England, June 1913
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If you mug someone, you set them free.
Probably not, so eventually somebody would ask me "What does it mean, exact change?" and I'd be like "Well, I don't know. I'd really like to tell you, but I don't know." ...
Further into the action, I would count on this sombody having mercy with me and, as it luckily turns out that he's a farmer, and agreeing to give me a lift to London on his hay wagon, since this is - totally unexpected and by pure accident - exactly where he's gotta be by the end of the day, too.
Once the time has come, please let me make up my mind about the latter first.......
I would set myself up as a psychic - I would be able to get many things right.
You'd directly benefit from anything modern that you "invented" as you would hold the patent and manufacturing rights. In other words, lots and lots of money.
As for myself, I'd find someway to extract myself from the plot of Somewhere in Time. If not possible, I'd invent a few things and sock money into Ford and Chevrolet in the teens.
Sail back to the United States, invest in Ford (oh, the ironicness), and get involved in the stock market through the 1920s--making sure to get out as unscathed as possible before Black Friday. Then use my newfound wealth to fund various humanitarian and scientific causes. Then maybe buy a small island in the Caribbean to retire on.
PANTY RAID!!!
Proclaim myself as the new Nostradamas and begin cataloguing events that will take place in the next 87 years, culminating in the apocalypse on December 31, 1999.
Hell, if I've had 87 years of "correct" prophecies, people will shit themselves come new year.
Hell, if I've had 87 years of "correct" prophecies, people will shit themselves come new year.
As someone else mentioned -- if you short sold stock knowing the date of the crash, you'd make even more money -- just don't stash your cash in one of the many banks that went tits up.
Oh, and I don't think it's any good inventing things years before their time if you can't build a working prototype from the materials and technologies that are available -- you'd just get laughed at, ripped off, or locked up as a lunatic -- especially in the UK where it was only socially acceptable to be eccentric if you had money.
I'd go and visit my grandfather, and try to get him to turn his chain of grocer's shops into supermarkets three years before the first Piggly Wiggly stores.
Score! Okay, someone hook me up with a DeLorean or something. I've got a fortune to make.
England ?!? I'd take the boat for Calais.
I know you're from France and all, but would you really want to be there a year later?
Oh, no worries then, eh?I'm from the west of France
What about thirty years later?
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Nah, World War I would have happened sooner or later either way.
I would either move to the United States or, if that's not practical, Ireland. My general goal would be to pick an English-speaking place that would avoid the worst of the war. The US would have a draft that could eventually bring me into the war, but that's pretty late. Ireland has plenty of its own problems, with uprisings and retaliation, but I figure if I keep to myself I won't have to worry about the IRA or Black and Tans.
I'd walk to the nearest dock I could find and Sail away from ww1 and the numerous bad years to follow in England, then in 1966 I'd return stinking rich from North America and my chain of fast food outlets and kidnap Geoff Hurst, and in doing so make the world a better place for all Scots to stay in.
Nah. It might work at first but things will start to turn out differently when more people take note of your prophencies, starting a snowball effect. The late 20th century would be significantly different if you say enough early on.
For example, I'm sure New Yorkers wouldn't want a warning for Bill Buckner to be more careful that day in 1986.
