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Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 4:43 pm
by Rowls
Inspired by the "Dropped off for 24 hours" thread.
You are invited into the Tardis by Dr Who and are allowed to go back in time for 24 hours. The only rule is - it has to be before you are born.
Where are you going to go and what will you do there?
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 4:58 pm
by Burnley1989
Can you go back and prevent an event from happening, become a hero?
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:00 pm
by Dyched
I’d be the chief briefcase manager of Claus von Stauffenberg
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:02 pm
by bfcjg
I'd like to watch the D Day invasions, possibly one of the most defining time of recent history. I .
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:02 pm
by ŽižkovClaret
I'd ensure a certain Herr A Hitler got into Art School
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:03 pm
by ClaretTony
Rowls wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 4:43 pm
Inspired by the "Dropped off for 24 hours" thread.
You are invited into the Tardis by Dr Who and are allowed to go back in time for 24 hours. The only rule is - it has to be before you are born.
Where are you going to go and what will you do there?
I’ll have a day at Crystal Palace on 25th April 1914.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:13 pm
by Bosscat
ClaretTony wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:03 pm
I’ll have a day at Crystal Palace on 25th April 1914.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:16 pm
by Rowls
Burnley1989 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 4:58 pm
Can you go back and prevent an event from happening, become a hero?
Yeah, sure. We'll put the modern day Dr Who in charge so anything goes.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:17 pm
by Rowls
Have to confess that a trip to the Crystal Palace was high on my mind.
But I'd also like to share a cuppa tea with Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot).
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:19 pm
by Claret Till I Die
2nd October 1965 & a day in Belfast
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:26 pm
by Bow
CBS studio 50, NYC, February 9, 1964
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 6:36 pm
by Stonehouse
Germany and stop Adolph Hitler’s mother and father meeting.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 7:01 pm
by dougcollins
I'd like to see exactly what did for the dinosaurs.
I just don't find some of the explanations plausible.
Though I accept that would be longer than a day. Or perhaps it wasn't.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 7:18 pm
by Grimsdale
dougcollins wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 7:01 pm
I'd like to see exactly what did for the dinosaurs.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 7:19 pm
by Bosscat
dougcollins wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 7:01 pm
I'd like to see exactly what did for the dinosaurs.
I just don't find some of the explanations plausible.
Though I accept that would be longer than a day. Or perhaps it wasn't.
Not sure you would want to be at "ground zero" when the asteroid hit though
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 7:54 pm
by Bow
Stonehouse wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 6:36 pm
Germany and stop Adolph Hitler’s mother and father meeting.
You’d be in the wrong country but I admire the sentiment
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 8:00 pm
by gandhisflipflop
The problem is if you stop something from happening, you would end up creating a new timeline where something worse could happen later on down that timeline by proxy. The butterfly effect if you will or am I thinking way too much about this?
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 10:10 pm
by Wokingclaret
gandhisflipflop wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 8:00 pm
The problem is if you stop something from happening, you would end up creating a new timeline where something worse could happen later on down that timeline by proxy. The butterfly effect if you will or am I thinking way too much about this?
Yes, altering the time line continuum. You may not exist when you come back as your father met someone else 🥹
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 10:13 pm
by Wokingclaret
ClaretTony wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:03 pm
I’ll have a day at Crystal Palace on 25th April 1914.
Imagine the match report with the usual travel details
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 10:18 pm
by boatshed bill
i'd like to have shot Oppenheimer when he was quite young.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 10:26 pm
by ClaretTony
Wokingclaret wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 10:13 pm
Imagine the match report with the usual travel details
I couldn’t come close to writing a report anything like the one published in the Burnley Express
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 11:47 pm
by dsr
WG Grace's 100th century, Bristol, May 17th 1895.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 2:06 am
by Andingle
Maine Road , Manchester.
2nd May 1960
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 2:58 am
by Quicknick
Blackburn away in 1920/21. Did we play them thats eason, though?
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 7:05 am
by AlargeClaret
Cannae 216 bc for me , to witness one of the most “ impressive “ military victories in history , where Hannibal with inferior numbers defeated a far superior Roman infantry with brilliant tactics and the most devastating pincer movement in history . The ensuing slaughter of 50,000 of Rome’s finest almost put paid to the budding Empire .
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 7:43 am
by CaptJohn
14th October 1066: Battle of Hastings.
I've always been interested in this event and have visited the famous tapestry in Bayeux depicting it.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 8:05 am
by LoveCurryPies
I’d go back and buy a few Van Gogh’s.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 2:34 pm
by Dazzler
Back to the beginning of time and have a chat with our creator.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 2:55 pm
by Silkyskills1
Andingle wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 2:06 am
Maine Road , Manchester.
2nd May 1960
My brother did attend this game along with his school friend at the time aka on here as'Frenchclaret'.
I think I would have enjoyed 24 hours in Egypt witnessing exactly how they built the pyramids.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 4:00 pm
by burnley007
The Cavern, Liverpool, very early 60s.
(On a night when the Beatles were playing, obvs) (Would be nice if Cilla was supporting too, cracking voice back then)
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 6:38 pm
by dougcollins
Bosscat wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 7:19 pm
Not sure you would want to be at "ground zero" when the asteroid hit though
I'm assuming for the sake of the exercise you experience it from a totally protected micro environment?
Rowls will know, he's made up the rules.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 8:11 pm
by Billyblah
Bow wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:26 pm
CBS studio 50, NYC, February 9, 1964
So this is The Beatles appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show which is a good call. Or how about 17th August 1962 with Ringo Starr making his Beatles debut at Port Sunlight Village Hall...or one of those early Cavern Club gigs.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 8:16 pm
by Rowls
dougcollins wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 6:38 pm
I'm assuming for the sake of the exercise you experience it from a totally protected micro environment?
Rowls will know, he's made up the rules.
Correct. I'll let you know when you get back.
IF you get back.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 8:41 pm
by Tricky Trevor
May 7th 1921.
Home draw with Sunderland, 2-2 after a 65th minute Bob Kelly equaliser.
Let the party begin. Champions of England for the first time.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 9:21 am
by Clovius Boofus
Go back to 2500 B.C and learn about our Neolithic ancestors belief system in regard to their megaliths and stone circles.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 9:26 am
by Rileybobs
Going back to watch a battle seems a bit odd. Are you just going to find a good vantage point and watch thousands of people slay each other? Each to their own.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 9:29 am
by nig1954
Maybe you’re too young to remember that particular moment
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 10:31 am
by Bosscat
nig1954 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 22, 2024 9:29 am
Maybe you’re too young to remember that particular moment
https://youtu.be/4t6AqfnYMNM?si=Pcj4cyuq_eiwvx7J
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 10:57 am
by clarets1978
Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 8:41 pm
May 7th 1921.
Home draw with Sunderland, 2-2 after a 65th minute Bob Kelly equaliser.
Let the party begin. Champions of England for the first time.
I randomly got the programme for this for £5 on ebay a couple of years ago. It wasnt in great condition however for what it was, it was a complete steal. Sold it on for over £100 (I actually took pictures of the programme because I knew I'd never see it again). In the programme notes it actually said we were getting the trophy after the match so we must have clinched it before that game.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 11:27 am
by Herts Clarets
Back to Essex in early 1932 and insist that Mr Bond wears a condom that evening.......
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 11:48 am
by RMutt
Looks like people are adding a place to a time. So in that spirit, I’d go back and scupper the work of the early pioneers of the WWW. It was supposed to be such a liberating tool but I think ultimately the internet will be the death of us all. And, yes, obviously I know I’m on it now, but on balance I think the world would be a better place without it.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 12:09 pm
by TPClaret
Too when Christmas didn’t start in October
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 12:11 pm
by Tricky Trevor
clarets1978 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 22, 2024 10:57 am
I randomly got the programme for this for £5 on ebay a couple of years ago. It wasnt in great condition however for what it was, it was a complete steal. Sold it on for over £100 (I actually took pictures of the programme because I knew I'd never see it again). In the programme notes it actually said we were getting the trophy after the match so we must have clinched it before that game.
I’d been going to ask on a new thread when we officially won it? We won by 5 points, at a time of 2pts for the win, but only took 1pt from our last 2 games.
Somebody on here will know.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 12:40 pm
by RMutt
Always read through the question thoroughly and to the end. I’ve just realised I’ve answered incorrectly as the WWW was invented way after I was born.
Sorry.
Now I’m going to cheat by staying with my answer.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2024 11:38 am
by clarets1978
Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑Fri Nov 22, 2024 12:11 pm
I’d been going to ask on a new thread when we officially won it? We won by 5 points, at a time of 2pts for the win, but only took 1pt from our last 2 games.
Somebody on here will know.
The programme notes talk about being disappointed to only draw at home to Everton in the home game before because we ere looking to catch West Broms points record?
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2024 1:13 pm
by dsr
Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 8:41 pm
May 7th 1921.
Home draw with Sunderland, 2-2 after a 65th minute Bob Kelly equaliser.
Let the party begin. Champions of England for the first time.
That was the last game of the season. It was the draw at Everton on 23rd April that clinched the title - before that we were 8 points clear of Liverpool in second who had 4 games left (but a much worse goal average).
https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/lea ... pril-1921/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920%E2%8 ... 20lost%206.
Re: Taken Back in Time for a Day?
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2024 1:56 pm
by houseboy
Stonehouse wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 6:36 pm
Germany and stop Adolph Hitler’s mother and father meeting.
A lot of people would choose this but on the basis of dangerously changing history if the second world war hadn’t happened, considering how many died on all sides, we would now be facing a massive over population crisis in all probability. If neither world wars had happened we definitely would.
