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Of all that is listed on the poll what would you want to do if you could go back in time in RL. If you could 100% be what you voted for that is.

This poll is REALLY bad but I'm tired and don't have the time to be creative with the poll. Pick, you get the idea.

Definately a knight...from Camelot would be sweet.

Cardinal from Catholic Church circa 1300. Good life, all the corruption you want. Guarenteed entrance to heaven.

That's easy: Pirate.

Wins every time.

Man, I'd totally be a politician. I mean, come on, we get nice cushy seats while the soldiers are dying of starvation/disease/metallic objects. Plus there's a bigger chance that people will know your name in the future.

I can just see it now... ::Stars in eyes, etc.::

Kick-ass Roman General. School that SOB Spartacus right off and make them slaves "respect mah authoitah!"

Professional race car driver in the fifties and sixties (and into the seventies) with people like Graham Hill, Phil Hill, Jackie Ickx, Jackie Stewart, Pedro Rodriguiz, Jim Clark, Sterling Moss, Juan Manuel Fangio and thier ilk-when advances in power leaped ahead of the cars ability to handle that much power. When cars that didn't seem like they had any business being on the track together raced competitively (minis against vettes and porsches). That odd place between the 'gentleman racer' and the corporate racer, where drivers ran F1, Le Mans, rallies...When Chapman changed the face of racing every other time he showed up with a car, when Ferrari and Porsche started challenging old school Mercedes.

But, uh, not the part where they kept dying because the cars are super fast while not super safe (like in 1955 when a wrecked Mercedes took out fifty some spectators at Le Mans) But if we're fantasizing...

I'd be a slave-liberating pirate bard.

Kick-ass Roman General. School that SOB Spartacus right off and make them slaves "respect mah authoitah!"
I think I'd be more interested in being Spartacus. In fact...


I AM SPARTACUS!!!

ahem...sorry

Yarr, mateys!

I think I'd be more interested in being Spartacus. In fact...


I AM SPARTACUS!!!

ahem...sorry
And be crvcified? That blows?

A Roman General, agreeing with whoever said that.

And be crvcified? That blows?
Nah, I'm sure I'd do better...f-for no particular reason...

:D

a hermit:)

but seriously, id want to be in one of the expansionist/exploratory time periods, so i could live on the fringes of civilization, by myself somewhere, in a cave. hunt/gather, garden, eventually die of some lame-ass infection or something

It's good to be the King.

I know a little too much to want to get involved in warfare. It's seldom glamorous, and usually involves discomfort, boredom and moments of terror. Not to mention the problems of disease, and lack of anaesthetic in most of the periods offered by the poll.

On the other hand, I'd wouldn't want to be a hypocrite such as a politician. Contemptible people, they are. And farmers throughout history have fallen victim to invaders...

If you'd offered a WWII airman, instead of 'soldier', perhaps that would have got my vote, although 55,000 British dead in Bomber Command alone show that this was in no way an enviable job.

Wouldn't it be better to be in the exploratory times and tell Columbus that he's going the wrong way and take America for your self? But they'd probably do you for wichcraft.

Or just be a ruch noble-man and fund his journey, then you would get America anyways.

Unless he actually realised that he was going the wrong way...India's a bit too warm for me.

well obviously

Professional race car driver in the fifties and sixties (and into the seventies) with people like Graham Hill, Phil Hill, Jackie Ickx, Jackie Stewart, Pedro Rodriguiz, Jim Clark, Sterling Moss, Juan Manuel Fangio and thier ilk-when advances in power leaped ahead of the cars ability to handle that much power. When cars that didn't seem like they had any business being on the track together raced competitively (minis against vettes and porsches). That odd place between the 'gentleman racer' and the corporate racer, where drivers ran F1, Le Mans, rallies...When Chapman changed the face of racing every other time he showed up with a car, when Ferrari and Porsche started challenging old school Mercedes.

But, uh, not the part where they kept dying because the cars are super fast while not super safe (like in 1955 when a wrecked Mercedes took out fifty some spectators at Le Mans) But if we're fantasizing...

I like your thinking, I always wanted to race at Le Mans.

I like your thinking, I always wanted to race at Le Mans.
Wouldn't that rock? Especially back in the 'Bentley Brothers' days when it was just two drivers? Oh man.

Two (maybe three) years ago they filmed a (new) movie at Le Mans, but it has yet to come out, and that disappoints me. I love the old Steve McQueen one.

Wouldn't it be better to be in the exploratory times and tell Columbus that he's going the wrong way and take America for your self? But they'd probably do you for wichcraft.

Or just be a ruch noble-man and fund his journey, then you would get America anyways.

Unless he actually realised that he was going the wrong way...India's a bit too warm for me.
I feel a strange kinship with you...I wonder why...

Wouldn't that rock? Especially back in the 'Bentley Brothers' days when it was just two drivers? Oh man.

Two (maybe three) years ago they filmed a (new) movie at Le Mans, but it has yet to come out, and that disappoints me. I love the old Steve McQueen one.

I've the Steve McQueen Le Mans on DVD & was watching it just the other day. Those cars look like evil-handling monsters.

I've the Steve McQueen Le Mans on DVD & was watching it just the other day. Those cars look like evil-handling monsters.
I'm obsessed (slightly) with Pedro Rodriguiz who was able to go flat out in that car (the 917, consistantly voted the best race car ever). He was convinced it was the car, but no one else could get it to do what he did.

I think Ickx tells of doing film runs in the 917 for that movie and coming over a rise to find a cameraman laying on the track. He came back into the pits pissed as hell and went looking for Steve to complain about that camera guy, which everyone said "He went out to get a shot off the track..." Balls.

I dig the overhead shot where the cars come into the pits and the fans on top of the engines go from blur to stop in an instant.

At the Monterey Historics Porsche 50th Anniversery I got to hang out with a team that had one of the Gulf 917s and they where fixing a fuel flow problem like they where buds on a sunday afternoon working on a Nova. It was the greatest. (that and seeing the Sunoco/Penske 917/30 dig in and spit fire as it came out of Laguna Seca's Turn 8...)

At the Monterey Historics Porsche 50th Anniversery I got to hang out with a team that had one of the Gulf 917s and they where fixing a fuel flow problem like they where buds on a sunday afternoon working on a Nova. It was the greatest. (that and seeing the Sunoco/Penske 917/30 dig in and spit fire as it came out of Laguna Seca's Turn 8...)

That would've been sweet. You'd have to have some guts to take them through the corkscrew. Mid engine, plenty of mumbo, 30 year old chassis/suspension technology. Plenty of opportunity for hurt.

I love the shots in Le Mans where you can see the back ends twitching around & sliding out as they're putting the power down exiting the corners. That'd get the adrenaline going for sure, trying to get the right amount of opposite lock, but not overcorrecting.

That would've been sweet. You'd have to have some guts to take them through the corkscrew. Mid engine, plenty of mumbo, 30 year old chassis/suspension technology. Plenty of opportunity for hurt.

I love the shots in Le Mans where you can see the back ends twitching around & sliding out as they're putting the power down exiting the corners. That'd get the adrenaline going for sure, trying to get the right amount of opposite lock, but not overcorrecting.
One of the best parts was watching the pace car come over the hill of turn 8 and scramble down the corkscrew as fast as it could and then the rumble of the Can-Am cars barely containing themselves coming after it like they where going to eat the pace car. I got chills.

That door banging finale in Le Mans, shoving each other aside-extra sketchy when taking into account that they where doing 200+mph...oh momma. I wish I could have seen the actual Le Mans where Ickx walked to his car in protest at the traditional start and then won by only 100 yards. That would have been intense.

EDIT: It was Hurley Haywood driving the Sunoco car, right after he took a 914/6 from 10th to 1st in ten laps against Cobras, Vettes, and a 911 that had led all the way to the last second when Haywood took him right before the start finish. As a former 914 owner, it did my heart good to see it.

914/6 - does that denote a flat six version? I don't think the 914 was sold in Aus. I've seen very few of them, only at Porsche gatherings or car clubs.

Those Can-Am cars were total monsters, 1000+HP evolutions of the 917 & massive V8 powered beasts. I saw the Chaparrel (sp?) while I was looking through GT4 the other day, but haven't got the car. Any idea what it's like?

The village wise-woman/healer - provided I didn't find myself in a time or place where witches and heretics were tortured and killed, of course.

A steppe nomad, circa ~9000 BC.