So…in honour of Comedy Central’s showing of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure tonight, I present this thread.
If you were Bill and Ted and you were on an “Excellent Adventure” who would you steal- er, borrow- from history and why?
Me, I am not entirely sure yet, but I definitely agreed with their selection of Sigmund Freud as extra credit.
I’d get my Uncle Bill, and Angela David, or any number of special people our world has lost.
Now this kind of post is what I want.
K.
Horatio Nelson
CS Lewis
Adolf Hitler (like, before he did anything)
Barbara Cartland (ditto)
JFK
J Edgar Hoover
Abraham Lincoln
(I’d combine the latter three using a cellular transducer biodevice, and then use my influence to create the perfect President)
Lewis Carroll
William Shakespeare (then make him watch Neighbours)
The guy who invented the word “Yowza” (seems like a decent sort of bloke)
Carl Jung (to annoy Zoggie;))
I’d also be sure to collect some stray butterfly or something whose absence from a primeval ice age will totally change the present day, a la Bradbury’s Sound of Thunder. Mwahaha, etc.
and of course Christopher Columbus, so that he never discovers America and Her Majesty’s Formal Kingdom Of Great Britain remains top nation FOREVER. HURRAH!
Ah, M. Voltaire, welcome. You had a present trip I take it? I would like you to meet Mr. Clemens and Mr. Wilde, I think you three would get along splendidly.
Mr. Wilde?
Mr. Wilde would you please pull yourself away from Mr. Whitman for one moment, and say hello to the other guests, and Mr. Whitman, please kindly refrain from offering to show anyone your barbaric Yawp in mixed company. You’ll be shown to your rooms later.
Yes, Prince Vlad? I’m aware that you, Herr Hitler, and Czar Ivan aren’t happy sitting at the kiddy table, when you learn to behave you can sit at the big table with Presidents Lincoln and Jefferson, Queen Elizabeth, and Mr. Ghandi.
Ah, Mr. Thoreau, having a good time I hope? What’s that, you say? Emperor Augustus is arguing with Rev. King? I’m sure it’s nothing serious, but thank you. By the way, have you seen Jesus? I’ve been running out of wine since Mr. Hemingway arrived.
(More later if I think of it)
What about that guy who played Erkel? I miss him. And if HE’S not dead, his career sure as Hell is.
Can I bring back some dinosaurs?
Good question 
Hmmmm let me think here…
Authors:
Vladimir Nabokov
Kingsley Amis
Gustave Flaubert
George Orwell
T S Eliot
Sylvia Plath
Dante
World Leaders or Politcians:
Franklin Roosevelt
John Kennedy
Martin Luther King
Malcom X
Abbie Hoffman(yes I know it’s a stretch but I love his writings)
Julius Caesar
Henry the VIII
Artists-very broad definition here
Claude Monet
Pablo Picasso
Jackson Pollack
Andy Warhol
Keith Haring
John Lennon
Leadbelly
Kurt Cobain
Jeff Buckley
Miles Davis
Easy:
Judge Crater
Ambrose Bierce
Joshua Slocum
Amelia Earhart (and her companion)
That should answer a lot of questions!
(think about it)
I’d go back just one second and take Winona Ryder home…
To hold a panel discussion on "Women and the Military"
-One of those Warrior-Priestesses they’ve dug up in the Ukraine
-Deborah from the Book of Judges
-Artemisia of Halicarnassus
-Zenobia of Palmyra
-Fulvia (Marcus Antonius’ first wife)
-Boudicca of the Iceni
-Jean d’Arc
-Deborah Sampson
To recite things for me
-Homer
-Sappho
-Virgil
-Catullus
-Will Shakespeare
-Lord Byron
Just to talk to
-Jesus
-Buddha
-Muhammed
-Moses
-Cleopatra VII
-G. Julius Caesar
-Alexander the Great
-Pericles and Aspasia
-Sitting Bull
-Chief Joseph
-Queen Elizabeth I
-One of the Pythia from Delphi
-A Vestal Virgin
-A Spartan woman from the 4th/5th century BCE
-A Athenian woman from same
-Sun Tzu
It’s gonna be mighty crowded in that time machine…
Elvis, so I could have him killed and put an end the Elvis lives nonsense.
I’d be interested in seeing Goliath, from the Old Testament, and how tall and big he really was. Also, Julius Caesar and Montezuma; J.P. Morgan; and the guy who invented the ice cream cone.
Richard III. Poor guy - I’d take him out of that awful situation, and get some great dinner conversation.