May, 10th 1905

[Anonymous]

No- I don't know what happened on that date. Thats really not important.

But let's say, you are who you are on this exact day 100 years ago-

So it's may 10th 1905- DROP THAT CELL PHONE!- use your creative mind to think about what you would be doing on this day, and How a 'train(s)' or various trains would come into play.

No- none of this, I went to Piggly wiggly, or Oinky Boinky- whatever it is... I bought this and that at JC Penney- *buzzer sound* WRONG!

Back yourself up 100 years- what would you be doing, would you be taking trains more often.. how would your life differ?

I'd like to limit to trains, because some people might get a wet diaper if I don't- but the key word was 'like' so if it doesn't happen- I won't cry.

matter of fact, the five stars means I have my fair share of battle scars, so write whatever you want, whatever comes into the mind of yours, so long as it would have happened in 1905, i'm vool with that.

Exemption: Computer.. you need that to type your response.

Everyhting else.. NO!

No Cellie, No TV, No.. beep boop machine..

Just the whistle of a steam engine.

SO have it out...

[Anonymous]

I did say 1905, thats 1-9-0-5.

Not 1985 1-9-8-5

No mini skirts made of snake skin- No acid washed jeans-

AND NO MOTLEY CRUE

I think the 'U' has two dots on it, but lady-dah.

[nanaimo73]

A year and a half after Kitty Hawk. Darn planes.

[tree68]

Gotta go to the city today. No trains, so the horse and buggy will have to do. It's 15 miles - that'll be 3 or 4 hours each way - another day shot. Hope I get home before dark.

[gabe]

I go the the Milwaukee Road's corporate office and say . . .

"I know it may seem odd that I know this, as you were not planning on releasing your plans to build your pacific extension until 1906, but you should really reevaluate your plans."

Then I get the heck out of Dodge and move to Brazil so as to avoid the oncoming draft of 1916. I am not a draft dodger, but I already know that we win, so what is the use . . .

Gabe

[mersenne6]

...Rumor has it that some guy from California is gonna ask the Santa Fe to make a record breaking run from Chicago sometime this summer.....heard anything about that?

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe

I go the the Milwaukee Road's corporate office and say . . .

"I know it may seem odd that I know this, as you were not planning on releasing your plans to build your pacific extension until 1906, but you should really reevaluate your plans."

Then I get the heck out of Dodge and move to Brazil so as to avoid the oncoming draft of 1916. I am not a draft dodger, but I already know that we win, so what is the use . . .

Gabe

Sounds like a good idea.......from henceforth I shall be Generalissimo Dan in the 1905 time machine!

[Anonymous]

Well, if you are going to do that, Mr. Harmon, please look up Henry Ford, try to persuade him that the internal combustion thing will never work and suggest he look into the world wide telegraphic web.

[Hugh Jampton]

I know what happened on thah date;

"On Wednesday May 10th, 1905, the Oklahoma Territory was struck by one of the worst natural disasters in early American history. Tornadoes pounded the southwest part of the Territory, one of which flattened the town of Snyder. The “official” death toll is listed today as 97, but the actual number of victims may never be known. One hundred years later, this single tornado remains the second most deadly (at least) in Oklahoma history, and ranks among the 20 most deadly tornadoes in United States history."
from http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/wxevents/19050510/

Henry Fonda was born

THE COAT-OF-ARMS of the Province of Manitoba was assigned by Royal Warrant of King Edward VII on May 10th, 1905. The Armorial Designs were specified as: "Vert on a Rock a buffalo stantant proper, on a Cheif Argent the Cross of St. George," to be borne on Seals, Shields, Banners, Flags or otherwise according to the Law of Arms.
from http://www.flaggenshop.com/fotw/flags/ca-mb.html

The 31st running of the Kentucky Derby was also on this day

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by lfish


Well, if you are going to do that, Mr. Harmon, please look up Henry Ford, try to persuade him that the internal combustion thing will never work and suggest he look into the world wide telegraphic web.

With my trusty lawyer at my side, Brazil shall rise as a super power and we will rule the world........Pax Brasilia!!!!

MOOHAHAHAHAH MOOHAHAHAHAHAH

Work with me here people

[gabe]

I would be willing to allow you to call its most majectic city Rio de DanJarmino and its capital Harminilla if you would agree to my ambitious Dreadnought building program.

Just think if we had our shipyards hury, we could beat the 1906 completion of the Dreadnought and the world would be ours and we could finance the building of the trans-amazonian railway.

Gabe

[dharmon]

Absolutely.......In fact, not only are we going to set new standards for warships, we will grasp the importantance of the naval air arm and have aircraft carriers before anyone else. Once the Harmon Doctrine in in effect, we'll be needing them to rid the Southern Hemisphere of the influence of the European and American Imperialists. There may be no WWI since they will still be licking thier wounds from defeat by the Brazilian forces.

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe

I would be willing to allow you to call its most majectic city Rio de DanJarmino and its capital Harminilla if you would agree to my ambitious Dreadnought building program.

Just think if we had our shipyards hury, we could beat the 1906 completion of the Dreadnought and the world would be ours and we could finance the building of the trans-amazonian railway.

Gabe

Hmmmmm, World Domination from a country whos biggest exports are rubber and bananas?

Ohhh, I get it, your Dreadnaught's are made of RUBBER as the shells bounce off of them..Yeah, thats a great idea, tell ya what I can sell you the plans to the lead clad zeppelin I have laying around here for a very reasonable price.[:p]

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe

I would be willing to allow you to call its most majectic city Rio de DanJarmino and its capital Harminilla if you would agree to my ambitious Dreadnought building program.

Just think if we had our shipyards hury, we could beat the 1906 completion of the Dreadnought and the world would be ours and we could finance the building of the trans-amazonian railway.

Gabe

Hmmmmm, World Domination from a country whos biggest exports are rubber and bananas?

Ohhh, I get it, your Dreadnaught's are made of RUBBER as the shells bounce off of them..Yeah, thats a great idea, tell ya what I can sell you the plans to the lead clad zeppelin I have laying around here for a very reasonable price.[:p]

And of course, I will have to find and eliminate the family lines of future enemies of the state............[:D][:D]

[chad thomas]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

QUOTE: Originally posted by lfish


Well, if you are going to do that, Mr. Harmon, please look up Henry Ford, try to persuade him that the internal combustion thing will never work and suggest he look into the world wide telegraphic web.

With my trusty lawyer at my side, Brazil shall rise as a super power and we will rule the world........Pax Brasilia!!!!

MOOHAHAHAHAH MOOHAHAHAHAHAH

Work with me here people

You might want to wait till bug spray is invented.

[gabe]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe

I would be willing to allow you to call its most majectic city Rio de DanJarmino and its capital Harminilla if you would agree to my ambitious Dreadnought building program.

Just think if we had our shipyards hury, we could beat the 1906 completion of the Dreadnought and the world would be ours and we could finance the building of the trans-amazonian railway.

Gabe

Hmmmmm, World Domination from a country whos biggest exports are rubber and bananas?

Ohhh, I get it, your Dreadnaught's are made of RUBBER as the shells bounce off of them..Yeah, thats a great idea, tell ya what I can sell you the plans to the lead clad zeppelin I have laying around here for a very reasonable price.[:p]

Believe it or not, Brazil had a farily sizeable fleet of Dreadnoughts not too long after this date. Besides, we will have more advantages. We will know that Brazil is a cattle mecca long before everyone else realizes; we will build our empire on B.S.

Heck, we will be so successful we will get Caterpillar to invest . . . in our country . . . and nearly . . . bank . . . rupt . . . the company---sorry that has already been done; we will just do it sooner.

Gabe

P.S. Dan, we seem to have a fundamental schism in our strategy. I was hoping we could just refuse to sign the Washington Treaty and artificially hamstring the deveolopment of our dreadnouughts AND perfect the prozimity fuse. I like the idea of preventing the Holocost by world domination though.

[dharmon]

Gabe...I'm not hardover on any one plan.....as long as we end up filthy rich and have plenty of toys.....we can talk.....

[CopCarSS]

I'd write a long thought out response, but I'm too durned busy planting a lot of crops. Dadgummed city folk always waltzing around trying to let the world know how they plan to take it over. [;)]

Chris
Denver, CO (well, actually, unincorporated Adams county...)

[gabe]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CopCarSS

I'd write a long thought out response, but I'm too durned busy planting a lot of crops. Dadgummed city folk always waltzing around trying to let the world know how they plan to take it over. [;)]

Chris
Denver, CO (well, actually, unincorporated Adams county...)

I may be an Indianapolis resident right now; but don't kid yourself, I have bailed enough hay and fed enough cattle in my time to claim a non-city-folk status.

But, don't worry, it is not like either of us have to worry about BNSF's Montana grain rates.

Gabe

[CopCarSS]

QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe

QUOTE: Originally posted by CopCarSS

I'd write a long thought out response, but I'm too durned busy planting a lot of crops. Dadgummed city folk always waltzing around trying to let the world know how they plan to take it over. [;)]

Chris
Denver, CO (well, actually, unincorporated Adams county...)

I may be an Indianapolis resident right now; but don't kid yourself, I have bailed enough hay and fed enough cattle in my time to claim a non-city-folk status.

But, don't worry, it is not like either of us have to worry about BNSF's Montana grain rates.

Gabe

Actually, I haven't done much of it myself. But thw two major industries I've worked in (Electrical Power Generation, and Concrete Flatwork) wouldn't offer me lots of job oppurtunities in 1905, so I figured I had better take to the fields. I'm figuring on saving up some money, investing in the stock market, and getting out in the early part of October, 1929. After that, I think I'm going to put everything into gold, and see what happens! [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

[gabe]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CopCarSS

QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe

QUOTE: Originally posted by CopCarSS

I'd write a long thought out response, but I'm too durned busy planting a lot of crops. Dadgummed city folk always waltzing around trying to let the world know how they plan to take it over. [;)]

Chris
Denver, CO (well, actually, unincorporated Adams county...)

I may be an Indianapolis resident right now; but don't kid yourself, I have bailed enough hay and fed enough cattle in my time to claim a non-city-folk status.

But, don't worry, it is not like either of us have to worry about BNSF's Montana grain rates.

Gabe

Actually, I haven't done much of it myself. But thw two major industries I've worked in (Electrical Power Generation, and Concrete Flatwork) wouldn't offer me lots of job oppurtunities in 1905, so I figured I had better take to the fields. I'm figuring on saving up some money, investing in the stock market, and getting out in the early part of October, 1929. After that, I think I'm going to put everything into gold, and see what happens! [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

You would make more money if you put all of your money in braziers. They made a killing in the depression.

Gabe

[Anonymous]

My advice, CopCar, is to go ahead and farm in Adams County. It's great land, I'm betting the climate will be relatively benign for several years to come, and you will enjoy living on the Front Range before it gets discovered in a big way. Farming should prove fairly lucrative, especially if a large European war breaks out in about a decade or so.
I' m betting a national park will get established up around Estes Park, so you may want to look into putting a little land aside up there.

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe

You would make more money if you put all of your money in braziers. They made a killing in the depression.

Gabe

UUrrrraaagghhh <Tim Allen voice> as Dan awakens from workday coma....

...now we're talking!!!!!

[gabe]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe

You would make more money if you put all of your money in braziers. They made a killing in the depression.

Gabe

UUrrrraaagghhh <Tim Allen voice> as Dan awakens from workday coma....

...now we're talking!!!!!

Your interest in the "support" that this industry gave the Depression economy is commendable.

Gabe

[CopCarSS]

QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe

Your interest in the "support" that this industry gave the Depression economy is commendable.

Gabe

Especially when one considers how it brought money into circulation, making a bit easier for those "strapped" for cash...grooooooooooaaaaaaaaannnnnnn...

[gabe]

(In a muffled sound)

Mmssh Sssffeef ssueee (as my mouth bites my fingers to keep from typing the other three puns I was thinking of. It is so much easier to bit your tongue.

Gabe

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

QUOTE: Originally posted by lfish


Well, if you are going to do that, Mr. Harmon, please look up Henry Ford, try to persuade him that the internal combustion thing will never work and suggest he look into the world wide telegraphic web.

With my trusty lawyer at my side, Brazil shall rise as a super power and we will rule the world........Pax Brasilia!!!!

MOOHAHAHAHAH MOOHAHAHAHAHAH

Work with me here people

*School Teacher*: Young man,that is unacceptable. I may have to get the paddle out[}:)]

[ajmiller]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

QUOTE: Originally posted by lfish


Well, if you are going to do that, Mr. Harmon, please look up Henry Ford, try to persuade him that the internal combustion thing will never work and suggest he look into the world wide telegraphic web.

With my trusty lawyer at my side, Brazil shall rise as a super power and we will rule the world........Pax Brasilia!!!!

MOOHAHAHAHAH MOOHAHAHAHAHAH

Work with me here people

You know what they say: It's all fun and games until your underling colonels stage a bloody coup! And if you manage to survive, you'll have to flee the country disguised as a nun. If you're smart you'll remember to raid the treasury before you go.

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ajmiller

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

QUOTE: Originally posted by lfish


Well, if you are going to do that, Mr. Harmon, please look up Henry Ford, try to persuade him that the internal combustion thing will never work and suggest he look into the world wide telegraphic web.

With my trusty lawyer at my side, Brazil shall rise as a super power and we will rule the world........Pax Brasilia!!!!

MOOHAHAHAHAH MOOHAHAHAHAHAH

Work with me here people

You know what they say: It's all fun and games until your underling colonels stage a bloody coup! And if you manage to survive, you'll have to flee the country disguised as a nun. If you're smart you'll remember to raid the treasury before you go.

Well...Shah...as the used to say in Iran...before the overthrow that is....

[greyhounds]

Seriously,

A lot of us would be dead.

Think of a world with no real medicins, no antiobiotics, no educated doctors. Medical education was a joke. There were no standards. Some "medical" schools were for less than a year. They could cut off your leg, but if it became infected, which was likely, you died.

I recently read a story in the Wall Street Journal about a farmer from near Lanark, Illinois. (and we're all basically farmers if this is 1905) He was hauling a propane tank behind his tractor when the hitch failed. The tank ruptured and he was burned horribly. In 1905 he would have been a dead man. Shoot, in 1995 he would have been a dead man.

But they airlifted him to the University of Wisconsin where doctors put him into an induced comma for seven months. They gave him an artificial, patented new skin and then brought him out of the comma. Today, he's back farming. and has a grandchild. He did loose a thumb. But ***, we've come a long *** way in 100 years.

They didn't have telephones, we have cell phones. I can fly to Florida in less than two hours for less than a day's pay. And then retreat into air conditioning. The future is amazing.

And it's only gonna' get better.

Reading history is one of my hobbies. I've recently come to the conclusion that's it's amazing that anyone survived. Sure was tough way back then 100 years ago.

My father was born on May 7, 1907 - he lived most of his life without electricity, think of that. The electricty came to his farm in 1947. 40 Years after his birth. He died in 1977. 30 years after he got an electric light to read by.

He never did get on an aircraft.