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

Hemingway Jones

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Yeps said:
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. :)
 

noonblueapples

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Hemingway Jones said:
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

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noonblueapples said:
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.
 

reetpleat

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Yeps said:
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?
 

carebear

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Fletch said:
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.

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"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)

:D
 

ChadHahn

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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
 

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