A gnome walks up to your computer... - Page 2

Radii · 06-01-2005, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by rkmsuf

I was going to say he was a peanut shell.

As long as I'm a peanut shell that Steve Bartman will slip on and bowl over the entire section of fans who are trying to go after the foul ball! Though I did make the assumption that you could not determine your social standing but that you were at least a person

cthomer5000 · 06-01-2005, 04:05 PM

Ok, thinking back on my chocies, I would probably place a greater value on some assurance of prosperity if having another chance to pick. I think social standing would be far more important to me than location or year... so i could gamble on one of those two.

Buzzbee · 06-01-2005, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by cthomer5000

Ok, thinking back on my chocies, I would probably place a greater value on some assurance of prosperity if having another chance to pick. I think social standing would be far more important to me than location or year... so i could gamble on one of those two.

I wonder if

Movie Star, Hollywood

would get you there. How would you define 'star'. Would the gnome make you an extra and consider that a movie star, or would you be on the level of a Jack Nicholson or John Wayne? Or might the gnome turn you into a porn star? Maybe star in a home movie? Hmmmm...maybe too much lattitude here for a fucking Nazi gnome.

Castlerock · 06-01-2005, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by WSUCougar

You do realize you could be a cosmonaut...

Hmmm, I hadn't considered that but you didn't give much time.

Being behind the iron curtain in 1969 would be bleak. I imagine that a cosmonaut had a better life than the average Russian but not one I would willingly choose.

Radii · 06-01-2005, 04:13 PM

my first thought was anywhere in the United States in 1985. All I need is to not be absolutely flat broke and I'll buy some microsoft stock. The odds on that seem reasonable. I would really rather not take my chances on location.

Buzzbee · 06-01-2005, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Radii

my first thought was anywhere in the United States in 1985. All I need is to not be absolutely flat broke and I'll buy some microsoft stock. The odds on that seem reasonable. I would really rather not take my chances on location.

Ahh, but you have lost all knowledge of your current being. Therefore you could end up a janitor in Boise and not know to buy Microsoft Stock.

sterlingice · 06-01-2005, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Bee

Someone should go through and fill everyone's requests...

Sounds like fun- I'll give some a try.

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Originally Posted by Maple Leafs

NHL Referee
May 27, 1993

Congrats- you're not Kerry Frazer and he overrules you in the game anyways. Either that or you become Kerry Frazer and don't screw up the call but you have to go through the rest of your life with the handicaps of being deaf, blind, and dumb just like he is. The gnome even lets you choose which

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Originally Posted by Raiders Army

President, 2000.

Castro it is.

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Originally Posted by WSUCougar

frigate captain
Boston

December 17th, 1773. You probably shouldn't have been drunk that night and passed out on deck. Thankfully history doesn't remember your name.

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Originally Posted by JeeberD

Lesbian supermodel about five minutes ago.

Yeah, that would work...

The supermodel standards in Somalia just aren't quite as high as they are here. Ouch.

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Originally Posted by Mustang

New York Yankee

1927

http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/shockur01.shtml

You're actually pretty good. But you sport the name Urban Shocker and you die the next year at the age of 36.

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Originally Posted by rkmsuf

Indy 500 racecar seat, 2005.

this one is a big gamble.

You're a groundskeeper who is found playing around in the garage before the race.

SI

Tara · 06-01-2005, 04:28 PM

Wanna be a new Missy Elliott(maibe just a little slimmer..but in the end, fuck, who cares!), 1995, somewhere in the States.

Men, money and big cars...something that should be experienced once in life.

Maple Leafs · 06-01-2005, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by sterlingice

Either that or you become Kerry Frazer and don't screw up the call but you have to go through the rest of your life with the handicaps of being deaf, blind, and dumb just like he is. The gnome even lets you choose which

I choose to be Fraser. At the pivotal moment in the game I confer with my linesman, skate over to the timekeeper's booth, and ask for a microphone. I address the crowd and explain to them, in a straightforward manner, that I am a weak and cowardly man. I describe how I do not have the courage to make the toughest call of my career, and how I am already planning the excuses I will rely on for the next decade. Then, I skate to center ice, produce a nickel-plated pistol, and shoot myself in the mouth. After a standing ovation (and quick cleanup) the game continues, and the world is a better place.

sterlingice · 06-01-2005, 04:34 PM

I'd be really in favor of a gnome with a crazy sense of justice. People who wish to be kings or some sort of celebrity get the lowest rung while those just asking for a better life like, say, someone in Ethiopia during the famine just wanting to be in Western Europe or the US during the 1980s becomes JK Rowling or Oprah or something.

SI

judicial clerk · 06-01-2005, 04:34 PM

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Emperor.
China.

Good morning your worship. The year is 1221 and today is shaping up to be a fine fall day here in Beijing. someone arrived just this morning at the palace and requests an audience with your highness. He says his name is Temujin and he brought some friends with him. Shall I show him in?

Qwikshot · 06-01-2005, 05:07 PM

A

Anywhere in U.S.
B

1960's
C

Avid guitar player

Coffee Warlord · 06-01-2005, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Qwikshot

A

Anywhere in U.S.

B

1960's
C

Avid guitar player

You die of overdose approximately 10 minutes after inhabiting this body.

thealmighty · 06-01-2005, 05:28 PM

Monty Python troupe member, 1969

gottimd · 06-01-2005, 05:29 PM

So what could the downside be to choosing to be a Multi-billionaire Shapeshifting Powerful Sorcerer in current day, anywhere?

mhass · 06-01-2005, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Tara

Wanna be a new Missy Elliott(maibe just a little slimmer..but in the end, fuck, who cares!), 1995, somewhere in the States.

Men, money and big cars...something that should be experienced once in life.

Anyone else starting to really like her?

mhass · 06-01-2005, 05:32 PM

How long until we get the post:

Ben Lewis
October 2000

Hmmm?

Samdari · 06-02-2005, 09:41 AM

Joe Namath.

1969.

Or Suzy Kolber, 2004.

Marc Vaughan · 06-02-2005, 09:42 AM

England, 1966 ... might as well watch the World Cup

WSUCougar · 06-02-2005, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Marc Vaughan

England, 1966 ... might as well watch the World Cup...

...or perhaps end up as Mick Jagger.

Drake · 06-02-2005, 04:11 PM

gnome, last week

st.cronin · 06-02-2005, 04:13 PM

It's a stupid exercise because life gets better and better with each passing year; less suffering, more affluence, more options for happiness. Or maybe I should say, this game is like an iq test; the further in the past you pick, the dumber you are.

Klinglerware · 06-02-2005, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Drake

gnome, last week

Poof! You just got passed over for a bit part in a Travelocity commercial...

oliegirl · 06-02-2005, 04:21 PM

I am convinced that WSUCougar watched Charmed recently...they just had an episode where a gnome gets killed by a character in a book - turns out the book is "charmed" and sucks people in to the 1930's...the authors (brothers) were killed before they could finish the book so it's writing itself - kind of along the same lines as this thread!!!!

FWIW, radii watched this episode with me (as he does most nights) and actually commented that it was one of the better episodes/story lines they had done...

WSUCougar · 06-02-2005, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by st.cronin

It's a stupid exercise because life gets better and better with each passing year; less suffering, more affluence, more options for happiness. Or maybe I should say, this game is like an iq test; the further in the past you pick, the dumber you are.

Or perhaps you just have very little imagination?

And no, oliegirl, I honestly didn't see that, although it's a strange coincidence.

Samdari · 06-02-2005, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by st.cronin

It's a stupid exercise because life gets better and better with each passing year; less suffering, more affluence, more options for happiness.

And yet people are NOT happier. Paradoxical? Perhaps, but all of the reasons you mention as life getting better and better are not leading to a happier population.

st.cronin · 06-02-2005, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Samdari

And yet people are NOT happier. Paradoxical? Perhaps, but all of the reasons you mention as life getting better and better are not leading to a happier population.

It's not my fault people aren't happier; I, personally, get happier every year, and would rather be a wage slave today than a baron in 15th century germany.

NoMyths · 06-02-2005, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by st.cronin

It's a stupid exercise because life gets better and better with each passing year; less suffering, more affluence, more options for happiness. Or maybe I should say, this game is like an iq test; the further in the past you pick, the dumber you are.

Poof! You just became a refugee fleeing Darfur.

Samdari · 06-02-2005, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by st.cronin

It's not my fault people aren't happier; I, personally, get happier every year, and would rather be a wage slave today than a baron in 15th century germany.

This does not change the fact that your initial assertion that people who chose anything but these times were morons because life is the best is has ever been now is not supported. If people were to choose based on when they would have the best life, wouldn't that be the time when people were generally the most satisfied with their lives? That would not be the times we live in now.

st.cronin · 06-02-2005, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Samdari

This does not change the fact that your initial assertion that people who chose anything but these times were morons because life is the best is has ever been now is not supported. If people were to choose based on when they would have the best life, wouldn't that be the time when people were generally the most satisfied with their lives? That would not be the times we live in now.

I'm not sure that's true. I don't know how you measure that, anyway. Objective measures like rates of depression are pretty much impossible to measure in the 19th century, for example.

Warhammer · 06-02-2005, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Maple Leafs

I choose to be Fraser. At the pivotal moment in the game I confer with my linesman, skate over to the timekeeper's booth, and ask for a microphone. I address the crowd and explain to them, in a straightforward manner, that I am a weak and cowardly man. I describe how I do not have the courage to make the toughest call of my career, and how I am already planning the excuses I will rely on for the next decade. Then, I skate to center ice, produce a nickel-plated pistol, and shoot myself in the mouth. After a standing ovation (and quick cleanup) the game continues, and the world is a better place.

What call is this? Mc Sorley's stick?

sterlingice · 06-02-2005, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Warhammer

What call is this? Mc Sorley's stick?

Nah, this is a week before when the Leafs are in the Conference finals against the Kings.

SI

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Drake assmaster Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Bloomington, IN	gnome, last week

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st.cronin General Manager Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Mexico	It's a stupid exercise because life gets better and better with each passing year; less suffering, more affluence, more options for happiness. Or maybe I should say, this game is like an iq test; the further in the past you pick, the dumber you are.

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