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Maybe a guest, maybe not!
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 1:28 pm |
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Ah, it's nice to see that our hero is the inventor of women's rights...and chips.
 - Or CHiPs!
Right.
Anyway, if you went back 2 centuries, what would you "invent"? |
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Ryan
Strawberry-blonde Milkshake
Joined: 27 Jan 2005
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Location: CANADA
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 1:57 pm |
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I'd be pretty useless, but I could work out some of the binary mathematics before anyone really bothered to. |
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Professor Stevie Freezie
Hotter in Real Life
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Posts: 8515
Location: St. Trevor's College for the Devilishly Handsome
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Faid
Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 3197
Location: The blissful, green silence of the hills of Arcadia
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 2:35 pm |
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I have a great idea! I'll time travel to the future, learn all there is to know about time travel, then return here and invent it! Also, I'll show myself how to travel to the future in the first place!
It's a sure-fire plan! OK, I'm doing it... NOW!
*waits*
*waits some more*
Ok, maybe I got somewhat distracted and will be a little late in returning...
*waits*
...Yeah, who wouldn't be? Just think of all the video games they must have way then!
*keeps waiting*
(Pan out through my apartment's window to the sunrise over the slowly waking city)
[off voice]...I mean, the FPS rate alone...[/off voice]
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The Famous Mr. Klaw
Totally Klawsome
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
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Location: Klawsylvania
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 2:49 pm |
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I'd invent the tension sheet! Then I could marry Sabrina Mulholland-Jjones! |
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corbie
previously levelheaded, NO LONGER
Joined: 08 Mar 2005
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Location: the rocket house
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 2:52 pm |
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i'd invent gravity. either that or apples. |
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SimonBob
Purvuct!! Hgggg
Joined: 05 Jun 2005
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Location: Ottawa
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:10 pm |
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I'd just kick around and wait for important things to be invented, and then invest in them. You want to make a horseless carriage? Sounds interesting! Here's some money, Mr. Ford. It'd be pretty funny if I decided to pull my money out of the stock exchange in 1929 because I knew the crash was coming, only it turned out I caused the crash by doing that! Then I could blame myself for WWII, hit an endless spiral of depression, and eventually become a footnote in history. |
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Yal
Joined: 21 Apr 2005
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:17 pm |
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Probably I could give some useful advice to the inventors and scientists of the time, but I'd be pretty useless with 18th century tools and materials.
More likely I would be institutionalized after decalring that giant lizards ruled the world 100 million years ago, and proceed to dump everything I know into a series of notebooks haphazardly covering every subject from economics to particle physics. They would be thoroughly ignored during my lifetime, and mostly wrong anyway. |
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Maradon!
Joined: 11 May 2005
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:22 pm |
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What the HELL is poutine? |
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Joined: 15 Jun 2005
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:25 pm |
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| What the HELL is poutine? |
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The Famous Mr. Klaw
Totally Klawsome
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
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Location: Klawsylvania
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:25 pm |
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| What the HELL is poutine? |
Wikipedia is our friend. |
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Boo
Joined: 20 Feb 2005
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Location: dino zone
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:28 pm |
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Poutine (n): A dish consisting of french fries, gravy and grated cheese. Syn.: Delicious. |
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Maradon!
Joined: 11 May 2005
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:29 pm |
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Well it SOUNDS good but... but it looks...
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Boo
Joined: 20 Feb 2005
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:30 pm |
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Maradon!
Joined: 11 May 2005
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:43 pm |
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It needs a less bizarre sounding name, too!
Poutine sounds like some sort of livestock innoculation, or disease. |
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rightbug
Joined: 12 Jun 2005
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:45 pm |
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| i'd invent gravity. either that or apples. |
It's weird that you said that because I've actually had this thought myself a lot recently and gravity is one of the examples I always think of. Usually, in my head, the conversation goes like this:
"What if every object in the universe exerts a pull on every other object and what if the that force varied inversely as the square of the distance between two objects?"
"I think I sort of understand what you're getting at -- Can you expand on that?"
"No, not really. But you're smart -- You run with it."
For some reason, longitude is another one I always think about:
"I think the solution to the longitude problem is absolutely to build a highly accurate time piece and synch it against an arbitrary point in Greenwich."
"Excellent -- And you can do this?"
"No, but you should put some of your best people on it and stop dicking around with complex mathmatical formulas involving Jupiter." |
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corbie
previously levelheaded, NO LONGER
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:54 pm |
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i wish i had business meetings in my head!
you're hired! |
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rightbug
Joined: 12 Jun 2005
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:06 pm |
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i wish i had business meetings in my head!
you're hired! |
I'll start tomorrow!
Also, this is the second day in a row that Dinosaur Comics was directly relevant to something in my recent life. T-Rex is teh stalking me? |
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Loeb Employee
Joined: 04 Apr 2005
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Location: lost in the supermarket
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:16 pm |
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Hey, isn't T-Rex already living well before any of that was invented? The strict realism of this comic is shattered! |
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sgower
As Himself
Joined: 11 Nov 2004
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Location: Ottawa
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:09 pm |
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| Poutine (n): A dish consisting of french fries, gravy and grated cheese. Syn.: Delicious. |
Actually, true poutine makes use of cheese curds, not grated cheese. |
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The Biggest Mollusk
Joined: 05 May 2005
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:27 pm |
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Dude, I'd totally go back and Make Sex with Betsy Ross! |
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John
Out-Talled
Joined: 11 Nov 2004
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:42 pm |
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| corbie wrote: |
i wish i had business meetings in my head!
you're hired! |
I'll start tomorrow!
Also, this is the second day in a row that Dinosaur Comics was directly relevant to something in my recent life. T-Rex is teh stalking me? |
Actually it's just Ryan's time machine. I'm not allowed to tell anyone about it though, because otherwise he'll go back in time and stop my parents from ever meeting.
OH CRAP |
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The Intranet
Captain of Industry
Joined: 07 May 2005
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Location: Your local place with intranets.
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:23 pm |
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| Hey, isn't T-Rex already living well before any of that was invented? The strict realism of this comic is shattered! |
He has a time machine, if you do remember. It was non-canon, but it went back in time to before it was non-canon and then went forward to around now.
THERE'S YOUR ANSWERS! |
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:48 pm |
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Poutine is damn good, but it's almost only serve in quebec so no one know about it. |
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The Famous Mr. Klaw
Totally Klawsome
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:50 pm |
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| Dude, I'd totally go back and Make Sex with Betsy Ross! |
How exactly would even a large mollusk handle such a task? Not that I don't support the sentiment! |
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Timefishblue
for $100, Alex.
Joined: 18 Dec 2004
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:53 pm |
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We have poutine at my school's cafeteria, but I don't get it because it's too hard to eat while talking (well, not talking, I guess, because I don't think eating/talking is a good idea with any food) and listening to people, and it shoots gravy everywhere.
It's good though! And putting ketchup on it is fine! |
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sgower
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Joined: 11 Nov 2004
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:01 pm |
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| Poutine is damn good, but it's almost only serve in quebec so no one know about it. |
Another correction: only GOOD poutine is served in Quebec; you can get poutine almost everywhere in Canada. We serve it at my restaurant! |
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The Biggest Mollusk
Joined: 05 May 2005
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:28 pm |
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| Dude, I'd totally go back and Make Sex with Betsy Ross! |
How exactly would even a large mollusk handle such a task? Not that I don't support the sentiment! |
Pearls, man.
Pearls.
 Ooooh! |
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theplustwo
Es ist ein schöner Tag
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Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:29 am |
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I'd invent Christianity!
Then I'd spearhead approximately 2000 years of wars and stuff over it! |
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John
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Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:28 am |
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| Poutine is damn good, but it's almost only serve in quebec so no one know about it. |
I guess we have poutine here, but we call it "chips with gravy and cheese". |
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