"If you could bring back 3 people from the past?" Topic

Lets say you have a machine that can bring back 3 persons from the past.
Which three would it be?

1. Newton, think he would have loved to see all what has happend in science and techoology the last 300 years

2. Wellington, just to show him the military advances, just think how cool it would be for him to sit on a super sonic figher plane, or shooting a mini gun(doing the same amount of fire power as 6000 men from his period)

3. Random persjon(that speaks some sort of english) from 1000 AD just to look at their faces when they run away from metal demons(cars)

I choose people that speak english as I don't speak french or german, if I did it would be cool to bring back beethoven, mabye medical science could have fixed his hearing.

If I spoke french I would have changed Newton with Pierre-Simon Laplace

Hitler's Mum

Hitler's Dad

Hitler's Mum's Gynaecologist.

Then we could stop Hitler ever being born.

Pat

I would bring back my two uncles and my friend Isa.

Bill Clinton

Robinson Crusoe

Godzilla

I don't think you've quite the hang of this…

Any road up

Hitler

Napoleon

Genghis Khan

Then we'd find out who…

what ARE you on about Connard? EVERYONE knows Hitler was better in bed.

Anias Nin

Madame Godiva

Cleopatra

:~)

John

Patton

Patton

and more Patton

Or my Grandma… She would give Patton a run fer his money.

Montcalm : he's got some explaining to do.

Marylin Monroe : I just want to…ahem…"talk" with her

The Archduke Charles : It would be so cool to talk with him around a cup of coffee in Vienna. I don't speak german, but as most noble of the era, I would think he spoke French

My Father…so i could spend some more time with him.

My Aunt Minnie…so I could spend some more time with her.

King Arthur…so we can finally find out who the heck he really was!

Just Patton and Monty, then we could stick them alone in a darkened room for the rest of eternity and it would spare the "who's a better general" thread popping up here every 3 months.

seeing as I still have 1 more I'll take Pamela Anderson circa 1992 …I know shes not dead yet, but I'm changing the rules

- but I'm changing the rules -

Bof, not really. I mean, her career has been dead for a long time!

Scurvy, big mean elf……….. sorry

Hannibal, lee, and maybe Julius caesar.

Or maybe a few religious leaders to let them know what people would use their teachings to justify. gits.

Besides, the question is about three persons from the past, not three DEAD people.

I'd bring back myself circa age 25 and find some mad scientist to transplant my nearly 50 year old brain into it.

Then I'd bring back the Fat Elvis and the Fat Hemmingway and confirm my theory regarding which of them would be victorious in a no holds barred fight to the death.

My mom.

My Dad

My Step Dad

My Dad in Law

Just like to have a burger and a beer with them one more time.

My Grandad in his late 30s before he went to war so I could tell him he's going to be okay and then we can have a chat without there being a 75 year age difference.

Churchill

Yoda

John F. Kennedy – Childhood hero

Teddy Roosevelt – Just think he would be a very interesting man to know.

Ann Richards – Met her a few times over the years. A great lady and govenor with a terrific sense of humor

Dave

My father so he can enjoy his grandkids
My mother-in-law so she can enjoy her grandkids
A cousin who died at 16 so she could have a second chance at a life.

Brian

Obviously, lost loved ones and friends are the top three choices. I'd be tempted to do the same. But, for grins, rule out anybody you actually know.

Thomas Jefferson
Patrick Henry
FDR

(reasons reserved for Blue Fez)

Keith Moon – because it would be one hell of a binge

Casanova – because I could do with some tips

Marilyn Monroe – well I could put Casanova's coaching to good use…although I might still be drunk after my lost weekend with Keith

Patrick O'Brien- More Jack Aubrey

Sibelius -Get that eighth symphony sorted

Shakespeare- did you really mean all that stuff our English teachers said you were putting in there

Pythagoras
Quanah Parker
Hank Williams

Ok. I am taking back one of my Pattons, for exchange for Audry Hepburn… hubba hubba Someone with that much acting talent really should continue.

I'd want to manage the top 3 prophets on their return to the world lecture and signing tour.

H.P. Lovecraft (so he could see how famous he got)
Thomas Jefferson (so he could give us his opinion on modern stuff)
My sister (just cause)

Not one.

This is all water under the bridge at this point.

mjc

Larry, Moe and Curly?

And just to avoid the famous generals that most would enjoy interviewing or to get them writing etc. …
George Macdonald Fraser to finish the Flashman series--or at least complete the ACW one. Similarly, H. Beam Piper to continue on the Kalvan of Otherwhen character and to turn it into a series. And Pierre de Fermat--prove it, buddy.

My Dad (he passed when I was 6). Would have loved to have known him.
Of course my grandparents.
But others would be:

Napoleon
Lee
Jesus

Alexander the Great
Gustavus Adolphus
Me, as I wish I could have been.

They'd all be pretty stinky, with pieces falling off and stuff like that, so nobody, really. Maggots might be nature's vacuum cleaners, but I prefer my carpets clean and entrail-free.

Robert F. Kennedy. so the USA could get another chance.

John Lennon and George Harrison, so the Beatles could rise again.

-- I do like the suggestion of Larry, Moe, and Curly, though!! We could all sure use the laughs!

"Robert F. Kennedy. so the USA could get another chance."

Not to snark too much, but just how many Kennedys coming back from political death do we *need*?

Not even famous decomposers like Beethoven and Mozart, MahanMan?

Initiall I thought of Gustav Mahler but then it had to be to answer some of my historical queries:

Francis Suttill – SOE agent "Prosper" to find out what the hell he was thinking with the way he ran his network in France.

Denis Rake – SOE agent who seems to have been the most unlikely and outragous of the crew sent to France.

Francis Cannaerts – to find out what made a truely successful SOE agent.

Grape Ape "Larry, Moe and Curly?"

Nah. Groucho, Harpo and Chico.

Three people who know where as-yet undiscovered treasures are buried.

I would then convince them of the virtues of "gratefulness".
-Kle.

AndyG-

Good pun, but a) I don't speak German, so as much as I admire their works, that's no good, and b) it's no good in Ludwig's case anyway, from what I understand.

Hey Inquisitor I'm with you – one more call for the Marx Brothers.

- Einstein
- Mother Theresa
- Carl Sagan

And if I could choose a fourth:
- Hitler, he got off too easy and should have a trial.

[Hitler, he got off too easy and should have a trial.]

He did have a trial, remember? It made his career and got him launched in politics. Why give that nut-case a second chance? Besides, does anybody really need a jury to figure out whether he did anything wrong?

I'm not so sure about the notion of bringing back people from long ago and sticking them in our world. They'd just be all panicked and confused and couldn't think straight, much less function. Can you imagine trying to explain your daily routine to somebody from the pre-Industrial age, who has never even used a clock before? So I think I'll stick to the past century.

My choices:

* My little brother David. I'd have liked to have had a little brother. I suspect it would have made me a better kid, knowing that somebody looked up to me. (sisters don't count! they're on a different planet!)

* Warren Zevon (he never lived to see the conclusion of "The Sopranos."

* Bob Marley (he'd be president of Jamaica by now, and how cool would that be, to see him with grey dreds?)

…oh man, I can't just stop at three…

* Kirsty McCall, Robert Palmer, Mark Sandman, Jeff Buckley, Peter Tosh… They were all too cool, and still much too young to go.

Brigham Young (just to watch him have a cataleptic fit over the modern Mormon church >:D )

Jesus of Nazareth, to see how much he approximates to the religious mythology of Jesus Christ.

Muhammed, to throw all the Muslim fundies a well-deserved loop.

(Heh, look at that, not a single military dude in my top three.)

After that, if I could bring back more than three, I would go for emperor Claudius, to see if he was a recognizable character as Robert Graves (and Derek Jacobi) had him.

William the Conqueror, just because.

Richard Lionheart and Saladin.

William Marshal

Richard the Third

Ben Franklin

Robert E. Lee

Teddy Roosevelt

Manfred Von Richthofen

Adolf Hitler

Marilyn Monroe

Bettie Page

Natalie Wood

….

If it's non famous people then it would be family of course.

Famous types would be Alexander The Great, Richard III and Louise Brooks the silent movie actress.

Any 'leader/prophet/etc' from any of the religions, preferably Christianity and Islam. If they can be bought back (and can 100% be proven to be genuine and not some loony) then it might help settle quite a few things. If they can't be bought back, then it's more proof people are living in denial and believing fairytales and creating all sorts of problems and wars based on them.

Aside from them, anyone who due to coming back would mean the British Empire never ceased and we could keep the world civilised.

Clam Dip Black Mombasa, I like your taste in music.

The whole group would be just the cure for pain. :)

Too bad you are not close enough to game with. My other buddies would hate us talking about peeps they have never heard of.

I would add, Sam Mustafa, to my list of people to bring back; just to end the confusion of reincarnated TMP handles he is constantly switching to….

I'd bring back the engineers that constructed Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid so that we could find out the why and the how of both works.

George McDonald Fraser so that he could complete the Flashman series.

Herman Goering.

Why did such an intelligent man sink to the depths of depravity that was Nazi Germany?

Robert Louis Stevenson so I could ask him about the wargame rules he wrote to play with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne.

HG Wells – provided he could bring his Britains armies and 4.7 inch guns – so we could play Little Wars with RLS.

Leutnant Georg von Reisswitz, creator of Kriegsspiel, so I could take him to Salute and see his reaction to hobby wargaming.