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¿Question #104?
janiera: If you were able to go to any time in history and meet a (not necessarily) famous person, who would it be? And why?

oldhoss: Assuming that I'm not there to change the world for the better (e.g., killing Hitler before the Holocaust), but just to hang out and meet someone, I think a day with Earnest Hemingway would be pretty fun.
bkdkk: Jesus!
resin: Shakespeare; hanging out with him would be good conversation, good times, good ale, and the key to confirming that he wrote his own plays.
bcooperok: I'd go back to 1960 and kick the ass of that guy who stood up my Mom. My Dad said when he met her on the dancefloor she was just broken-hearted. I'd fix that guy. Teach him to respect women, and not let him leave her waiting at the dance.... wait...
Jatoha: I don't really think much of meeting famous people, I'll go with Laura Ingalls
Felimid: Emily Bronte ... 1) Big fan of her poems and book, 2) Ask her what happened to her second novel.
hob69: I'm adopted, so that's a no-brainer.
Frubgarde: Charles Fort.
DOCTORSLIME: the inventor of this time machine that made it possible, and stop him!
KrisVerbeeck: Me in my previous life. To see what I will learn
Gamegrunt: Jesus Christ. He is the focal point of the history of mankind.
NateStraight: C. S. Lewis. He was a flipping genius.
ironmule: E.A. Poe. He's my favorite writer and I would love to talk to him about some of his poetry.
Giorflee: Jack Kerouac. He's my hero.
themagni: I'd like to meet the people who go on the first interstellar flight.
DHEK: Hmmm... I'm not sure. I've got to research this up really carefully because I want to make sure I meet someone who I'll enjoy meeting and who I'd have fun with, not just meet because he's famous (and yes I'd want to meet a famous person).
tdyck: Jesus, because he is by far the most influential person ever and if his claims are true it seriously affects my life. If it turned out to all be a farce, I would see what Pontius Pilate was up to.
Leo-T: Ben Franklin - very interesting guy - read his essays, including "Fart Proudly"
daveroswell: I'd like to hang out with George Carlin during his Little David years, when he was mellow and not so pissed off.
ZiggyZambo: I would like to sit and talk with Christ
Otterdance: I was going to say Jesus, but then I realised he wouldn't speak English. But I bet he could if he really tried, but I know he wouldn't.
greglios: I'd go back to meet Eve and give her a slap.
Aljovin: Jesus, to see my Savior.
roberto: Leonardo da Vinci.
bigbadsteve: whoever, i am not picky
vampywife: There are several possible candidates that would be interesting to visit, but I would be too afraid I would alter things and wimp out of the trip.
jace_813: King Arthur - To find out if her really did exist and if so what all of the hullaballoo was really all about.
arkibet: Oh, I dunno... it would be for sex
John3: 1941, churchill. Just sounds really fun with the cigars and fine liquor
jellospike: Albert Einstein
Megadev: Jesus, just to see what all the hype is about
POvidiusNaso: I'd like to meet Ovid, the Roman poet, pre-exile, so I would know what he looked like.
javelin98: Marquis de Sade. I have so much to thank him for.
GuyHill: Hannibal, to tell him not to bother
puffinge: I'd go back and warn Clinton about the dress. I think he would have been even greater without the scandal coming to light.
GrandpaDave: Shakespeare
Lord_Prussian: Inconceivable
erli: Marie Curie. I want to know what possessed her to keep uranium in her drawers.
Great Dane: myself
2amp: dave chapel (sorry about spelling), talk to him about his comdey & ask him to stop using a word that bothers me
The Unbeliever: 42
skrutsch: I think I'd like to meet my Mom when she was young. I'd just like to know her better.
leece: Alan Turing. Why? "Don't do it Mr Turing! Put down that poisoned apple! You're a genius and your death will be mourned by millions in the future!"
peterk: Isaac Newton or James Watt
ikeafetishist: antoni gaudi. how did he come up with the designs?
Admiral Fisher: So many, but Socrates, Nelson, Elizabeth 1 and John Lennon spring to mind.
snoozefest: buddha?
sifu-uk: Emperor Claudius - to see how he feels about all the fictional portrayals of him.
gnomehome: I'd visit your parents before your birth and explain birth control.
heli: I'd like to find out a few things: did Marco Polo really go to China, what happened to the Romans captured at Carrhae, what paths did humans take to populate this world, where did the first speaker of proto-Indo-European live
ekted: I would love to give a tour of the present to any famous intelligent person from 200+ years ago (Newton, Galileo, da Vinci, etc)
AWildEep: My grandfather. Great guy from what I hear.
EndersGame: Maybe Sir Francis Drake. Apparently he circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper.
Wintergoblin: Charles Darwin
Randy Cox: Probably a player form the Negro Leagues.
isolated: I'd like to meet Rasputin. And try and kill him just for laughs.
AlorielLelyn: Gandhi, because he was the ultimate pacifist. I would want to learn from him, how to be like him.
melissa: Probably the 1900s and my great great grandfather - because no-one knows how he got his house!
Spielfreak: This sounds suspiciously like a question from one of my college applications 25 years ago, except that then I had to invite three famous people to dinner. Back then I invited Einstein, Edison, and Raquel Welch. This time I'll choose Lee Harvey Oswald the night before the Kennedy assassination, so I could beat him silly and prevent him from being an active part of the event.
viogression: Caesar, just to warn him about that Brutus guy. And to see how screwy I can make the timeline.
fsumarc: Nicholae Tesla. my hero.
Blackwind: wow...too many choices
CortexBomb: If it actually had historical ramifications, probably Marx. If it was just for fun, probably Lucretius or Seneca
fellonmyhead: I owe somebody a fiver from eleven years ago; I'd like to go back and give it back to him.
djlg: Track down an early Adolph Hitler and give him a right good thumping... or encourage him to continue being an artist.. or something!
geberus: Native Americans prior to Columbus, to really hear the stories
haraggan: Frederick Douglass or Groucho Marx. It's hard to decide.
BobDodgerBlue: Socrates, it would be an interesting conversation
tardibean: Guinivere. I want to know why she couldn't love Arthur
netfilterz: Time travel is way too dangerous...
Ludocrazy: All the wives of Henry VIII
jens_hoppe: Jesus - to know for sure. ;-)
chaddyboy_2000: I want to see dinosaurs.
Melantha: My maternal grandmother. I never knew her.
queequeg: my father when he was a boy because i would love to see if he was always such a great man
darquil: Jane Austen
Gelatinous Goo: my wife as a child
sos1: Mark Twain, for reasons too obvious to mention. (And one that I should mention: no language barrier.)
mrbeankc: George Meade and shake his hand after Gettysburg
pernishus: Alan Turing. Talk to him about modern computing, and see what he thinks, what new theories he would have.
Skyjack: Jesus, to see how he could have loved me enough to die for me.
ValJor: Klara Pölzl. I would make it so that she would never meet Alois Hitler.
CDRodeffer: I'd like to meet Adam to ask him many things.
skelebone: William Randolph Hearst... and I'd kick him in the junk.
nix342: Einstein. Genius and good to drink a beer with.
toucana: the first living organism....cool
nerman8r: Jesus. He was the man
LudesFactor: i'd like to meet one of my great-great-(or even great-)grandfathers, probably on my father's side
AnakinOU: Jesus.
Gregarius: Socrates seems like he would be cool to hang out with
Ryno8: I would visit a pre-1900 releative and tell him how to become rich... then Ide have more games today, as a spoiled rich kid.
Zambogirl: I'd want to meet Jesus, I'd have alot to ask him.
bard: William Shakespeare
Dante_Cubit: I'd want to meet a young Orson Welles and see what real genius was like.
MisterCranky: Hitler's mom, so I could kick her in the uterus really hard. Or, if that's not an option, I guess I'd like to meet Gandhi, and kick him too.
Friendless: Jesus, to find out the truth
Debate: Jesus--I want to know if, as an Atheist, I'm going to hell.
GeminiWeb: How about go to the future and see me to get some great investment tips ...
MikeMKH: Nietzsche, since I have so much to learn from him, still
jttm: A pharoah. How the heck did they build that pyramid??
Septic: Leonardo da Vinci. Gawd we could talk and talk and explore the universe
ynnen: HP Lovecraft, to discuss my college term paper I wrote about Cosmic Indifferentialism in American Literature
Shakar: Buddha.
janiera: Right now... Anne Boleyn... Cause that era of British History has always fascinated me.