If you had a Time Machine...

[Shemeska]

Be there at Golgotha in 33AD and in the days leading up to the Crucifixion.

Prevent the burning of Kiev by the Golden Horde

Prevent the presumed burning of a portion of the Library of Alexandria by Bishop Theophilus of Alexandria in 391AD.

Prevent the fall of Byzantine Egypt to the army of Amr Ibn al-As, and thus prevent the obliteration of the surviving portions of the Library of Alexandria by order of Caliph Umar.

Prevent the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 1009 by al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.

Put a bullet through the brains of Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin, and Beria.

Prevent L Ron Hubbard from ever publishing the worst Sci-Fi books ever published, to say nothing of his later pseudo-science mental help books.

 

[Chaldfont]

Prevent L Ron Hubbard from ever publishing the worst Sci-Fi books ever published, to say nothing of his later pseudo-science mental help books.

The ears of dozens of lawyers working for a certain "science-based" cult just perked up.

Seriously, those books are gawdawful.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Seriously, those books are gawdawful.

You're being kind. I used to work with a guy who had the unabridged audiobook for Battlefield Earth, and he'd listen to it every year. On the same dates. It was something like 40 hours of drivel (Yes, I listened to it once and wanted to swallow molten glass later) and he could quote it word for word.

 

[JamesDJarvis]

Assuming it is cost effective I'd go back to a pawnshop with some jewelry and use those funds to buy a bunch of comics. do this a few times. Store 50% of them some place "safe" bring the rest to the future, sell them as I am able. The plan might have worked out fine for me after all consider how many comics are missing, i may have gotten excited and bought too many.

 

[Blue Sky]

I would use it for profit and personal gain. I'm a horrible human being. Once I had my millions, only then would I go back in time to seek illumination.

Looks like you're a little... wait for it... "behind the times"!....

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20030319/104808600007.html

Eh, fudge it.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20030319/104808600007.html

Huh, for some reason, your link isn't working properly.

 

[sniffles]

After reading Queen Dopplepopolis's thread about holiday treats, I'd go back and ask my mom to make me about a dozen chess pies, then freeze them, and haul that deep freeze with me when I moved from Texas to Oregon. I'd just allow myself a little at a time so they'd last a long, long time, since my mom passed away 20 years ago.

Oh, and I'd tell my mom I love her, just one more time.

 

[Desdichado]

Actually, y'know what would be really fun to do with a time machine? Go back to 1975-1980 or so and see my wife as a little girl. She was very cute, based on the few old movies and pictures I've seen. (Now, she's spectacularly, glamorously and stunningly gorgeous.) I wish I could have known her before she was 15.

Although my interest in her would probably come across as really creepy, I imagine.