 Editor in Chief Bill   | 23 Nov 2018 6:42 p.m. PST |
You were asked – TMP link If you had a time machine that only got you back in time, and couldn't get you back home, would you go? 9% said "USA, 1975"
7% (tie) said "USA, 2015" and "USA, 1960" |
| Zephyr1 | 23 Nov 2018 9:43 p.m. PST |
1975 would be good, as I could go give myself a heads up about the future… ;-) |
| Twilight Samurai | 23 Nov 2018 10:16 p.m. PST |
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| Old Contemptibles | 23 Nov 2018 11:25 p.m. PST |
August 1974 would work best for me. |
robert piepenbrink  | 24 Nov 2018 8:18 a.m. PST |
Must be a lot of non-historian TMP members too young to remember 1975 very well. |
| epturner | 24 Nov 2018 12:04 p.m. PST |
1975 would work for me. I would make to tell myself to save every baseball and hockey card. And every plastic toy soldier from Child World and the Helen of Toy company. And ALL my comics. Eric |
| 14Bore | 24 Nov 2018 2:00 p.m. PST |
I lived through 1975, why would I want to do it again? |
| shirleys painting | 25 Nov 2018 8:47 a.m. PST |
I was born in 1975! but my husband, john, was 9 years old. He said he liked all the hobby shops that were around pre internet. Hobby hangout was still on Northampton st. And that was in bike distance |
| Jeffers | 26 Nov 2018 9:04 a.m. PST |
1975 is not bad. I could visit the Royal Tornament and watch Lawrence of Arabia with my dad again. |
| Henry Martini | 26 Nov 2018 5:05 p.m. PST |
Ah 1975; my first year at high school, aged twelve, at the first school assembly, listening to the headmaster's extraordinary, bizarre but crudely poetic free-flowing racist rant, cataloging for the benefit of the new intake the sorts of people he didn't want at his school. As best as I can remember it: No d---s, w--s, w--s, y--s, b---s, -------, yobs or yahoos! Yes, those were the days, my friend. |
| BW1959 | 01 Dec 2018 12:00 p.m. PST |
At least I was still single in 75 |
| AICUSV | 05 Jan 2019 5:16 p.m. PST |
Anyone who remembers the 1970s, wasn't alive then. |
| von Schwartz | 05 Jan 2019 6:59 p.m. PST |
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| von Schwartz | 06 Jan 2019 7:20 p.m. PST |
Martini, from what little I can extrapolate from your description of your headmaster's rant it sounds like he may have contributed to the lyrics for "I'd love to change the world" by Ten Years After. That particular little ditty came out just 4 years prior, 1971, a great year, the year I graduated from high school. Yeah, I know, I was only 24 and my lovely wife only 25 (I love older women) when we got married.
Look it up, the lyrics I mean, not my boring past. |
| Gerard Leman | 17 Jan 2019 4:10 p.m. PST |
As best as I can remember it: No d---s, w--s, w--s, y--s, b---s, -------, yobs or yahoos! Vanna, I'd like to buy a vowel. :-) |
| von Schwartz | 18 Jan 2019 7:36 p.m. PST |
Actually the lyrics were, "Freaks and hairies, dy-es and fa--ies, tell me where is sanity?" So, did I avoid the auto-bleep? |
| Old Wolfman | 12 Mar 2019 7:04 a.m. PST |
I'd pass on 1975. Too cheesy for my taste. |
| von Schwartz | 12 Mar 2019 5:23 p.m. PST |
My bellbottoms and I strongly disagree! |
 Mserafin | 25 Mar 2019 11:41 a.m. PST |
My first visit to the UK, where my uncle introduced my 16-year old self to the joys of the pub. Yeah, I'd do that again! |
