A Fantasy Machine - Page 2

rhadin · 10-19-2010, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

Library of Alexandria for me!

Me, too!

rhadin · 10-19-2010, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

I'd like to have tea with Miss Marple in St. Mary Mead.

Well, if I had to share, I'd like share some of the house swill with Horace Rumpole. Actually, I wouldn't mind being able to follow Horace through a complete case, as long as I could also read his thoughts about the magistrates and Claude Erskine-Brown

rhadin · 10-19-2010, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Fat Abe

Helen of Troy, naked. Was she worth launching a 1000 ships, or was she a floozie who could only hold your attention for 5 minutes?

This is the question of the ages. But remember, Abe, beauty is both in the eyes of the beholder and a product of its times. A Reubenesque figure is sometimes called beautiful and sometimes called overweight -- just depends on the century, the decade, and the country.

neilmarr · 10-19-2010, 10:36 AM

Yup, Rhadin. I read somewhere that Marilyn Munroe would be diagnosed as clinically obese these days. Read somewhere else that the Queen of Sheba must have weighed in at around 300 pounds to have been considered remarkably attractive in her era and region.

Might use my fantasy time machine to pay MM a visit, but Her Royal Highness Queen of Sheba, I'd pass on.

Revisiting intriguing women? Interesting ... I think I'd like to have hung out a little with my late grandmother (nothing naughty, you understand, just good pals) when she was a mightily educated but rebellious and militant feminist flapper back in the early twenties. Apologies thread purists that she wasn't a fictional character. She just seemed to act like she could have been.

Cheers. Neil

Freeshadow · 10-19-2010, 09:56 PM

Fat Abe:

If it would need her being naked to answer the question if she was worth starting a war, then the answer is "she wasn't"

Steven Lyle Jordan · 10-19-2010, 11:00 PM

I'd join up with Doc Savage and the Fabulous Five!

Mindy · 10-21-2010, 11:51 AM

Rivendell (obvious, but true)

A Tour of the Discworld (couldn't choose between Lancre and Ankh Morpork)

Bush tea with Mma Ramotswe at the President Hotel in Gabarone (will be warmer than St Mary Mead, but it was a close thing)

A day on the beat with Jack Spratt and Mary Mary solving Nursery Rhyme Crimes

wodin · 10-21-2010, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Mindy

Rivendell (obvious, but true)

A Tour of the Discworld (couldn't choose between Lancre and Ankh Morpork)

Oh, defiantly Ankh Morpork! I get off on decadence.

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10-19-2010, 10:36 AM	#19
neilmarr neilmarr Posts: 7,216 Karma: 6000059 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Monaco-Menton, France Device: sony	Yup, Rhadin. I read somewhere that Marilyn Munroe would be diagnosed as clinically obese these days. Read somewhere else that the Queen of Sheba must have weighed in at around 300 pounds to have been considered remarkably attractive in her era and region. Might use my fantasy time machine to pay MM a visit, but Her Royal Highness Queen of Sheba, I'd pass on. Revisiting intriguing women? Interesting ... I think I'd like to have hung out a little with my late grandmother (nothing naughty, you understand, just good pals) when she was a mightily educated but rebellious and militant feminist flapper back in the early twenties. Apologies thread purists that she wasn't a fictional character. She just seemed to act like she could have been. Cheers. Neil

10-19-2010, 09:56 PM	#20
Freeshadow temp. out of service Posts: 2,794 Karma: 24285242 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Duisburg (DE) Device: PB 623	Fat Abe: If it would need her being naked to answer the question if she was worth starting a war, then the answer is "she wasn't"

10-19-2010, 11:00 PM	#21
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	I'd join up with Doc Savage and the Fabulous Five!

10-21-2010, 11:51 AM	#22
Mindy Away with the Faeries Posts: 483 Karma: 8459 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Device: Sony PRS 650	Rivendell (obvious, but true) A Tour of the Discworld (couldn't choose between Lancre and Ankh Morpork) Bush tea with Mma Ramotswe at the President Hotel in Gabarone (will be warmer than St Mary Mead, but it was a close thing) A day on the beat with Jack Spratt and Mary Mary solving Nursery Rhyme Crimes