# What would you put in a time capsul? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 4, 1999, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-in-a-time-capsul/11720 "1999-12-04T05:42:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cool\_Hand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@Cool\_Hand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cool_Hand)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-in-a-time-capsul/11720/1 "1999-12-04T05:42:00Z")
I keep seeing an add on the History channel for an upcoming program. It is about what would you want to see put in a time capsul that will be closed for a thousand years. Ah, if the world is still around when they open it… I’d like them to find the package of microwave popcorn I put there for them. ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-in-a-time-capsul/11720/2 "1999-12-04T07:05:00Z")
Polyester… not only would it last that long, but I would be glad to see it go out of fashion for a thousand years. Didn’t like it in the 70’s…don’t like it now. * * * “Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good things.” --Edgar Degas ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-in-a-time-capsul/11720/3 "1999-12-04T07:26:00Z")
I think I’d want to add something that would confuse and/or alarm future generations - say, a Paulie Shore movie. ---
**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-in-a-time-capsul/11720/4 "1999-12-04T09:01:00Z")
yea confuse the shit out of the future. Put in a whole load of canned things. Canned spray cheese, canned spray air, canned spray paint. Then a mysterious note like “the government is closing in, only you can find the truth with these” Or we could do one better than a simple Pauly Shore movie, we could just put Pauly Shore in. And Dr Laura for that matter. Please * * * I know that I have put you through hell, and I know that I have been one rough pecker. But from here on, you are all in my cool book.- Seth Gecko From Dusk Till Dawn ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-in-a-time-capsul/11720/5 "1999-12-04T20:50:00Z")
\Don’t put in any dictionaries! Given the spelling you used on this topic heading, you need all the help you can get in this century.\ * * * Save The Endangered Jackalope! Send Cash Now! If You Do This, I Will Use The Cash To Save Any Jackalope That I Happen To Find! Send Cash Now! Before It’s Too Late! My Bills, I Mean **The Jackalope’s Bills** Are Due The 15th Of The Month! _This has been a message from the Illuminated Committee To Save The Jackalope. Fnord._ ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-in-a-time-capsul/11720/6 "1999-12-04T20:53:00Z")
An “e” at the end. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-in-a-time-capsul/11720/7 "1999-12-04T20:54:00Z")
Again, slow on the draw. ---
**Author:** ![CatRimbaud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@CatRimbaud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatRimbaud)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-in-a-time-capsul/11720/8 "1999-12-04T23:32:00Z")
A Twinkie. I want to have something to eat that will remain fresh for that long when I awaken from my cryogenic slumber to save the world from Wesley Snipes. I sure as hell wouldn’t want Taco Bell. You’d have to have ball-balls to eat that stuff. * * * I am not insane. I am just an average girl who enjoys the lost art of torturing small animals by duct-taping them to railroad tracks. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-in-a-time-capsul/11720/9 "1999-12-04T23:39:00Z")
Thousands of tiny time pills _for activated timed release…_ ---
**Author:** ![Brightmoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@Brightmoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brightmoon)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-in-a-time-capsul/11720/10 "1999-12-04T23:45:00Z")
i’d put a book in because they probably won’t be around any more. some suggestions would be: The Outsiders and The Chronicals of Narnia. my crazy bro suggested a shotgun.(stupid. huh?) * * * Whatever!!! Just don’t screw up my life with your wicked stupid ideas! ---
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 1999, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-in-a-time-capsul/11720/11 "1999-12-05T00:21:00Z")
Something biodegradable. We don’t want to pollute the future with our junk, how do we? Let’s show them our true spirit and try and help them out somehow. We just passed the six billion mark not too long ago, didn’t we? Imagine how crowded the future must be! Why don’t we make it a time BOMB instead and do something for their overpopulation problem? Wouldn’t that be neighborly of us? “A gift, from the past to the future.” – Sylence \This is what happens when I drink too much caffeine.\ * * * I don’t have an evil side. Just a really, really apathetic one. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 1999, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-in-a-time-capsul/11720/12 "1999-12-05T00:27:00Z")
That Schrodinger guy’s cat. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 1999, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-in-a-time-capsul/11720/13 "1999-12-05T01:01:00Z")
More seriously, how about a computer? Think of how fast computers have evolved this century, then imagine what they might be like in 1000 years. * * * JMcC, San Francisco, [JJM’s page from the Bay](http://members.tripod.com/~weirdstuff/index.html) “The world is a dungheap, and we are maggots that crawl on it!” -Aldonza, Man of La Mancha ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 1999, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-in-a-time-capsul/11720/14 "1999-12-05T01:04:00Z")
I haven’t decided what to put in a time capsule yet but I found pre-made time capsules in the supermarket checkout stand. A little plastic tube with end caps. My first thought was “what a dumbass piece of crap.” Second thought was “_I’m_ the dumbass for not thinking of it first and marketing it.” Then I noticed the printing on the tube, “01-01-00.” The freaking things aren’t even Y2K compliant! * * * It’s your fault that I have no one to blame but myself. ---
**Author:** ![lovelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@lovelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelee)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 1999, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-in-a-time-capsul/11720/15 "1999-12-05T01:09:00Z")
Would you believe that someone copyrighted “01-01-00”? It’s showing up on all sorts of touristy crap (hats, t-shirts) now. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 1999, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-in-a-time-capsul/11720/16 "1999-12-05T03:03:00Z")
A pack of cigarettes. Smoking is a dying art. (pun intended) Remember Bogie and Becall? * * * This space for rent. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 1999, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-put-in-a-time-capsul/11720/17 "1999-12-05T20:50:00Z")
The collected works of Cecil Adams and Jan Harold Brunvand. Just so the people of the future could see that while we sometimes believed some silly stuff, we weren’t complete idiots. I’d be willing to bet money that the Blue Star Acid UL is still going strong in a thousand years…