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When were you meant to be?
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poet13



Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 5:29 pm    Post subject: When were you meant to be? Reply with quote
I think I was meant to have lived sometime in the age of Kings and fiefdoms, and before gunpowder.

How about you?
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Chambertin



Joined: 07 Jun 2009
Location: Gunsan
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Toothbrushes, personal cleansing products, shaved leggs, and medical care are a few of my favorite things.

I'll take the 19th and beyond centuries for 1000 Alex
Future is mighty tempting, would be nice to zip across the star system with a clean greenskin by my side.
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oldfatfarang



Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: On the road to somewhere.
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 5:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The 60's. I've lived the bohemian life for years - but I missed all the really good times.
Love. Love. Love. ...... Love is all you need.
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poet13



Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I thought you WERE in the 60'2 O.F.F.?
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oldfatfarang



Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: On the road to somewhere.
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 5:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Missed the 60's by a whisker (sob). That's probably why my brain still functions comparitively OK.

Nevermind, I still got to wear the pasley /sheepskin jerkins and ripped jeans. And, yes, greasy long hair was my bag, baby.
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Forward Observer



Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Location: FOB Gloria
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 6:12 pm    Post subject: Re: When were you meant to be? Reply with quote
poet13 wrote:
I think I was meant to have lived sometime in the age of Kings and fiefdoms, and before gunpowder.

How about you?


You wouldn't have liked it much back then, lots and lots of stabbing goin' on.

Me: 1920's when men were men, and women knew their place. Very Happy
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harlowethrombey



Joined: 17 Mar 2009
Location: Seoul
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 6:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I enjoy antibiotics, labor laws, free speech, laser eye surgery and internet pron too much to go back too far.

I'd like to dip into the future and travel to a different planet. Assuming, of course, the future isnt a zombie wasteland, an ecological dystopia or Sarah Palin becomes president.
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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 6:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
a grade 5 student of mine wrote an essay on 'What other country would you like to visit' and choose China, saying he saw on t.v. a show about its history and he thinks he should have been an Emperor, that if he was living hundreds of years ago he would be the Emperor. He even stated then that he was sad that he isn't an Emperor, that he is only a boy in Korea Laughing
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Koveras



Joined: 09 Oct 2008
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 6:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Holy Roman Empire at its peak.
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phoneboothface



Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Korea
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 6:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Koveras wrote:
Holy Roman Empire at its peak.


Ya but from where and doing what at the time?
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Koveras



Joined: 09 Oct 2008
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
phoneboothface wrote:
Koveras wrote:
Holy Roman Empire at its peak.


Ya but from where and doing what at the time?


Judging by my family name, minor aristocracy in Bavaria.

edit: So what.. Choose 21st C. America: where and doing what? You might be an illegal Mexican immigrant working in a tobacco factory; you might be a mentally retarded siamese twin with muscular dystrophy. The question allows you to have other attributes in mind as well, apart from just place and time.

Last edited by Koveras on Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:34 pm; edited 2 times in total
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NightSky



Joined: 19 Apr 2005
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
got a kick out of this: what would you have been had you lived in Tudor times?

http://www.whothetudorareyou.com/

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ok, so you're not part of the nobility, but you're probably the highest ranking of the commoners. You own a bit of land, probably employ a few people, and are reasonably respected in the community.
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phoneboothface



Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Korea
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
NightSky wrote:
got a kick out of this: what would you have been had you lived in Tudor times?

http://www.whothetudorareyou.com/

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ok, so you're not part of the nobility, but you're probably the highest ranking of the commoners. You own a bit of land, probably employ a few people, and are reasonably respected in the community.


Merchant, no surprise there...
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poet13



Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Crap. It shot up to King, and I felt pretty smug...until it rolled all the way down to beggar. Guess I shouldn't have listed happiness as a primary goal.
I changed from academia to farmer, all others being the same, and relisted as yeoman farmer. I'm ok with that.
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Rusty Shackleford



Joined: 08 May 2008
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
harlowethrombey wrote:
I enjoy antibiotics, labor laws, free speech, laser eye surgery and internet pron too much to go back too far.

I'd like to dip into the future and travel to a different planet. Assuming, of course, the future isnt a zombie wasteland, an ecological dystopia or Sarah Palin becomes president.


You would have to be mad to want to live any other time than now. The poorest ESLer lives 100 times better than the 5 richest Kings of Europe did even 100 years ago. It's just that there are people richer than us that makes people feel like they are poor.
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