Good ideas - if you can get them to work.

[Gliondrach]

I have thought of a great way to make a vast fortune. I could take nutmegs and cinnamon back to the 17th Century. They are cheap now but cost a King's ransom in those days. With the money I get for selling them, I can buy gold and jewels and bring them back to this time. I just need to perfect my time travelling abilities. Or perhaps I could make surer money by writing a novel about someone who does this.

[Oracl]

Do you need an assistant once you have perfected your time travel abilities, Dr Gliondrach? :hyper: :blinkwave:

[Gliondrach]

You'll have to supply your own nutmeg. Tea and coffee would be good to trade.

[Brandy]

I have thought of a great way to make a vast fortune. I could take nutmegs and cinnamon back to the 17th Century. They are cheap now but cost a King's ransom in those days. With the money I get for selling them, I can buy gold and jewels and bring them back to this time. I just need to perfect my time travelling abilities ...
Far be it from me to rain :sunrain: on your idea, but ...
... Or perhaps I could make surer money by writing a novel about someone who does this.
Good luck with the novel. :) I'd like to read it, actually. :agree:

[Gliondrach]

It would have to avoid the time traveller altering the past. He wouldn't be able to buy a gold chalice that someone else actually did buy. He would have to have one made. By depriving someone of the chalice that they did buy he could prevent that person's family from escaping poverty years later by selling the chalice.

[Gliondrach]

A good way of reducing pollution would be by making cars that didn't need engines. This would be easy if all roads only went downhill.

[Tiggerwoos]

If you go to Hangman's Hill in Essex (Waltham Abbey) the ledgend has it that this little slip road in the middle of nowhere in a completely deserted area called Avey Lane that your car if you switch the engine off and take the car out of gear will get pulled up the hill by a hangman who several centuries ago used to pull people up the hill to sadly hang them for whatever reason.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, a few years back a friend, my bf, myself and our collies decided to go and find this place after telling ghost stories in the middle of the night. We drove around for hours and were about to go home when my bf came to a junction, stopped and said "what way shall I go?" My friend said left and I said right, then all of a sudden the car started rolling fast back up the hill.

We started screaming and tried it several times backwards and forwards and it kept pulling us up the hill!

I've taken family and friends there several times and each time it's worked, but there is a very eerie atmosphere there.

Here's a couple of links that other people have written about it:


http://www.mysterymag.com/yourexperiences/?page=article&subID=112&artID=586

http://hasnainhayder.tripod.com/

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060711132216AAidAmg

Sorry for hijacking the thread, just brought back memories when Gliondrach mentioned engineless cars and hills!

[Oracl]

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