If you could bring back a person from back in the day...

[ck4829]

And when I say "day", I mean the day when people believed that the Earth was flat, the heart was where the thinking happened, and that heavier objects dropped faster than lighter objects, and put them in the same room with a Bushbot, how do think a conversation between the two would pan out?

Here's how I would think it would happen:

Guy from back in the day: "Thou are an IDIOT!"

[sakabatou]

1. Who knows

if they'll even have a conversation.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Galileo in a room with bush??

I pity the fool!

[unblock]

3. i'm with elvis costello: leave them in damnation's cellar

Did anybody notice, over marmalade and eggs
In between the Princess' legs
What with wars and floods and beggars
Not to mention stocks and shares
If you have a moment to spare
Can you write and reassure me that I have seen
They're constructing a time machine
There will be no need for the obituary pages
We can have any hero from the bygone ages
'Til the truth emerges, the argument rages

Chorus:
The major and the minor
Turn from tallow into tar
Should we leave them in their place?
Down in damnation's cellar

When any form of deity that you might enjoy
Can be conjured with a test-tube and a flame
If it's out there then science can explain it
Or at least remove the blame
And if theres is anyone you'd like to see again
The speak up quickly

Send us back Da Vinci then we don't have to ponder
The maddening smile of "La Giaconda"
The critics say Nijinsky, the dancer, of course
While the punters would probably prefer the horse
You'll find it's quicker than history, cheaper than divorce

Chorus

Bring back Liberace or Ollie and Stan
Shakespeare will have to wait his turn
Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return
I suppose we live and learn, though it's hard to believe as we
cheerfully burn
It's curious
Some will call for justice.
There are murders to solve
What about Hitler? Or at least Lee Harvey Oswald
Give us this day and everything we squander
Anyone beautiful
Somebody blonder
They'll never please mankind, so lie back and enjoy it
Stop press: They've just decided to destroy it

Chorus

[sui generis]

4. If you could bring back a cro-magnon or a neanderthal

or anyone who knew not to shit where you eat they would scratch their nuts and grunt "hma hmfr gngngngng IDIOT!!!!!!"

[Cleita]

7. My cat knows not to shit where he eats and

he's smarter than a Bushbot. He knows not to run out in the street in front of a car. If he makes a mistake, like getting caught in a skunk trap, he learns from it and never repeats it. He's also learned if he stands his ground when the dogs try to chase him that they become afraid of him. Guess whose lord of the manor around here. You can't say the same for the Bushbots.

[dipsydoodle]

9. Trouble is - if one turned up

they could lay claim to at least the whole of Western Europe as their homeland. :)

[waiting for hope]

5. I'd stick Thomas Jefferson in the room -

No air conditioning (Thom would stay dryer...), very little water and a bottle of good vino - Bush would fold like a deck of cards and cry like a baby as Jefferson pounded him point for point on how he has destroyed the Constitution.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. I'd like to think of Jesus taking a swing at * . . . n/t

Second choice: Dante finding a special place in hell for * in his masterpiece "The Inferno".

[OneBlueSky]

8. Louis Armstrong . . . just because . . . n/t

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