It's not something my grandpa ever talked about. He wasn't really all that proud of it for obvious reasons. I should do some reading up. I have seen documentaries about them and they weren't the nicest of people.

I don't think they were that bad. Bob had once been the city Marshal of Coffeyville and he and one of the brothers were in law enforcement in Indian Territory. The Government quit paying them so they found another line of work. Emmett, the youngest one was just a kid. One of the non-Dalton gang members, Powers I think, was a well known drunk and n'eer do well. The Barndollar book is excellent and you can probably order it from your library. Very entertaining. The Coffeyville library had it and two others and I read them all.

My grandfather was present the day Mussolini was hung...that would be pretty cool to see...witness my grandfather, witnessing Mussolini's hanging.

Being any number of explorers who headed west and discovered unpopulated land.....

Being at the pentagon on 9/11 so I could know for sure what actually hit it.....(but that's a whole other story)

I also think it would be great to witness one or two of your greatest days as a kid.......

Very cool. A colleague of mine was in Romania for the revolution against Causcescu. On Christmas Day they hauled the Causcescu's to trial, and then executed them on National TV as a Christmas gift to the Romanian people.

Like the comedian said:
"Pardon me boys, are you the cats who killed Causcescu" :D

Cool. Did your grandfather have any interesting anecdotes about that day?

Well, the documentary leads you to believe that they were masochists and bisexuals with all sorts of nasty STD's.

Not too much.....he didnt talk about it a whole lot....I just remember him saying that it was the damnedest thing that that day was one of the few that he didnt have his camera with him.

I have a feeling it was one of those times where everyone didnt understand the magnitude of the moment until later....

Let me be the first to say great, great for hating texas, means you would never move here..:D but tell me, what can't you stand about it?? What is so different??:hmmm:

I would have liked to be there when whoaskew got his ass kicked by his whore's ex.

It wasn't his whore, and it wasn't an ass kicking, he got punched..:rolleyes:

It's full of dumb ass Texans, for a start. The unjustified pride for seconds.

because they have pride you can't stand them, got it, nite all.........:D

Unjustified pride, you fucking idiot. Please do try to follow along or at least pretend to do so.

ROFL

Oh my.

A coyote? What?

...

Are you serious?

Now THAT was funny LOLOLOLOL

I could always ask her for a do-over - minus the punch of course

One of the things I would, and will, want to see is when BIllary loses the election in 2008. It will be tremendous to see the liberals have a massive meltdown if they haven't already done so after the election this fall.

I hope to be here to see the Chiefs win SBXLI.

I saw the Chiefs win SBIV.

I don't necessarily care who shot Kennedy, and I don't care about the conspiracy theories about who might have been involved. Kennedy is still dead and all of the theories will not make him undead.

I was watching on TV when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.

I've read about Pearl Harbor and have been there on numerous occasions, I don't think first hand witnessing of the attack would make it any more real. I've conversed with about 15 of the guys that survived, their stories were real and told with great compassion for their shipmates that died.

I was there at the end of the Vietnam War.

I was watching the news when both shuttle disasters were reported.

I was near Silver Springs, MD when 9/11 happened and I watched the videos over and over, just like everyone else. I do not think being there would have added to the experience and rage that we all felt.

I don't care to know when I die, I just hope that I can keep clean and straight enough through my life to be acceptable into heaven.

I knew that when the towers started falling that there were many people inside that were going to die, I'm sure that they knew too. I don't think the knowledge did much for them in those last minutes. I think the people in the second tower really knew they were going to die when they saw the first tower go down, I'm sure they were in much the same state of mind.

Christ's death. Christ's birth.

Lenin being greeted in Petrograd in 1917. "Long live the world-wide Socialist revolution!" And the crowd screaming back in agreement.

Napoleon crowning himself.

D-Day

The Battle of Trafalgur and Admiral Nelson's death

yes

The miracle is that Jesus was not in his tomb three days after his death. His body was missing. He had resurrected. Rain Man, is making a joke that maybe a coyote just ate his body, and that's why it was missing. But that's not likely, because there was supposedly a big rock in front of the tomb.

Good joke still.

For me, the number one event I would like to witness would be the signing of the Decleration of Independence. Actually, all of the debate that took place amongst the delegates leading up to it would be fascinating as well.

Other events I wouldn't mind seeing -

Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty" speech

The Tet Offensive

The duel between Hamilton and Burr

The Gunfight at the OK Corral

I'll probably think of others later...


No, I do not want to know when I will die. Why ruin the surprise?

You'd be surprised, dude. Last place I worked I would get asked from time to time if we served fried chicken, I'd respond yes and point to the cfc on the menu. They would respond by saying, "No, not chicken fried chicken, FRIED chicken." They typically got a blank stare from me.

It would be amazing to sit in on the Yalta or Teheran Conferences...

Or Grant and Lee signing.

Or Lincoln being shot.

I would love to have been in the room when Jimmy Page worked out the intro to Stairway to Heaven

chicken fried chicken is just fried chicken that is supposed to look like chicken fried steak. I know it's really really gay, but i would hate to order fried chicken and it coming out like a tenderloin looking thing.

Or birth for that matter.

My eternally accurate 8 ball has indicated that your avatar is in fact erroneous.

I would go back and watch SB 4, and no.



That is all.

That 8-ball must be giving you quite the headache with all those big words it throws at ya. :p

ROFLROFLROFL

Why yes, yes it is. Bring on the Ibuprofen.:banghead:

For me a few dates in history since i am a historian. The first persons to cross the ice bridge from asia to america

My ancestor lord cromwell rule of england

The painting of the mona lisa

the murder of the czar family by lenin

Patton march to germany

have a few more but i'm tired right now.

There are two one-time-only-never-to-be-repeated events I'd like to see - 1) the creation of the universe and 2) the cheeves Super Bowl victory.

I'd like to witness the moment when lightning struck the clock tower sending the charge down the wire producing the jigawatts needed to propel Marty McFly back to 1984.

That would really be cool.

Fixed yer post. :D

i'd have to go with living in the time of jesus' ministry.
on a side note, i wonder what it would have been like to be receiving the original radio broadcast of "the war of the worlds".

I think you'd be disappointed.

I'd rather see Moses parting your skull with that rod.

Superbowl IV