Who would you want to spend a day with?

[bczoom]

Given a choice (the whole jeanie thingy with one wish) of anyone dead or alive for which you could spend a day:

Who would it be?
What would you do?
Where would you be (and it could be in their time or yours)?
Why did you pick this person (and the other stuff about what you would do and such)?

EDIT: Oops, just thought of something. Depending on responses, this may need to be moved to the xxx section of the forum.

 

[Melensdad]

Stalin
Hitler
Pol Pot
etc.

I know it sounds sick, but those are the types of people I'd like to spend just one day with. Why? Because I have no clue what goes on in their minds to do the cruel things they did and I would like to try to gain some insight.

 

[Cityboy]

Slick Willy Clinton and Ronald Reagan.

One is a survivor and a great bullshit artist who knows how to get the chicks . From redneck trailer trash to president of the United States. Now that's determination and ambition! Can't help but admire the guy for that.

The other I consider the greatest president in my lifetime who almost single handedly eliminated the Soviet menace and pulled America from the depths and despair of the Carter toilet.

There's lots of others I'd like to meet, but these two popped into my head first.

 

[LarryRB]

Stalin
Hitler
Pol Pot
etc.

I know it sounds sick, but those are the types of people I'd like to spend just one day with. Why? Because I have no clue what goes on in their minds to do the cruel things they did and I would like to try to gain some insight.

If you look at true numbers and facts and not the TV hysteria of past and present.. Pol Pot was a hundred times worse than Hitler... Both were beyond cruel with a sick mind... Pol Pot killed many, many more than Hitler against the Jewish and Hitler at war with his war machine..

 

[Melensdad]

Larry, there are dozens of others that could be added to that sick list, Rwanda, China, Sudan, North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Bosnia all come to mind as places where stuff is still ongoing and where rulers are pretty contemporary, many still alive. It just amazes me what people have done and continue to do. It would be interesting to get some insight into the leaders, and also into the people's minds who follow those leader.

 

[LarryRB]

Bob

Yes I am aware of this too.,. I was trying to remember the name of a movie, which was one of the few that was accurate, about Pol Pot regime and the movie centered around a Cambodain news crew.

 

[Melensdad]

Bob

Yes I am aware of this too.,. I was trying to remember the name of a movie, which was one of the few that was accurate, about Pol Pot regime and the movie centered around a Cambodain news crew.

The Killing Fields

 

[LarryRB]

Larry, there are dozens of others that could be added to that sick list, Rwanda, China, Sudan, North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Bosnia all come to mind as places where stuff is still ongoing and where rulers are pretty contemporary, many still alive. It just amazes me what people have done and continue to do. It would be interesting to get some insight into the leaders, and also into the people's minds who follow those leader.

Herein lies a big part of world problems... We think we are right and our way is the only way.. I believe, and very strongly that people like Bin Laden is purposely being hidden in Pakistan. Their culture, the only thing those people have been taught and thus only thing they understand or believe,, will not allow the local village Pakistani's to rat on OBL.. they go to great lengths to hide him.. Even the Pakistani military is not interested in finding him or ratting him out... To them, we ARE the great Satan.. If I taught your daughter the same, and through her and her children and so on down the line several generations, it no longer is based on accurate or substantially accurate information., it is now FACT of life... SO anything that sounds foreign, is exactly that,, Totally foreign, and totally wrong against any particular countries culture and heritage.... Being in several foreign countries myself, I truly believe we are in the best country on earth.. We are, light years ahead of others at least most others, we have ten thousand times more per person (material objects) than the rest of the world... We expect the same from most others.. We expect the Iraqi's to follow suite.. Not going to happen. You cannot undue in three years what cultures have been teaching thousands of years.... We may show some minor progress, as seen by the average American. You are not going to see what people think is going to happen.. Many times now, I wonder, if we became a moderately closed society and what that would do to change worlds balance.. I'm referring to severely cutting back on foreign aid and even more so, with open borders, that of a gazillion containers coming per year.... Our own worse mistake is that of not studying others first before making a move... Hell, I was at the Sansui factory in Japan, 1971. I bought at that time, a Sansui 5000 receiver which at the time wasn't even marketed yet... At that time, the Japanese had, say 300.00 in actual cost, to include container shipping to LA port... They declared the cost at 900, the retail cost at 1500, and paid duty tax on that 600 declaration.. All the time, pocketing and hiding an additional 600 per unit... IT;s things like this, I wonder about really cracking down on and closing the American society. This includes, to stop being the worlds police force also....

 

[TOMLESCOEQUIP]

Given a choice (the whole jeanie thingy with one wish) of anyone dead or alive for which you could spend a day:

Who would it be?
What would you do?
Where would you be (and it could be in their time or yours)?
Why did you pick this person (and the other stuff about what you would do and such)?

I would love to spend a day fishing with my dad. I would like him to meet my son (9), who has the same zeal for fishing that my dad had. I lost my dad in 1980 when I was 22 & he was just 57. I was just getting over my 18 year old "knows it all phase" and was beginning to be friends again with him when he died. His beliefs & family values are things I'm passing on to my son. I learned that the secret to a happy life is not possessions, but "time" & how well you spend it. It's funny to think how good one of my dads (burnt) fried bologna sandwiches would taste right now..............

 

[v8dave]

I'd like to spend a day with two guys: Doyle McCormack and Sal Rubino Jr.

I don't know either of them, but Doyle is the primary engineer for the first picture and I'd like a long cab ride with him in this beauty. That's Doyle's head sticking out the window.

Sal owns the beauty in the second picture and I'd like a ride in that baby. Funny, a long time ago, there was a guy at San Jose airport who'd give you a ride in his P-51 for the cost of fuel. At the time, a few hundred for fuel was more than I could manage.

No redeming values here, pure lust of the experience. And that experience is more about the sound and feel than anything else.

Dave

 

[TOMLESCOEQUIP]

Dave.......If you ever get to Kissimmee Florida they have a war birds museum there & you can go up in some of them for not much more than the price of fuel. The guy there when I was last time looked like Tom Cruise in top gun.........you could tell he was just waiting to give the unsuspecting the ride of their life !! He just about begged us to go up but I had my kids with me then ( at that time they were 5 & 6) & I could'nt do it as they only take 1 passenger at a time. I KNOW the guy loved his job !!

 

[Big Dog]

I would love to spend a day fishing with my dad. I would like him to meet my son (9), who has the same zeal for fishing that my dad had. I lost my dad in 1980 when I was 22 & he was just 57. I was just getting over my 18 year old "knows it all phase" and was beginning to be friends again with him when he died. His beliefs & family values are things I'm passing on to my son. I learned that the secret to a happy life is not possessions, but "time" & how well you spend it. It's funny to think how good one of my dads (burnt) fried bologna sandwiches would taste right now..............

I second that and how coincidental it is with the dates and ages. 1981 when I lost him and I was 22. Today he'd get to see 4 grandchildren (2 mine 2 my brothers) and the first college graduate (my oldest). My father was the best mechanic I've ever known. He built mine and every one of my friends street rods. He loved it and I could put him on at least 6 more toys, I can see his smile!