacks, one requires a knowledge of Hinduism. Within the constraints, a few words on Hinduism will suffice: The caste is the bedrock of Hinduism. The Hindu term for caste is varna; which means arranging the society on a four-level hierarchy based on the skin color: The darker-skinned relegated to the lowest level, the lighter-skinned to the top three levels of the apartheid scale called the Caste System. The race factor underlies the intricate workings of Hinduism, not to mention the countless evil practices embedded within. Have no doubt, Gandhi loved the Caste system.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

There's more on that website. It's widely known fact that Ghandi was a racist bigot, although obviously this doesn't discredit what good he did in India.

[C.D]

I'd bring Hitler, and take him to a cuddle party. ha.

But seriously, probably Henry David Thoreau. We could chill by a river and discuss life.

[madlizard]

Oh, and Jim Morrison.
Yes, I'd take advantage of him.
:)

[dirtydog]

It's widely known fact that Ghandi was a racist bigot, although obviously this doesn't discredit what good he did in India.I haven't checked all the sources in the trinicenter.com article yet. A Richard Grenier article in Commentary magazine dated 1983 notes that Mohanda Gandhi was a British Sergeant-Major in the Second Boer War (South African War) and that he was awarded the War Medal. This included military action against the Zulu. Presumably it was also before Gandhi came up with his concept of satyagraha or truth-striving, with its emphasis on non-violence. Grenier claims that Gandhi loved all things British at this stage of his life.

Whether one would care to side with the British or with the Zulu during a Zulu uprising, I leave to the reader.

I have the 31 page Grenier review of the movie Gandhi, titled "The Gandhi Nobody Knows", on disk and available free to anyone who would like it.

[Hibiscusparadiseyogi]

I would bring back Jesus and have him read the New Testament. After a round of uncontrollable laughter, I would have him go on the talk show circuit whereby telling the Christian fundamentalists what the truth actually is.

[midgardsun]

The architect of the sphinx. Or one of the olmec spiritual leaders. Or the guy who constructed stonehenge.

[kwakwa]

I would bring back Michelangelo, the genius painter, sculptor and architect because I know of no one alive today who rivals his virtuosity.

[killuminati]

the first human being who ever existed

[Tool Army2012]

I would bring back some mayan astronomers.

[def zeppelin]

Viktor E. Frankl

Just have a chat with him.

[peacechicka1]

Hendrix, i would love to have one night with him ;)

[autophobe2e]

bring a young hitler up here, get him laid, send him back, avert world war 2!!!

[Beckner420]

lololol^

Hitler had some fine women in his days though.

Id get Eve and start civilization, so id be Adam.

[YellowOchre]

.. And Richard Fariña!

[killuminati]

Jimi Hendrix, so he could show people how its done.

i'd just like for him to develop his talent all the way, he was flourishing when he died. songs like pali gap, night bird flying, angel, and other posthumous releases show that he was the best one getting better.

[themnax]

rafeal alloisius lafferty. he needs to have had a chance to have written more then he did. so did douglas adams.

=^^=
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[Style]

Andy Warhol. I have no idea what I would show him. I would just like to hang out with Andy Warhol.

[dirtydog]

I think Warhol and Fuller would appreciate the following. In a nonliterate or illiterate society such as ours, fame as it pertains to historical figures is meaningless, since no one reads anymore. They have cell phones or Ipods glued to their ears, which they turn off long enough to listen to the Three Minute Hate coming across the public alarm systems, the Ipods and the cell phones five times a day.

Big Brother loves me. Big Brother loves me. Big Brother loves me. And of course, I love Big Brother, even as he watches me type.
http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/bush6.jpg

(The Five Minute Hate has been shortened to three minutes due to measured attention span studies.)

[dirtydog]

lololol^Hitler had some fine women in his days though.
Id get Eve and start civilization, so id be Adam.Tell that to Geli Raubal, Renate Mueller or Eva Braun, all of whom were reportedly lovers of Hitler, and all of whom were either murdered by Hitler or his accomplices, or committed suicide.

[Slaughterfish]

William Shakepeare.

Only so I may spend the afternoon with him myself and get to know him.
I would much rather go back to his times though.
If only for an afternoon.

[japheth]

Jesus.....

I think it would have been so cool to sit and listen to him talk , and see the commotion that happened everytime he came to some village...kinda like a rock star prophet , with his groupies.

[MariusCesar]

James Douglas Morrison... as much as I hate listening to poetry from random people. Jim's poetry was so universally euphoric. Great song writer and poet.

I would show him how "The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun…"

Marius

[adore]

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[Gaius Corvinus]

Skanderbeg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skanderbeg)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Skenderbeu.jpg/180px-Skenderbeu.jpg

[Ray Krebbs]

It would be George Washington for me. I honestly think he was the greatest man to have lived! His entire life was a work of art in the sense it was an artifice under his control.

Although Washington descended from important families, his situation wasn’t quite the easeful life that suggests. He was only 11 when his father died, and (in order to stabilize social class) virtually the entire estate was left to his brother, the first son. This compelled Washington to either face the future as a ward of his brother, an unthinkable alternative for George, or take destiny into his own hands as a boy.



He even eventually freed his slaves without being coerced to do so. Washington could easily have been the first king in America but he discouraged any thinking on that score, and despite many critics, he was so universally admired the seat of government was named after him while he was still alive.

[thehippie_08]

Richard The Lionheart. he sounds like a pretty stand up guy. not that i'm all for killing muslims to take control of the "holy land", but he was a good king. i mean, he actually fought with his subjects, how unheard of is that?

[McLeodGanja]

Arthur C Clarke

He's only just dead, but he'd be more freaked out than you and I would be I bet. He could come back and do a special one off episode of Arthur C Clarke's Myterious World on his coming back.