if you could bring anybody back to life...

[riskllama]

who would it be, and why?

[riskllama]

i'll start...
cliff burton, for obvious reasons.

[muy_thaiguy]

Saxi. Poor guy. Got turned into one of those vampires from Twilight years ago. Hasn't been the same since.

[khazalid]

Arthur Russell? Mark Linkous? Ivan Bunin? Shakespeare? Jeebus?

One is harsh. Isn't it usually 'your dream dinner party'?

[waauw]

Napoleon. He wouldn't just accept these idiots in european parliament and actually teach them a lesson

[Dukasaur]

Napoleon. He wouldn't just accept these idiots in european parliament and actually teach them a lesson

A lesson in what? How to be a truce-breaking backstabber? How to bankrupt the richest nations in Europe?

They already have some members who know how to do those things.

[waauw]

Napoleon. He wouldn't just accept these idiots in european parliament and actually teach them a lesson

A lesson in what? How to be a truce-breaking backstabber? How to bankrupt the richest nations in Europe?

They already have some members who know how to do those things.

truce-breaking? When did Napoleon ever break a truce? He was the one who got backstabbed, both by his own men and foreign leaders. The austrians even broke their truce three times.
And though I admit, Napoleon wasn't exactly great on economics, his government was already bankrupt by the time he got into power. If not for his Italy-campaign his armies wouldn't even had gotten payed. Not to mention he at least was smart enough to sell Louisiana.

[muy_thaiguy]

Napoleon. He wouldn't just accept these idiots in european parliament and actually teach them a lesson

A lesson in what? How to be a truce-breaking backstabber? How to bankrupt the richest nations in Europe?

They already have some members who know how to do those things.

truce-breaking? When did Napoleon ever break a truce? He was the one who got backstabbed, both by his own men and foreign leaders. The austrians even broke their truce three times.
And though I admit, Napoleon wasn't exactly great on economics, his government was already bankrupt by the time he got into power. If not for his Italy-campaign his armies wouldn't even had gotten payed. Not to mention he at least was smart enough to sell Louisiana.

If I remember it right, he only sold it because he planned to take it back after he finished conquering Europe. Obviously that never happened, but still.

[waauw]

Napoleon. He wouldn't just accept these idiots in european parliament and actually teach them a lesson

A lesson in what? How to be a truce-breaking backstabber? How to bankrupt the richest nations in Europe?

They already have some members who know how to do those things.

truce-breaking? When did Napoleon ever break a truce? He was the one who got backstabbed, both by his own men and foreign leaders. The austrians even broke their truce three times.
And though I admit, Napoleon wasn't exactly great on economics, his government was already bankrupt by the time he got into power. If not for his Italy-campaign his armies wouldn't even had gotten payed. Not to mention he at least was smart enough to sell Louisiana.

If I remember it right, he only sold it because he planned to take it back after he finished conquering Europe. Obviously that never happened, but still.

I have to admit, I did not know that. But why would he do that? He looked up to the american founding fathers.

[muy_thaiguy]

Napoleon. He wouldn't just accept these idiots in european parliament and actually teach them a lesson

A lesson in what? How to be a truce-breaking backstabber? How to bankrupt the richest nations in Europe?

They already have some members who know how to do those things.

truce-breaking? When did Napoleon ever break a truce? He was the one who got backstabbed, both by his own men and foreign leaders. The austrians even broke their truce three times.
And though I admit, Napoleon wasn't exactly great on economics, his government was already bankrupt by the time he got into power. If not for his Italy-campaign his armies wouldn't even had gotten payed. Not to mention he at least was smart enough to sell Louisiana.

If I remember it right, he only sold it because he planned to take it back after he finished conquering Europe. Obviously that never happened, but still.

I have to admit, I did not know that. But why would he do that? He looked up to the american founding fathers.

He was also a conqueror. If he had succeeded with Europe, why should he have stopped there? Not saying he was the worst of history's conquerors, but in him, I think we saw an older version of Alexander the Great, who also kept conquering and only stopped because his troops threatened to mutiny. Napoleon attacked Russia at a bad time, and mother nature proved to be too much even for him. Cost him a large part of his forces.

[waauw]

I have to admit, I did not know that. But why would he do that? He looked up to the american founding fathers.

He was also a conqueror. If he had succeeded with Europe, why should he have stopped there? Not saying he was the worst of history's conquerors, but in him, I think we saw an older version of Alexander the Great, who also kept conquering and only stopped because his troops threatened to mutiny. Napoleon attacked Russia at a bad time, and mother nature proved to be too much even for him. Cost him a large part of his forces.

From what source did yout get this? Because from what I understood a lot of lies had been spread by the british around that time, even until far after Napoleon's death. According to his own memoirs he grew tired of war towards the end of his reign. As he matured he became less of an ambitious idealist and more of a mature pragmatist.

[saxitoxin]

Napoleon. He wouldn't just accept these idiots in european parliament and actually teach them a lesson

A lesson in what? How to be a truce-breaking backstabber? How to bankrupt the richest nations in Europe?

They already have some members who know how to do those things.

truce-breaking? When did Napoleon ever break a truce? He was the one who got backstabbed, both by his own men and foreign leaders. The austrians even broke their truce three times.
And though I admit, Napoleon wasn't exactly great on economics, his government was already bankrupt by the time he got into power. If not for his Italy-campaign his armies wouldn't even had gotten payed. Not to mention he at least was smart enough to sell Louisiana.

If I remember it right, he only sold it because he planned to take it back after he finished conquering Europe. Obviously that never happened, but still.

I have to admit, I did not know that. But why would he do that? He looked up to the american founding fathers.

He was also a conqueror. If he had succeeded with Europe, why should he have stopped there? Not saying he was the worst of history's conquerors, but in him, I think we saw an older version of Alexander the Great, who also kept conquering and only stopped because his troops threatened to mutiny. Napoleon attacked Russia at a bad time, and mother nature proved to be too much even for him. Cost him a large part of his forces.

IIRC, Britain declared war on France to start the Napoleonic Wars, not visa versa. Napoleon was a defender, not a conqueror. It just happened the people he was defending against were such a bumbling lot of incompetent buffoons (due to incest and inbreeding) that he ended up taking most of their territory in the process of defending France.

[betiko]

i'd like to see john paul 2 back to life so we could have 3 popes. that would be great!

[mrswdk]

Tupac.

RIP, sweet angel.

[ConfederateSS]

----Even more funny, Napoleon could sell the Brooklyn Bridge. For you see.Spain was letting France hold on to Louisiana. He sold it,without Spain's permission. TRUE THAT!!....As to who...Einstein ,he knows how to rock a killer hair dew. ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion).

[AndyDufresne]

Jesus, so we could settle for once and all what he would have said and done in every circumstance. We could setup a hotline to call or text questions to.


--Andy

[RD5]

Hitler. And I'd give him a "reality" show. Can you imagine the lulz?

[notyou2]

Benedict Arnold, because he was an amazing man.

[betiko]

Hitler. And I'd give him a "reality" show. Can you imagine the lulz?

A truman show where he gets to live in palestine?

[DoomYoshi]

I would bring riskllama back to life.

[riskllama]

I'm only dead on the inside.

[AndyDufresne]

I'm only dead on the inside.

I would bring riskllama's insides back to life.


--Andy

[Army of GOD]

Genghis Khan because he's probably really good at baseball

[tzor]

Harold Godwinson ... he seems like an overall nice guy who got a bum rap in battle.

I'd put him in charge of restoring the English Language to its former glory.

[AndyDufresne]

Harold Godwinson ... he seems like an overall nice guy who got a bum rap in battle.

I'd put him in charge of restoring the English Language to its former glory.

Here is the former glory:

This chart shows samples of the changes in English.
#1 is Old English or Anglo-Saxon (circa 450-1066 CE).
#2 is Middle English (circa 1066-1450 AD).
#3 is Modern English from about the time of Shakespeare.
#4 is another sample of Modern English, but it is more recent than #3.

--Andy