Inside the LEM with Neil and Buzz, touching down at Tranquility Base.
It was cool on TV and all, but to be there? Wow.
Jesus saves… Gretzky grabs the rebound… He Scores!
Ursa Major wrote:
A shower? Pah. I wanna see her get it on with Kennedy in the Lincoln Bedroom.
On the fun side…I would have liked to have been around Elvis the last hour of his life…has he really left the building or is he still there???
On the serious side…I would have like to experience the Titanic…well…not actually drowning or anything…but everything from the launch to the sinking…of course I would stay warm and dry the whole time…but only because somebody already took my Kennedy idea.
“Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda
Fun for me!
10/17/89-Loma Prieta Eartquake, Candlestick Park. My half brother was there.
Game 7 of the 1962 (?) World Series. Yeah, we lost, but MAN, what a game.
I would’ve like to watch the moon landing, but I’m too young.
Maybe Opening Day of A New Hope.
JMcC, San Francisco, JJM’s page from the Bay
If I were beaned with a fastball, fling my limp, lifeless body to first, cause, dammit, I earned it!
Ursa Major said:
Not in the slightest. I’ve always believed it was just Oswald (though possibly with the spirit of John Wilkes Booth assisting him; listen to the sound track of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins if you don’t get the reference).
And whether it was Oswald, the CIA, the Mafia, the Cubans, or Elvis Presley after having faked his own death and fallen through a time warp, I really wouldn’t care. Just to be able to take one of the most talked about, endlessly discussed, forever stated as “we’ll never really know” events and say, “Here’s your proof!”
But as I said, not that anyone would ever actually believe me.
JMCJ
“John C., it looks like you have blended in very nicely.”
-UncleBeer
I’ve never really watched a significant historical moment live in person and I’ve thought about what it meant to my Dad’s perspective on life to have witnessed the Pearl Harbor attack (he became an anthropologist after the war, specializing in Japanese religion).
Accepting that my personal experience doesn’t necessarily need to include the most significant moment in human history, what would I do with my ringside ticket to the moment of choice?
Would I go for the sound and the fury? A-bomb @ Hiroshima comes to mind, or maybe something you could watch up a little closer, like the Hindenburg crash…
Solve a mystery? In the bushes at OJ’s ex’s murder, scope the JFK assassination (as suggested above) or find out who killed the Black Dahlia; hmmm…
Perhaps observe a truly significant debate where the minds of our century met and decisions were taken that affected the recent course of history? Lots of opportunities there, but as an observer only…well, no.
I think I would like to have had the opportunity to be amongst the first wave of occupation troops (high ranking G-2, of course) to hit Japan after the cessation of hostilities.
PS
Boris - how long until they got a “hit” do you suppose?
Toss up between Moon landing and 1st nuclear explosion.
Hmmm…I’d say the Invasion of Normandy on D-Day.
“What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?” --W.C. Fields
I would have liked to have been there when Rosa Parks stood up for herself on that bus. Yeah Rosa!
Both of my parents were/are hippies, and sometimes when they talk about stuff they did, I feel cheated. Things happened in the 60’s that were so important to my parents that those events have really shaped their lives. I mean, my dad can still get worked into a froth over Vietnam. So I guess I would like to hang out in Berkeley in 1967.
Also, a hundred baseball things. Mostly, I wish I’d gotten to see Willie Mays play.
~Kyla
“You couldn’t fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine.”
A fun one: I’d like to be in the room when Siegel and Shuster created Superman.
Kennedy? OJ? Black Dahlia?
Bah! I would like to be there during the last night of Lupe Velez. I promise that I wouldn’t do a thing to affect the outcome, I just wanna see it happen.
Waste
Flick Lives!
On the escape route with D. B. Cooper. Did he commit the perfect crime, or did he die trying?
The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik
Any of Jimis’ concerts
If it was an option I’d much rather go forward 100 years, but since it’s not I’d have to pick hanging out with Janice Joplin while she hitchhiked her way around Brazil.
Feeling good was good enough for me – Janice
Oh, goodness, GLWasteful, I already had this fight with Ike—Lupe Velez DID NOT DROWN IN HER TOILET! It is physically impossible, and just another hare-brained story made up by that bitter old queen Kenneth Anger.
Oh, and Ike—don’t get Finney with me . . . “Parents never meeting . . .”
Yeah! Lupe Velez is actually alive and well, and living in Argentina!
– Uke, firing up the popcorn maker and dusting off the old video of INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME
May 24, 1941–the sinking of the HMS Hood.
Watching the construction of the Meadowlands complex to see exactly where Jimmy Hoffa is interred.
In the end zone on the west end, right below section 107, a little to the right of the “S” in “Giants.” Glad to be of help.
Jesus saves… Gretzky grabs the rebound… He Scores!