What if.....

[PoliteSuccubus]

The news only reported facts, and let you draw your own concultions....

At your birth your parents were given a sheet which listed your best talents so that you could grow into your full potential.....

Common kindness was truly common....

People didn't judge you by bits, but accepted you as a whole and unique person.... (such a nice girl, if she wasn't fat. Such a nice boy, but he's gay.)

Respect was a norm....

 

[Guest]

The news only reported facts, and let you draw your own concultions....

At your birth your parents were given a sheet which listed your best talents so that you could grow into your full potential.....

Common kindness was truly common....

People didn't judge you by bits, but accepted you as a whole and unique person.... (such a nice girl, if she wasn't fat. Such a nice boy, but he's gay.)

Respect was a norm....

Thank god it never happened

 

[JustAnotrGuy]

life would be pretty fucking dull. To throw out the bad is to throw out the good as well if you have neither to compare the other to, sort of a tao thing

 

[Johnny Mayberry]

The news only reported facts, and let you draw your own concultions....

At your birth your parents were given a sheet which listed your best talents so that you could grow into your full potential.....

Common kindness was truly common....

People didn't judge you by bits, but accepted you as a whole and unique person.... (such a nice girl, if she wasn't fat. Such a nice boy, but he's gay.)

Respect was a norm....

The world would be a much cooler place...would we know how to deal with it?

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

I didn't mention that the results would be good. Everyone thinks the 50's were so perfect, but really, they weren't. Common kindness was only for "your own kind" etc.

The one I wish for the most is the talent one tho....how much has been lost because some genius is pumping gas, never having had the opptunity to discover....what ever it was they were a genius at?

Do you wonder if Stephen Hawking might of not been so awesome if he'd been out chasing girls?

 

[grimreefer]

Do you wonder if Stephen Hawking might of not been so awesome if he'd been out chasing girls?

What makes you think he doesn't? Have you seen ALL the attachments for his chair...

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

At this point, I think girls chase him!

My friend answered a singles ad, and the guy is also wheelchair bound with CF, and a comp programmer. They fell in love, and she married him. She said it was the best 32 cents she ever spent, and he's a real sweetheart. A lot of people say that she settled, but I don't. I can see her eyes glowing with happiness when she tells me some of her stories, and none of them have to do with his handicap.

 

[Guest]

The news only reported facts, and let you draw your own concultions....

That could never happen. I learned in grad school that one person's idea of an important fact was not the same as another's -

At your birth your parents were given a sheet which listed your best talents so that you could grow into your full potential.....

Nahh - part of the fun of being parents is watching your kids develop - and wondering what will happen?

Common kindness was truly common....

This wouldn't be a bad thing, actually!

People didn't judge you by bits, but accepted you as a whole and unique person.... (such a nice girl, if she wasn't fat. Such a nice boy, but he's gay.)

Also would be nice, but then who would we make fun of? (sorry, being facetious!)

Respect was a norm....

I think respect should be earned. I have had bosses and supposed "superiors" who were incredible idiots!

These are all wonderful ideas. Unfortunately I've had too many alcoholic beverages this evening and thus am too argumentative! But I must say - I am very curious about the attachments on Steven Hawking's chair!

 

[J.B.]

What if Butterfingers actually made you skinnier and you could blink and get your work done?
What if’s are nothing but a waste of time.

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

What if’s are nothing but a waste of time.

I write. I'm a writer. "What if" is what it's about for me.

 

[JustAnotrGuy]

Hehe, what if's are the reason we've made any progress as a species. Sure, those guys saying what if I do this and this usually end up with completely different results than expected, but that's how we got to some of our most significant inventions.

Unless of course you're talking about what if in the past tense, then ya, it doesn't do much good, but it gives people something to do

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

So the electric guys call Edison and say, we got a product, electric, but not a lot of folks have any use for it. So how about ...um...lighting! Ya, lighting!

So Edison started working on it, and the electric guys kept calling and calling saying "You got any progress?" and he said "Ya, I know 10,000 ways NOT to make a light blub! We are making GREAT progess!"

But he kept what if-ing the shit out of it til he got it licked.

 

[grimreefer]

So the electric guys call Edison and say, we got a product, electric, but not a lot of folks have any use for it. So how about ...um...lighting! Ya, lighting!

So Edison started working on it, and the electric guys kept calling and calling saying "You got any progress?" and he said "Ya, I know 10,000 ways NOT to make a light blub! We are making GREAT progess!"

But he kept what if-ing the shit out of it til he got it licked.

Actually, as Edison favored Direct Current he lost... umm... but thats not what this is about...

 

[JustAnotrGuy]

Another classic example is rubber for tires that doesn't crack when cold and melt when heated. He tried hundreds of different things to make it more stable and felxible, but he just could not find the right ingredient until he accidentally dropped something in the vat (can't remember what exactly off the top of my head) and it did the trick, talk about fucking luck

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

Darn, you mean my history teacher in Jr. high was feeding me urban myth?

 

[grimreefer]

Darn, you mean my history teacher in Jr. high was feeding me urban myth?

I misread your post. (speed-scanning )

I thought you were concluding that Edison was responsible for our electric (lighting) grid today instead of the ol' light bulb. My bad. Do you like peanut butter?

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

Good old Geo. Washington Carver, born a slave, became a presidental appointee after rescueing the Cotton farmers....

Seems the weevils had killed the above ground cotton, and left the peanuts alone...which were often planted in the same feild...so Geo, he thought up a bunch of ways to use peanuts to make them more marketable...includeing peanut butter...

You sir, are speaking to an alum of Geo. Washington Carver Jr/Sr High school!

How did bad housekeeping lead to better health?

 

[Lost Cause]

The first Harley..

In 1903, they were perplexed on how to get the fuel properly to the new engine. They came up with "what-if" we used a tomato can for a venturi to give the proper ratio of fuel to the engine? It worked.

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

Remember the movie Apolo 13?

"We've got guys dying up there, and this is what we have to save them with!"

They ended up using things like a sock etc to rebuild the thingie that got the carbon diox out of the air systems....