"Time Traveler" in 1941: "modern" dress in old photos?

[Hemingway Jones]

I cannot wait for the new season.

I have some reservations with the new fellow and the seemingly Twilightification of it, if you will, bit I am going to give it a shot.

Though this is a conversation for another thread..! And we have that thread in Moving Pictures.

 

[jamespowers]

Well, obviously I haven't figured out how yet, but evidently I will -- it's the past, but it's also the future until it becomes the present.

I'll pack a steamer trunk in anticipation.

 

[jamespowers]

First class in a luxury time-liner is the only way to travel. If you must travel second class, they shove you into a little blue box, and I have not heard good things about the safety of those.

As long as the time liner isn't the Titanic.

 

[noonblueapples]

Well, actually time is not what you think it is... It's comlicated... It's very complicated. Everyone assumes that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non- subjective point-of-view, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly Timey-whimey... Stuff.

The single best episode of any television show ever

 

[Yeps]

The single best episode of any television show ever

Not so sure about that.
The Waters of Mars was fantastic.

and a different show: The Best of Both Worlds in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

 

[Hemingway Jones]

The single best episode of any television show ever

Certainly top 5! "The Girl in the Fireplace" gets me too. I love that one.
OK. We need to take this to the Who thread!

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=7455

 

[pretty faythe]

its a technical term

Timey-whimey?

 

[reetpleat]

The great thing about traveling to the past is that anything you do in there has already happened when you leave, so you cannot change anything. I cannot go back in time to kill Hitler because he was not killed, so therefore even if I try (highly unlikely) I have already failed in the 30s or whenever I may have done it.

Not so. Then why do they have the time police?

 

[Cobden]

Whilst somewhat off topic, I believe this may amuse those with regards the Hitler Time Travel problem...

http://www.viruscomix.com/page382.html

 

[LocktownDog]

Not so. Then why do they have the time police?

I thought that was Dream Police? Or am I just channeling late 70s cheesy rock again?

 

[carebear]

This photograph has been making the rounds of teh toobz lately, with commentary that the individual in the shades and printed shirt, 3rd from right, is actually a 21st century hipster and that the pic is thus "proof of time travel" - or at least a clever fake.

"Reopening of the South Fork Bridge, 1941(?), after flood in Nov. 1940. Gold Bridge, B.C., Canada."

He is certainly scruffy for his era, but the sunglasses look like those used for mountaineering at the time, and the shirt could easily be from a school or athletic team. The haircut, however, is classically pre-WW2, as is the camera he's holding.

He's a reporter from the future, interested in the great erections of the era.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1PsTtESoKQ

(only clip I could find, sfw)

 

[John in Covina]

Can an object or matter be in 2 places at the same time?

 

[Bourbon Guy]

Save the cheerleader .....

 

[noonblueapples]

Sort of fun video on this idea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc9nB3Odcq0

 

[flat-top]

Off topic, but...

..pretty darn cool

 

[ChadHahn]

I got very confused when I was reading I believe a Fitzgerald book and a girl said that she was hip to what the boy was talking about. I had to stop and look at the cover and read the copyright date. Even though the book was published in the 20s I had thought that that was a later term.

Turns out that it had to do with shaking your hips in New Orleans dance lines and being hipped to it was in fact a jazz age saying.

But a more logical explanation is that the man in the photograph stopped in at a bridge dedication after turning F. Scott on to the term hip.

Chad

 

[Atinkerer]

Pardon me, but have you got the space/time?

The guy in the picture could indeed be a time traveler; a Freemason.

Tony

 

[MrBern]

theres another site debunking the timetraveller theory

http://forgetomori.com/2010/fortean/time-traveler-caught-in-museum-photo/

 

[davidg]

As long as the time liner isn't the Titanic.

It all depends on whether you mean Titanic the Ocean liner or Titanic the Zeppelin!

 

[davidg]

Sort of fun video on this idea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc9nB3Odcq0

VERY neat.