TevisMar 6
Fesshole 🧻
My students' writing topic was "If you could send one modern item back in time to one specific era, what item and era would you pick?". Huge range from "bicycle to China, 500 BCE" to "rabid badger to Boris Johnson's college room, 1984".
Mar 5 at 1:20pmWeb
Show threadCarsten FrankeMar 5
@fesshole package of condoms, to Fred Trump, 80 years ago.
Show threadunattributed 𓂃✍︎Mar 5
@carstenfranke @fesshole Most likely he wouldn't have used them.
Show threadEl AveríasMar 6
@carstenfranke @fesshole Rabid badger to Fred Trump's toilet bowl, 80 years ago.
Show threadHilaryMar 5

@fesshole

I am not sure that rabid badger counts as a modern item

Show threadArmy of the 12 MuskratsMar 5
@regordane @fesshole
Rabid badger with covid?
Show threadHilaryMar 5

@OrdRadical @fesshole

Yeah, that'd do

Show threadBillMar 5

@regordane @fesshole

Condoms existed then.

Show thread⁂ Fish Id WardrobeMar 5
@fesshole rubber duck to Pythagoras. (doesn't always have to be about changing the world.)
Show threadderptronMar 5

@fishidwardrobe @fesshole Might be more entertaining to throw goedel's incompleteness theorem at him--in its mathematical form.

"Oh, y'all worship sqrt(2)? That's mighty cute."

Show thread⁂ Fish Id WardrobeMar 5
@crazyeddie @fesshole this is how we don't get triangles. do you want triangles?
Show threadderptronMar 5
@fishidwardrobe @fesshole I hate triangles. That's why I burn all my bridges.
Show thread⁂ Fish Id WardrobeMar 5
@crazyeddie @fesshole you can't be mathematically sure you've burnt *all* your bridges
Show threadnotsoloudMar 5
@fishidwardrobe
If you're in Königsberg, you are provably unable to burn all your bridges
@crazyeddie @fesshole
Show threadChris BohnMar 5
@crazyeddie @fishidwardrobe @fesshole I love triangles! Especially as wheels -- they eliminate one bump!
Show thread⁂ Fish Id WardrobeMar 5
@DocBohn @crazyeddie @fesshole good for going up stairs
Show threadFrosch BMar 5
@fishidwardrobe better aim the rubber duckie at archimedes :D
Show thread⁂ Fish Id WardrobeMar 5
@b_age oh! silly me! failed to triangulate! :)
Show threadFrosch BMar 5
@fesshole a golden helium-filled mylar balloon to bronze era egypt
Show threadnotsoloudMar 5
@b_age
Could it be.........aliens??!!
@fesshole
Show threadSerge 🔻Mar 5
@fesshole perhaps consider a rabid honey badger? They usually go for the scrotum. Insurance.
Show threadGayDeceiverMar 5
@fesshole Pollonium to Adolph H
Show threadAnn T. PhởMar 5
@fesshole Vasectomy to Donald Trump's great grandfathers.
Show threadJeremy MallinMar 5

@fesshole
It would be a book regardless of which era. I'm not sure which right off the top of my head. Although, there would probably be different selections of which book depending on which era/place it was sent to.

Summation: just a regular printed book.

Show threadandreas, der tapfereMar 6

@JeremyMallin

Favourite plot:
The Voynich manuscript was sent back from a far (and regressed) future, without taking sufficient account of changes in language and writing over time.

@fesshole

Show threadƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞMar 7
@DerTapfere @JeremyMallin @fesshole
Plausible.
Show threadandreas, der tapfereMar 7

@spacemagick

I'm still with XKCD though:
https://m.xkcd.com/593/

But that's not mutually exclusive. 😂

@JeremyMallin @fesshole

xkcd: Voynich Manuscript

Show threadGender David CopperfieldMar 9

@fesshole

1) Brittney Spears "Toxic" to Beethoven because i think he'd like it and it'd be funny to pervert the course of music history that extremely

2) An enormous fuckton supply of testosterone to Inanna's temple circa (~2000 BC) so ancient trans man could have T

3) include myself in shipment #2