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...what era would it be and why?

do the 1960s count as another era? if so i'd love to be a hippie and go to Woodstock :)

The Victorian era. Though in all honesty I would find it very difficult to survive in any of the previous eras.

I'd only choose the victorian era because it's got the height of the industrial age in it. And the ships were cooler. Though I'd be all poor and would have a miserable time. Good time to be rich though.

do the 1960s count as another era? if so i'd love to be a hippie and go to Woodstock :)
pretty much. rock on!

do the 1960s count as another era? if so i'd love to be a hippie and go to Woodstock :)

Oh, yes - the '60's are another era. It was a time that is so totally different and it stands out. Well, that's my opinion. I would have loved to be at Woodstock, too - I was around then, but too young to go. Or rather, my parents thought I was too young.

this is my kind of thread
i would choose either the 1890s,1900s or the 1930s

This will sound weird. I would take Russia in the 1200's or so. My family was a very powerful Boyar family back then, so it wouldn't have been as bad. Also, maybe the 1800's, around the Napoleonic era. But really, in all honesty, todays era is the best to live in.

I would choose the 30th century when the aliens have invaded earth and enslaved humankind.
I'd be then fighting alongside the rebels against our evil oppressors with all those neat laser-guns and stuff! CRASH, BOOM, WHEEE!

Oh, yes - the '60's are another era. It was a time that is so totally different and it stands out. Well, that's my opinion. I would have loved to be at Woodstock, too - I was around then, but too young to go. Or rather, my parents thought I was too young.

Damn, I must be getting old when people think of the 60's as "another era." Damn, I graduated from high school in 1961. No I wasn't a hippie and I didn't go to woodstock. I was in the military and the hippies pretty much hated me.

I would probably want to live in Ancient Rome to work on my Latin.

I would probably want to live in Ancient Rome to work on my Latin.
:D

do the 1960s count as another era? if so i'd love to be a hippie and go to Woodstock :)
It's vastly overrated. :(

Right now. I'm happy now. More people have more money than ever before. We've got freedoms and democracy the likes of which have rarely been seen, if ever.

However, this doesn't specifiy living in another era if we know what's gonna happen in the future from our own era... 'cause if so, I'd make a few changes!

Damn, I must be getting old when people think of the 60's as "another era." Damn, I graduated from high school in 1961. No I wasn't a hippie and I didn't go to woodstock. I was in the military and the hippies pretty much hated me.
Same year I graduated HS. I'll be 62 this May, you? :)

:D

Hey, I've got to have goals, don't I? :D

do the 1960s count as another era? if so i'd love to be a hippie and go to Woodstock :)
ditto

no i think i will stick with the 1920s-30s
i just like the cars,jazz, and the hats!

Ancient Greece

1800, napoleonic era. Back when my family was still in france, and the nation was at the height of its power(give or take a few years).

yeah i think i wouldnt mind the napolionic era, considering my familly was very wealthy then, but they were more wealthy in the days of the empire and leading up to the 50s

no i think i will stick with the 1920s-30s
i just like the cars,jazz, and the hats!

I like the cut of your jib, gib, or any other variant spelling I'm unaware of. Good choice, sir.

I like the cut of your jib, gib, or any other variant spelling I'm unaware of. Good choice, sir.

thankue old chap..i always spell it gib but then again i could be rong

Hmmm... Victorian era, perhaps, 60s, (Damn, I can't think of anything original! :p ) um... and I'd like to go to Ancient Egypt. :D

do the 1960s count as another era? if so i'd love to be a hippie and go to Woodstock :)

You beat me to it! Oh well... maybe in the Star Wars timeframe lol. Seriously? be born mid 50s, grow up in 60s, and go hippy.

Got to go with Elizabethan times. All the court intrigues and secret messages, the pomp and spleandour of court and the beauty of rural England in the Summer. As long as I would be well off of course, because life was pretty much shit for everyone who didn't have a knighthood (exxageration :cool: )

Hmmm... Victorian era, perhaps, 60s, (Damn, I can't think of anything original! :p ) um... and I'd like to go to Ancient Egypt. :D

Would you see if aliens really did help build the pyramids? ;)

The 1930s in Catalonia or Aragon would be cool.

Also, maybe the 60s, people were pretty cool back then.

Colonial US would also be an interesting time and place to be, just to see what life was like.

The 1930s in Catalonia or Aragon would be cool.

Also, maybe the 60s, people were pretty cool back then.

may i ask why those particular places?

Would you see if aliens really did help build the pyramids? ;)
AH! You read my mind! I hope none of "them" are reading this forum, for if "they" are... "they"'ll know I'm onto "them"!

I think I've watched one too many Stargate SG-1/X-Files episodes... :D

anywhere between the 20's, 30's or 40's cuz well Fedoras rock. Plus I would've like to experience the 2nd world war first hand....

Mine is pretty boring but I would love to live in the 70s-eraly 80s so that way I could understand my parents better. Hopefully, I'd be able to see where thier ideas come from by seeing some of what they experienced.

If I were to live in another era, I'd like to live about 70 years BC, around Nazareth and Galilei, maybe Jerusalem ;)
(BTW, it has been calculated that Jesus was born approximately 100 years BC)
Talking to Jesus and becoming a diciple would rock :P
seriously though, I think it could be extremely interesting to meet "the man" himself.

Same year I graduated HS. I'll be 62 this May, you? :)

I am 52 as of last month.

As to former eras, almost any before this stupid century and the last stupid century works for me. My family had lands and power in a few countries long ago. The Jacobite Gazetteer is full of relatives on my mom's side, and some of my family held a lot of power in Bosnia-Hercegovina in the Medieval era. Even the Turks didn't totally spoil the party as some of them converted to keep their lands and take advantage of the Ottoman Imperial Pension plan so that would still have been o.k.
My dad's side had a lot of power in the area of Kiev, does the name Rurikovich ring any bells for the guy who had all those boyars in his family and wanted to go back to 12 century Russia?
Few former eras were a good time to be poor, including the present one. Few eras were free of war, disease, or stupidity. I guess it's a fun fantasy.

anywhere between the 20's, 30's or 40's cuz well Fedoras rock. Plus I would've like to experience the 2nd world war fist hand....

pal you have to be either crazy, thick or very honourable..i dont think you are thick because of the fedora bit :D

I think fedoras look cool on guys my fiance has one, but he saves it for occasions of State. I never got to see him wear it.

may i ask why those particular places?
The 30s in Spain so I can live in an almost purely egalitarian society.

The 60s in North America because people were pretty liberal and open minded.

The 1970's. Why? So I can see the Sex Pistols. And possibly the Ramones. I'd really like to be in "the action".

As I'm middle class, I'd have to say 15th century England. Get to witness some massive power changes, and not be affected by any of it. Also, start of the Renaissance - there was a heavy Italian city-state influence on England around the time the Tudors came to power (1485). Not poor enough to have a hard time of it, not rich or or powerful enough to be in danger of getting killed by some wannabe-king.
Oh, and I'd want the music from the 1970s as well :p

w00t! 500 posts. ahem....nothing to see here....

I would probably want to live in Ancient Rome to work on my Latin.

Ancient Rome or Greece would be cool if you were a citizen and didn't have to be in the army.

Same year I graduated HS. I'll be 62 this May, you? :)

62 on May 22nd. :) By the way what happens to my status when I go over 1,000 posts? I guess I'm about to find out.

The 30s in Spain so I can live in an almost purely egalitarian society.

The 60s in North America because people were pretty liberal and open minded.

fair enough

Ancient Rome or Greece would be cool if you were a citizen and didn't have to be in the army.

True

The 1750s/1760s/1770s in Scotland. The time of the Scottish Enlightenment, where mankind crawled out of the fog of superstition and Hume and Smith shaped the modern world. Everyone, rich and poor, met together in coffee houses to put the world to rights. It was fantastically dynamic. The New Town was being built in Edinburgh, one of the finest concentrations of architechtural splendour in Europe. It's the world of James Boswell's journals, which I cannot recommend enough to anyone. I wrote my dissertation on him, and he is my hero (despite his alcoholism, womanising etc, or perhaps because of it. He knobbed Rousseau's mistress).

Edinburgh was the Athens to London's Rome. Very special.

The 1930s in Catalonia or Aragon would be cool.

Also, maybe the 60s, people were pretty cool back then.

1930s Spain? Wasn't that the time period they had the revolution?

AH! You read my mind! I hope none of "them" are reading this forum, for if "they" are... "they"'ll know I'm onto "them"!

I think I've watched one too many Stargate SG-1/X-Files episodes... :D

No! Not the Goa' Uld! If that's even how you spell that. My mom watches Stargate (both series) a whole lot more than I do.

62 on May 22nd. :) By the way what happens to my status when I go over 1,000 posts? I guess I'm about to find out.

Damn, I turned from Gaming Master to pimp. Well, at my age maybe bieng a pimp isn't all that bad. :D

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sniper

I would LOVE to be in the World War II era. :sniper:

The era where Ancient Greece peaked.

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sniper

I would LOVE to be in the World War II era. :sniper:

...why??

No! Not the Goa' Uld! If that's even how you spell that. My mom watches Stargate (both series) a whole lot more than I do.

Goa'uld is the correct spelling. :D

I'm such a geek. I even know some Goa'uld!

On an aside, I have noticed that the History Channel almost always seems to be doing something on World War II. At least they are whenever I find myself watching it.

On an aside, I have noticed that the History Channel almost always seems to be doing something on World War II. At least they are whenever I find myself watching it.

thats a good thing in my veiw.
i cant stand those ignorant people who mok the second world war.

I'm such a geek.

You aren't alone. ;)

Goa'uld is the correct spelling. :D

I'm such a geek. I even know some Goa'uld!

now stargate is a good tv show...star treck however i just can not stand

the era before any major civilization started, the imperial ages in an asian country, or any native north american country, at any time before the spanish and british invaded.

1930s Spain? Wasn't that the time period they had the revolution?
Yes, being an Anarcho-Syndicalist, it would be brilliant to be part of that. You work in a factory, but there's no boss, you control your own destiny. You can join the FAI and fight against the Fascists.

Yes, being an Anarcho-Syndicalist, it would be brilliant to be part of that. You work in a factory, but there's no boss, you control your own destiny. You can join the FAI and fight against the Fascists.

what? but the fascists are a good thing!

what? but the fascists are a good thing!
And we need to fight the backstabbing Commies, who just fronted for Stalin. :rolleyes:

now stargate is a good tv show...star treck however i just can not stand
Yeah, Star Trek is LAME! (IMNSHO, that is)

Yeah, Star Trek is LAME! (IMNSHO, that is)



IMNSHO ??

Not to sound too ignorant of history, but what does FAI stand for?

Not to sound too ignorant of history, but what does FAI stand for?

i am not to sure i know either..it really isnt my "area" as a student

IMNSHO ??
(I might have made it up. :D Stands for In My Not So Humble Opinion)

i am not to sure i know either..it really isnt my "area" as a student

That's alright.

That's alright.

now the second world war (especially the british bits) is my area..or so i say

Not to sound too ignorant of history, but what does FAI stand for?
I believe it stands for Federacion Anarquista Iberia. (Or something really similar)

It was an organization and militia started to combat the fact that the CNT (Confederacion National de Trabaujo - The main Anarchist trade union at the time) leaders were moving away from the views of the rank and file members, and to remind them to stay true to anarchist principles.

I believe it stands for Federacion Anarquista Iberia. (Or something really similar)

It was an organization and militia started to combat the fact that the CNT (Confederacion National de Trabaujo - The main Anarchist trade union at the time) leaders were moving away from the views of the rank and file members, and to remind them to stay true to anarchist principles.

Works for me.

I'd say 1930s Spain so I could fight for anarchism, though I'm not sure it would do much good since they lost, anyway.

Anytime really as long as i was rich and powerful

I'd say 1930s Spain so I could fight for anarchism, though I'm not sure it would do much good since they lost, anyway.

its ok there spanish

Anytime really as long as i was rich and powerful

:D

Abother era?
I'm not sure that I'd want to at all. Even if I did, I cannot think of any era that I would enjoy living in.

Well, it was a pleasure doing business with all of you, but I should find other ways to entertain myself.

Abother era?
I'm not sure that I'd want to at all. Even if I did, I cannot think of any era that I would enjoy living in.


I come on, you can't tell me that it wouldn't kick all ass to see the Ramones LIVE in '78.

I come on, you can't tell me that it wouldn't kick all ass to see the Ramones LIVE in '78.
Ya know, now that I think of it, being around for the rise of punk would have been awesome.

Okay, that's my pick there.

I think I would like to live in the 1920's - The Roaring 20's. Seems like a wild time - speakeasys (sp - ies), gangsters, flappers, The Jazz Age - just an interesting time of - nonsense, wild times, and great music.

Ah yes, the Roaring Twenties.

hmmm... if I knew then what I know now... When I was born is the perfect time... and i'll convince my parents to put my allowance into Microsoft stock... hehehehehehehehe

Ya know, now that I think of it, being around for the rise of punk would have been awesome.

Okay, that's my pick there.

No it wasn't. I was 14 in 1976. I lived in West London. Punk was just another collection of dweebs doing what they thought was great. Me. I still had to worry about exams, then about money and girlfriends etc. No magic. I went along Kings Road, I saw the punks, the scandals in the press etc. They were just kids like me, only a bit older.

All eras in the recent past seem to be much more exciting that the current one to teenagers. For me, the magical era would have been 1965 - 1972, but looking at what Eutrusca and Celtlund have had to say, it sounds no more exciting than the late 70s early 80s.

When would I like to have lived. I would loved to have been a student of Plato or Aristotle, so 365 BC woud do.

No it wasn't. I was 14 in 1976. I lived in West London. Punk was just another collection of dweebs doing what they thought was great. Me. I still had to worry about exams, then about money and girlfriends etc. No magic. I went along Kings Road, I saw the punks, the scandals in the press etc. They were just kids like me, only a bit older.

All eras in the recent past seem to be much more exciting that the current one to teenagers. For me, the magical era would have been 1965 - 1972, but looking at what Eutrusca and Celtlund have had to say, it sounds no more exciting than the late 70s early 80s.

When would I like to have lived. I would loved to have been a student of Plato or Aristotle, so 365 BC woud do.


That's right, they were just kids like you. But they were extremely pissed (the Sex Pistols), and they vented through their music. Of course, as with any scene, there were the posers (the dorks who stayed on Kings Road), but that's not the point of it.

It was a genuine raucous scene, one that was quite possibly the most important in Rock 'n' Roll history. You may have not participated in "the magic", but those who were remember it as the best time of their lives.

Napoleonic France or Soviet Russia (post-Stalin)

As a woman, anything before the age I grew up in would suck. Any female who thinks a previous age would be great to live in needs to have her head examined. Besides, I love my cable, computer, air conditioner and microwave.

There are plenty of times I'd like to visit, but I'd be happiest right now.

The crusades, especially the first one. To die for a spiritual cause would be glorious.

It's better to live for that cause, to be an example for others - It's very easy to die for a cause, it's very hard to live for one, to live up to one...

It's better to live for that cause, to be an example for others - It's very easy to die for a cause, it's very hard to live for one, to live up to one...

Yes, way too hard. I'd rather be gloriously dead.

That's right, they were just kids like you. But they were extremely pissed (the Sex Pistols), and they vented through their music. Of course, as with any scene, there were the posers (the dorks who stayed on Kings Road), but that's not the point of it.

It was a genuine raucous scene, one that was quite possibly the most important in Rock 'n' Roll history. You may have not participated in "the magic", but those who were remember it as the best time of their lives.

Like you would know huh. You were there along with the rest of us. Would you mind telling us which post you are trying to mislead us with. The one quoted here or this one (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8417136&postcount=99)

The punk rock movement in the UK was actually much more a media feeding frenzy than any great revolution in music. It may have been different around CBGBs in New York. I don't know, I wasn't there. In London, however, punk rockers were mostly upper middle class kids who were bored. No great social revolution or redirection of music. Just a few posers and a fashion press looking for something different. If you want to go back to that time that is your perogative. I lived through it, and it really was not that exciting.

I'd love to live in early 17th Century Wales or Spain, and if I could bring my computer along too, then that would just be a bonus:D

Like you would know huh. You were there along with the rest of us. Would you mind telling us which post you are trying to mislead us with. The one quoted here or this one (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8417136&postcount=99)

The punk rock movement in the UK was actually much more a media feeding frenzy than any great revolution in music. It may have been different around CBGBs in New York. I don't know, I wasn't there. In London, however, punk rockers were mostly upper middle class kids who were bored. No great social revolution or redirection of music. Just a few posers and a fashion press looking for something different. If you want to go back to that time that is your perogative. I lived through it, and it really was not that exciting.


Just because I wasn't born yet doesn't mean that I can't read about the subject. And yes, I've read a lot about it, and I've had to read Malcolm's bullshit all too much.

Yeah, it was a big media feeding frenzy, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't a genuine musical movement. The Sex Pistols were dirt-poor (which is why they had to wear clothes from Malcolm's shop), except for Glen Matlock, but he was a bum who never worked. Of course, a lot of the bands were just getting on the Sex Pistols bandwagon, and yes, I will admit that most were upper-middle-classmen who were bored (The Clash, The Damned, the Buzzcocks, just to name a few). But it's because these "kids" were bored that we got some of the best Rock 'n' Roll ever. That's what musical movements are.

But it was the Sex Pistols who were at the forefront. They wrote about what was going on at the time, how pissed off they were, and how things should be. That's the band I'd really like to go back and see, because they were the only band that mattered. Not The Clash. The Sex Pistols were Punk Rock.

However, you speak of the era just like the "old farts" did back then. The people who wanted their precious Pub Rock to stay on top. Those who were afraid of change. Those who said they had no talent. Those who said that it was boring.

How can you even have any say in this when you brush it off as just "boring"? If something's not to your liking, then it's just that. It doesn't mean that it's worthless to others.

I'd like to live in a more simpler time. Away from the ravages and viciousness of politics.

So I'd probably like to live in one of the two: Western Expansion (USA), or Samurai Era (Japan).

do the 1960s count as another era? if so i'd love to be a hippie and go to Woodstock :)

HELL YES. :D

Just because I wasn't born yet doesn't mean that I can't read about the subject. And yes, I've read a lot about it, and I've had to read Malcolm's bullshit all too much.

Yeah, it was a big media feeding frenzy, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't a genuine musical movement. The Sex Pistols were dirt-poor (which is why they had to wear clothes from Malcolm's shop), except for Glen Matlock, but he was a bum who never worked. Of course, a lot of the bands were just getting on the Sex Pistols bandwagon, and yes, I will admit that most were upper-middle-classmen who were bored (The Clash, The Damned, the Buzzcocks, just to name a few). But it's because these "kids" were bored that we got some of the best Rock 'n' Roll ever. That's what musical movements are.

But it was the Sex Pistols who were at the forefront. They wrote about what was going on at the time, how pissed off they were, and how things should be. That's the band I'd really like to go back and see, because they were the only band that mattered. Not The Clash. The Sex Pistols were Punk Rock.

However, you speak of the era just like the "old farts" did back then. The people who wanted their precious Pub Rock to stay on top. Those who were afraid of change. Those who said they had no talent. Those who said that it was boring.

How can you even have any say in this when you brush it off as just "boring"? If something's not to your liking, then it's just that. It doesn't mean that it's worthless to others.

To be honest, most of it was boring. I was never a fan of "pub rock", I was into Hawkwind and then Motorhead etc. Not exactly pub rock. The problem with punk was that it was all about a false attitude. Now if the attitude had been genuine, then maybe it would have gained some more respect from the majority of people at the time. But it was so blatently publicity seeking, that we simply could not have cared less about it. Oh, some of the stunts were funny. The gig by the Pistols on the boat. The ripping of of A&M etc.

The other point is that for every punk rock band that you have ever heard of there were twenty more who never got beyond playing the one night at the local pub. Pub rock became punk rock.

I have no problem with people wanting to keep alive the "spirit" of punk, but I would strongly advise those with this ideal to avoid the late seventies in London as it would severely test their beliefs. That is all I was saying.

Britian, in the time of King Arthur... But Ancient Rome works as well, but not in Rome, I'd like to live in Palmero, Sicily.

I'd want to live on the date of April 5th, 2063 at precisely 10 PM! So I can celebrate First Contact Day!

I would like to live in the time Chuck Yeger broke the sound barrier in the X-1 aircraft. That would've been awesome to see. I would also like to live in Howard Hughes time.

The 1750s/1760s/1770s in Scotland. The time of the Scottish Enlightenment, where mankind crawled out of the fog of superstition and Hume and Smith shaped the modern world. Everyone, rich and poor, met together in coffee houses to put the world to rights. It was fantastically dynamic. The New Town was being built in Edinburgh, one of the finest concentrations of architechtural splendour in Europe. It's the world of James Boswell's journals, which I cannot recommend enough to anyone. I wrote my dissertation on him, and he is my hero (despite his alcoholism, womanising etc, or perhaps because of it. He knobbed Rousseau's mistress).

Edinburgh was the Athens to London's Rome. Very special.

I have read a lot of Boswell and found it fascinateing.
If you knew about Ragusa, you'd want to live there, they were the first place on earth to make slavery AND the trade in slaves illegal. They did so for the absolute most idealistic reasons. This occured in 1417. The law required that anyone who traded in slaves had to go buy them back and free them, and if this didn''t happen the slave dealer could be fined a sum that in today's currency would be thousands of pounds and he could be hung too!
The neat thing about the era of the Scottish Enlightenment was that they began to realize things that were old news in Ragusa by then, that slavery for example is a bad thing, that people have rights, and that the ruleing classes have duties.
I think if I'd lived in the British Isles at that era I would have prefered Edinburgh to any place at all in England, even London.
To the person who wanted to live in 30s Cataluna, that was an interesting era, the Spanish Civil War right?

Carthage during the 300s' B.C.E.

I would like to be one of the ruling families...

And then I could conquer new lands, sail to the equator(the Carthaginians were the first to do that, y'know), set up new colonies, destroy a few pirate ships, and amass a HUGE fortune.

Ahhh...wouldn't that be lovely.

As a woman, anything before the age I grew up in would suck. Any female who thinks a previous age would be great to live in needs to have her head examined. Besides, I love my cable, computer, air conditioner and microwave.

I would tend to agree with BK. I am a strong-willed, independent free spirit that enjoys sex and likes to speak her mind without being burnt at the stake or some other such nonsense.

Besides, if I really want to "visit" another era, I can always RP.

I would tend to agree with BK. I am a strong-willed, independent free spirit that enjoys sex and likes to speak her mind without being burnt at the stake or some other such nonsense.

Besides, if I really want to "visit" another era, I can always RP.

You guys(or girls, to be more precise) don't know much about ancient India, do yas?

You guys(or girls, to be more precise) don't know much about ancient India, do yas?

Well, like I said, I can just RP somewhere. I realise that some women in history were... talented enough to be who they were without repercussions. But I still prefer here and now.

Besides, I wouldn't have had to opportunity to exchange ideas like this with you in ancient India. ;)

The 1980's.
I was just a kid then and i barely missed some great stuff, music included (Dire Straits, Europe&Co).
Plus i like the general style of the decade.

Otherwise ancient Athens during the republican period, those who were'nt slaves got more freedom even that today.

The Napoleonic period always seemed like my kind of period. It suits my character a whole lot better than the 21st century does...

I should have been a Viking warrior! Raids along the Normandy Coast, manning the long-boat helm as we return home, the feast and party that night when we get back with all the booty, great slabs of roast beast, massive tankards of mead, and those Viking warrior-women! Oh yeah! :D

...what era would it be and why?

I think I have posted here before but it was a long time ago. I'll do it again...It's a Sunday, nothing to do.


930 A.D. - Because I want to meet some of my forfathers. Iceland

Late 11 th Century Early 12 th Century- Want to meet the Celtic legends and see and take part in the battles they fought i.e. Bannockburn, Stirling, York etc. Wallace, the Bruce, Murray etc. NO not because of Braveheart! I knew this history before that film came out! Scotland

Late 18 th Century - Be a plantation owner in South Carolina or North Carolina and see what the American war for Independance was like. U.S.A.

Mid 19th Century America, Civil War era. Have a big interest in this history. U.S.A. and C.S.A.

The future... then I'll pull a Woody Allen (Ref. Sleepers) and just really screw up history... :D

"why Nationstates was a training tool that I developed to help train future world leaders... however, since the UN didn't wanna admit that my solution was better, they sent their assination squad, Al-quida to assinate me. Using the cryogenic research secretly developed by the Mexicans, I hid... only to emerge here and now.... my name? I used the pen name "Max Berry" (cuz I like Fruits) to create 'Nationstates"