# Time travel joke I heard that reminded me of the Dope **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-joke-i-heard-that-reminded-me-of-the-dope/688767 "2014-05-19T20:44:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-joke-i-heard-that-reminded-me-of-the-dope/688767/21 "2014-05-20T14:31:23Z")
OT: The joke reminds me of an old Omni story wherein a time traveler shows Newton a modern calculator and Newton freaks out. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-joke-i-heard-that-reminded-me-of-the-dope/688767/22 "2014-05-20T17:37:49Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I think Lennie would say it more like fuck-a-that. Ya know, kinda Italian-y. How about: “Cazzo che, fammi vedere la tua macchina del tempo!” ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-joke-i-heard-that-reminded-me-of-the-dope/688767/23 "2014-05-20T17:40:11Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Time travel is one of those topics that frequently pops up here on the dope, especially in GQ and IMHO ranging from possibility of said technology to if you could send a piece of technology back in time what would you send, and multiple variations of the theme. > > Here’s the joke: > > Guy decides is would be great to take a smart phone back in time to amaze famous scientists such as Leonardo DaVinci, etc. So he travels back in time and hops out of his time machine carrying a brand new iPhone walks up to DaVinci who is quite simply amazed at the arrival of this stranger before him. The guy says holding up the iPhone, “I am from the future and I have brought to you this amazing device that will allow us to talk wirelessly, play music, collect data such as the weather, be our personal organizer, etc.” DaVinci looks at him for a second, and says “Fuck that, let me see your time machine!” How about “Da Vinci looks at him for a second and says “Your great-grandson showed me a better device yesterday”” ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-joke-i-heard-that-reminded-me-of-the-dope/688767/24 "2014-05-20T19:36:55Z")
> [@Octarine](#): > > Personally, I’m putting my money on da Vinci himself being a time traveler. Picture the scene: your average Joe gets ahold of a time machine, travels back to the past to visit Leonardo with a bunch of sketches of modern day inventions he can impress him with, then finds that _he’s_ the one who has to fill the role. Been done. It’s a side plot/consideration in Heinlein’s _The Door Into Summer_. (The protagonist is told the story that a prior time travel volunteer, an engineering student named Leonard Vincent, opted for a maximum-range jump of about 500 years.) ETA: Also a number of stories about travelers who jump back to see the crucifixion, only to find themselves on the cross. “Behold the Man” by Aldiss, and others. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-joke-i-heard-that-reminded-me-of-the-dope/688767/25 "2014-05-20T19:38:12Z")
> [@Sean\_Factotum](#): > > How about: > “Cazzo che, fammi vedere la tua macchina del tempo!” Great, now I can say, “Fuck that!” in Italian. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-joke-i-heard-that-reminded-me-of-the-dope/688767/26 "2014-05-20T20:05:40Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Great, now I can say, “Fuck that!” in Italian. That’s only if Google Translate can be believed. Babblefish couldn’t give me a translation, even with “Forget that” substituted. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-joke-i-heard-that-reminded-me-of-the-dope/688767/27 "2014-05-20T20:13:47Z")
I’d wager there are a number of interesting ways to convey “Fuck that!” in Italian. Even if you didn’t speak the language you’d probably understood what was meant if you heard it spoken, and certainly when accompanied by gesturing. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-joke-i-heard-that-reminded-me-of-the-dope/688767/28 "2014-05-20T20:17:16Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Time travel is one of those topics that frequently pops up here on the dope, especially in GQ and IMHO ranging from possibility of said technology to if you could send a piece of technology back in time what would you send, and multiple variations of the theme. > > Here’s the joke: > > Guy decides is would be great to take a smart phone back in time to amaze famous scientists such as Leonardo DaVinci, etc. So he travels back in time and hops out of his time machine carrying a brand new iPhone walks up to DaVinci who is quite simply amazed at the arrival of this stranger before him. The guy says holding up the iPhone, “I am from the future and I have brought to you this amazing device that will allow us to talk wirelessly, play music, collect data such as the weather, be our personal organizer, etc.” DaVinci looks at him for a second, and says “Fuck that, let me see your time machine!” “Fuck that, I’m waiting for 6s! Knowing my luck it will only come after I die.” ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-joke-i-heard-that-reminded-me-of-the-dope/688767/29 "2014-05-20T20:25:56Z")
Now we need someone with a time machine . . . to go back to the OP, and tell a better joke. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-joke-i-heard-that-reminded-me-of-the-dope/688767/30 "2014-05-21T11:59:53Z")
You should have seen what the joke in the OP was like before “secret edit” (with no time limit) became an option back in 2023. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-joke-i-heard-that-reminded-me-of-the-dope/688767.md?page=1)