If you could go back in time to finish out your remainder of days on this earth would you?
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Only if I could go back as one of the 1930s gentlemen detectives that William Powell played in the movies.
It seems that life used to be kinda hard. I'll stay here.
I'm retired, in relatively good health, and living in a south Florida beach town. It's a hard NO for going back to East TN or Southwest VA at any point in time.
If I only had a little time left, I would be willing to go back to any point in my childhood just to see the people I knew who are now gone.
Long story, but in short con-artist-woman. The long story could be a best-seller.
So is this a Back to the Future time travel where I can go back however far I want or is it Quantum Leap/Hot Tub Time Machine where I go back into my former self in my own lifetime?
Only if I could go back as one of the 1930s gentlemen detectives that William Powell played in the movies.
Ah, "The Thin Man". Might be fun for a while. Live the high society life, and hang out and drink with Myrna Loy.
You'd have to go to Antarctic or find a deserted island to avoid all of the insanity in the world now.
You could pick anywhere in time but just as yourself not as someone else like the Quantum Leap show.
My answer is a big ole NO! I’m too accustomed to modern conveniences. Also appreciate availability of medicines and medical procedures, and current levels of sanitation and food safety.
He did a Philo Vance or 3. And he did other detective-with-cool-female movies with Jean Arthur and Ginger Rogers.
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I just went and poked around wiki to read about Powell and Myrna Loy. In the precis to their movie Double Wedding there is the great unconscious substitution of "lye" for "lie".
"Charlie is struck by Margit several times by accident in the tight confines of all the chaos. She is also struck and is knocked out. They both come to lye next to each other on the floor. Charlie comes to and gives her a kiss."
By the time many people read this I bet the page will be edited.
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I love how married guys can't say a single sentence without starting it with "My wife".........even though they spend every waking hour far away from her if possible. lol
Marriage is the wrong answer, don't let all the married guys that have had to convince themselves that it's the best because it's their only option on the board unless they want financial devistation. Not to mention raising a kid in today's world is not worth all the social medial stuff they (and you) will have to live through. FREEDOM is uptopia. If a day goes bad, you just get a good night of sleep and start all over the next day.
Pretty sure that's how life works. And with all respect, you sound pretty miserable with all that freedom.
Not even close. You wake up after a horrible day and she's still there and you get to do it all over again. And living the last 30 years or more of my life with a woman that's past her prime would make me miserable, LOL. Your insult bounces off of me. Such irony.....the guy that accuses someone of being miserable goes straight to insults.......the sure sign of a miserable person.
I live my life the way I want to. If you wanted to get married and love it (sure doesn't sound like it), then good. Everyone wants different things.
Enjoy your day.
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To each his own, but marriage and kids are the absolute best.
1960...that gives me 49 years before Obama takes office and I have to re-watch him destroy the world.
If you're married with kids, there's no room for any other perspective. You are locked in and have to convince yourself that it's the only way to enjoy life.
I've got married brothers that say they never intend on getting divorced, but not to listen to any married guy that tells you it's the only way. Glad you're happy as it's for YOU, not all of us.
Man, I love JC. Would think it’s a great place to be in the summer during retirement.
I was down in Johnson City last week for a funeral. Still didn't get time to hit up a Pal's.
We go back from Thanksgiving thru Christmas and for a couple of months during the summer to see the kids, grandkids, and my in-laws. JC and the Tri-Cities area in general is a nice place to live.
Pal's is probably the business I miss the most. That, and the fabulous hot dogs and beer selection at Model City Tap House in Kingsport.
I'd be too tempted to try to do something like stop 9/11, which would probably have ironic consequences, so no, I'd stay right when and where I'm at. Sorry JonathanW, I'd go back to October 10 with the winning Powerball numbers and help you and a lot of other people out if I was sure enough that I wouldn't somehow inadventently be setting into motion a nuclear war or something. :/
I would like the opportunity to stop Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac. I have the opportunity to stop Glenn, but not the bravery.
I always thought it would be neat to live in the days where traveling merchants existed.
You set off with camels and roam lands with geography and fauna you never knew existed. Roll up to a foreign city and are escorted to the Kings lair. And you show him cloves or cinnamon or whatever and blow his mind.
You set off with camels and roam lands with geography and fauna you never knew existed. Roll up to a foreign city and are escorted to the Kings lair. And you show him cloves or cinnamon or whatever and blow his mind.
Every period of time is very ****** in some way. So I’ll just stick with the period where I best know how to navigate thru the shittiness.
If I could take with me what I know now, yes, I would go back to 1970. If not, then a strong NO. I'm very happy with where I am now, I would just do a few things differently if I rolled back.
Would be pretty cool until you came down the bubonic plague and then spread it across the globe.
I'd probably just go back to around the mid 80's. I'd likely be dead before the world goes to sh*t from 2020 on.
Sorry to hear that. Remember there’s nothing in this life worth getting tore up over so trust nobody, always have a dog by your side and do the things you enjoy. It’s worked for me.