07-21-2005, 01:38 PM
Minionman,Jul 20 2005, 10:19 PM Wrote:Granted. You must now drive out to California to collect your prize of a milky way bar. failure to show up in person will result in a $1,000 fine.
I wish I could have a bowl of chocolate ice cream right now.
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You are unable to get your bowl of ice cream -- at first. As you live the long life ahead of you, you always harbor secret regret over this unfulfilled wish.
Fifty years in the future, your colleague Igor J. Klernfelter develops a machine that can transport a single person through time! Unable to endure a life in which your single, innocuous wish has been thwarted, you volunteer to test it. Klernfelter, who has ambitions to right many of historyâs greatest wrongs, insists that this first test be used on something unimportant that will not change history too much.
You go back to this date in history and HAVE that ice cream, RIGHT NOW. Itâs DELICIOUS! You savor it slowly, resting the bowl atop Klernfelterâs unique, soon-to-be-patented Hyperchronicity Sequencer.
Unfortunately, the sequencer is thrown hopelessly out of whack by exposure to the chilly treat. You cannot return to your proper time! You also cannot get a message to Professor Klernfelter, as the test conditions preclude your influencing history.
Unable to retrieve his machine, the broken-hearted Klernfelter loses interest in his research, and time travel is stillborn.
Somewhere, Adolf Hitler is laughing.
I wish I didnât have to go to the dentist in a few hours.
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