OT: The joke reminds me of an old Omni story wherein a time traveler shows Newton a modern calculator and Newton freaks out.
How about:
Andy_L
May 20, 2014, 5:40pm
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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””
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Now we need someone with a time machine . . . to go back to the OP, and tell a better joke.
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.