If time travel was doable...
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ChaosCossack
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Looks like we'd be going head to head then Paul 
I think it would be overwhelming to be on either side of a cavalry charge... whether on horseback or being the poor infantryman, the prospect of that impact from either side would be terrifying.
Likewise, hearing an 80 or 100 gun battery of 12 pounders unleashing their first salvo must have been mind numbing. Then waiting for the solid shot to land... well that's just crap-your-pants scary.
Takes a lot of balls to stand through that... a lot of balls indeed.
Colin
I think it would be overwhelming to be on either side of a cavalry charge... whether on horseback or being the poor infantryman, the prospect of that impact from either side would be terrifying.
Likewise, hearing an 80 or 100 gun battery of 12 pounders unleashing their first salvo must have been mind numbing. Then waiting for the solid shot to land... well that's just crap-your-pants scary.
Takes a lot of balls to stand through that... a lot of balls indeed.
Colin
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Back in the late 70's when I was 16 I volunteered to assist with the National Army museum's childrens club (it was run by the museums education dept). The Sealed Knot (the ECW reenactment society) each year would bring along its field cannon and let it off in the car park, to my knowledge the blank charge alerted all the local emergency services, deafened 20 children, made passing cars swerve to the kerbside and prompted 5 Chelsea pensioners to wring out they're underpants - fond memories of a well spent youth
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garyhiggins
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I would like to go back to Sherwood Forest and Barnsdale to see if I could find a REAL Robin Hood. Preferably not Kevin Castner!!!
Best wishes, Gary.
Best wishes, Gary.
DEL
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Del pushed me into it, I was up for a quiet walk down Regent Street
...... and if he had another pair of legs he'd open up in the Strand .......
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garyhiggins
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The mind boggles!!!!!!!There is only so much I can do in one day without a large tub of vaseline and not disturbing the space time continuum.
Seriously though, great thread, when we've all had our fill of history, can we go forward to see what mistakes we're going to make?
ChaosCossack
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For Robin Hood, I did like Russell
Crowe's version of the Sherwood Robber and his band of rowdies. Of course my wife says I have some kind of man-crush on mr. Crowe so that might cloud my opinion. But what does she know?
Colin
Crowe's version of the Sherwood Robber and his band of rowdies. Of course my wife says I have some kind of man-crush on mr. Crowe so that might cloud my opinion. But what does she know?
Colin
BarrieHynd
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Welcome back, you're working the weekend.
Ah, but Carl, this way I would know how to dodge all those extra duties and also maybe stand a better chance 2nd time round with the bird in the beer bar
Barrie.
Ah, but Carl, this way I would know how to dodge all those extra duties and also maybe stand a better chance 2nd time round with the bird in the beer bar
Barrie.
Rich Sculpts
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The mind boggles!!!!!!!
Seriously though, great thread, when we've all had our fill of history, can we go forward to see what mistakes we're going to make?
Sound idea - could we flip this? I for one will gladly say goodbye to selling my body on the streets of Victorian London.
red tom
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Hyde Park London June 26th 1857 the first presentation of the Victoria Cross; Petrograd 1917; St Petersburg 1703.
Jamie Stokes
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It's a shame we couldn't go forward...... I'd go ahead till I found myself before I kicked, and ask how my life went......
I think that breaks the interfering with the space time continuum thing though.....
I think that breaks the interfering with the space time continuum thing though.....
garyhiggins
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Oh the fun you could have with this if you had a criminal mind, for instance, going into a police station and having a loud argument at the same time you're committing a robbery somewhere else.And don't even think about lottery numbers
.And don't even think about lottery numbers
tonydawe
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I'd like to be standing on the grassy knoll in Dallas November 22 1963.
Ferris
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Roswell was a stratospheric weather balloon, maybe more interesting to go to July 1969 at the studio were they filmed the "moon landing" :-P
Seriously, I'd skip over human history and like to witness what it was like let's say 100M years ago and see what colour dinosaurs had and how fast they actually were and all that National Geographic stuff.
Interesting thought....
Cheers,
Adrian
Seriously, I'd skip over human history and like to witness what it was like let's say 100M years ago and see what colour dinosaurs had and how fast they actually were and all that National Geographic stuff.
Interesting thought....
Cheers,
Adrian
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Blind Pew
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Exactly. I understand the Allied high command new this and thought that by keeping him around it would shorten the war.
Blind Pew
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I would have said Dealy Plaza as well, somewhere near the grassy knoll. A close tie with Roswell for me.
Maybe Hitler's bunker during that final day. A bit miserable though so.....
I'll put my name down for ...... VE day. That must have been absolutely unbelievable. To share in and have witnessed that kind of mass euphoria.
Maybe Hitler's bunker during that final day. A bit miserable though so.....
I'll put my name down for ...... VE day. That must have been absolutely unbelievable. To share in and have witnessed that kind of mass euphoria.
