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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 10:53 PM
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Poll question: If you could turn back the clock what year would you like it to be again?
This is a tough one for me.

The years I've chosen are somewhat random.
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 10:54 PM
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1. 1993-1996
Those were good years for me and the country.
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 10:56 PM
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2. 1987
I'd choose a different college.
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Huckebein the Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 10:57 PM
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3. 1994
Edited on Mon Mar-28-05 10:58 PM by Dark_Leftist
I would go to a different high school

and 1998

I would choose a different college
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 10:59 PM
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4. 1998. The year our miracle was born. The year our marriage evened out.
The year we bought our first home. Life, love, everything was working out fine. :hi:
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:12 PM
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16. 1998 here too
Had a great job paying mucho $$$$$ and good benefits, Billy Jeff was in office, my house hadn't started to implode, my neocon nazi neighbors hadn't moved in next door, X-Files was still on the air...

I better stop here before I get too bummed out. :(
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solinvictus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 10:59 PM
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5. 1987..
I'd have waited to join the active Army rather than going into the Reserves at 17.
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hedgetrimmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:00 PM
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6. 6th century bc
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:08 PM
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13. I don't remember it well
Tell us why.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:00 PM
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7. 1979 - The year I graduated from High School
All the things I would do, if i knew what I know now
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Dave Reynolds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:01 PM
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8. 1979
Purely for selfish personal reasons, I made some totally life-screwing mistakes back then.

Luckily, I learned some things, though.
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candle_bright Donating Member (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:02 PM
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9. I wouldn't turn back the clock at all
We'd have to go through all the crap we've already gone through all over again.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:03 PM
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10. about 10,000 BC...
Dawn of agriculture and all that. "All right, listen up! This-- is my boom-stick...."
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:04 PM
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11. 1972. May 10. About 2:30 PM
I could have avoided doing something that I'm still paying for having done.

Assuming that I'd know then what I know now.

Redstone

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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:27 PM
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20. dude, that's thirty years....
Edited on Mon Mar-28-05 11:27 PM by mike_c
I'm sure you know that better than anyone. I hope it works out. Best.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-05 09:04 AM
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27. Thank you for your kind words...
Things have worked out OK, but I do tell the kids "if you hurt yourself badly enough when you're young, don't bother getting old." Though generally only on cold, rainy days.

(Just joking, of course.)

Redstone
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:07 PM
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12. 1962. Puberty.
I'd like to go through that again knowing what I know today at 55.
:rofl:
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tinfoilinfor2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:33 PM
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21. 1962 for the same reasons. And to try to change some stuff.
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:42 PM
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23. Wow, we are birth cohorts on some social scientist's database!
:hi:
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cedahlia Donating Member (883 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:08 PM
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14. 1995
was one of, if not, the most exciting, fun years of my life. And there was lots of great music around that time, too.
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:09 PM
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15. 1993, all the way to 2000. Then start all over again.
Ah, those were the days...
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pres2032 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:14 PM
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17. 2002 - sophomore year of college
i'd say 2001 and relive all of college again, but that would include 9/11 and i'd rather not relive that.
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:18 PM
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18. Nov. 2000
And I would be in Palm Beach telling those old fucks not to vote for Pat buchanan
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:20 PM
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19. 79 Was My First Year Of College... But I Would Have Enjoyed The 40's Too..
... so I vote for 45. (But does that mean that I can't enjoy it since I wasn't even born yet?? Or does this magic spell allow me to be alive and go back in the past as well?)
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samplegirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:38 PM
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22. 1997
was flying high
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 11:49 PM
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24. 1963
I'd try to convince President Kennedy to avoid Dallas.
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Yupster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-05 12:41 AM
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25. 1969 because I missed the
girl I shouldn't have missed. I'd like to make a better effort.

Historically, 1860. I'd like to do what I could to avoid the Civil War.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-05 12:46 AM
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26. Aw, shit. Back to my first love, my babies...
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Freebird12004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-05 10:11 AM
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28. 68
I was not far away from moving out of the South forever. I've had a helluva good time up north but every time I start thinking about moving back south something happens that takes me farther away from Georgia.
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