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   Gweedo Murray said, about 1 year ago

   Excelsior!

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   runar said, about 1 year ago

   I’ve often thought that smuggling technology back in time could be profitable. Imagine - take a bunch of obsolete laptops back to 1985, sell ‘em for $20,000 apiece, put the money in the bank, then return to the present and withdraw it with interest.

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   Ray C said, about 1 year ago

   Good plan, as long as you installed Linux as the OS. Windows would try to check the web for registration, fail, and shut down the machines.
   I’d go a month into the future, check the stock market for the biggest gains and/or losses, and act accordingly. No problems with patents and copyrights then. Of course, you have to have some money to start with…

4. 

   ANM238 said, about 1 year ago

   [quote]…Of course, you have to have some money to start with…[/quote]

   Which brings us back to the laptops ;-)

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   fwdixon said, about 1 year ago

   Forget the stock market, get the racing results.
   Knowing the winner of every race could turn $100 into millions over the course of a month.
   Ditto for sports scores.

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   zenturtle said, about 1 year ago

   Go to the past, buy collectibles like Babe Ruths rookie card and Action Comics 1. Bring them back to the present in mint condition and sell them for millions!

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   Silverpearl said, about 1 year ago

   How the “get rich quick” schemes increase. I would have bought property that would later be bought by Bill Gates.

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   bkharvey said, about 1 year ago

   Haven’t you people learned anything from Back to the Future?! Never mess with time you are only asking for trouble.

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   rhyno86 said, about 1 year ago

   That takes too long. On Thursday, go back to Wednesday with the winning Powerball numbers.

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    3pianists said, about 1 year ago

    The only problem with stealing technology from the future is that you have to first invent a time machine…

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    txmystic said, about 1 year ago

    3pianists says:

    The only problem with stealing technology from the future is that you have to first invent a time machine…

    No you don’t, you just need to turn your transmogrifier upside-down…

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    Wildmustang1262 said, about 1 year ago

    Becoming a rich makes the person a happy? No, I think not!

13. 

    shasneha said, about 1 year ago

    i want to go to past,calvin y future go to past

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    gecko42 said, about 1 year ago

    txmysticPro says:

    3pianists says:

    The only problem with stealing technology from the future is that you have to first invent a time machine…

    No you don’t, you just need to turn your transmogrifier upside-down…

    You don’t even need to turn the transmogrifier. Just fool around, until a time-machine appears out of thin air right in front of you. Then use it to travel into future, when it’s already invented. Steal the machine and send it back to the past of the future (the present) (that’s crucial. The plan wouldn’t work without it). Now (what is then) you would have one time machine left in the future, to travel with …

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    attyush said, about 1 year ago

    I’d rather be rich and miserable…godspeed Calvin

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    lennyrules said, about 1 year ago

    Ha! Calvin has the right idea! dumb tests…

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    Jogger2 said, about 1 year ago

    I would like to go into the past, and buy a car that would be a collector’s item today. But, how would I pay for it? I don’t think the people in the 1940’s or 1950’s would accept money from the year 2003.

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    longtimecomicsfan said, about 1 year ago

    If I went to the future, I’d want to write down the winning super-mega-jumbo-jackpot lottery numbers

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    Requin said, about 1 year ago

    Wildmustang1262 says:

    Becoming a rich makes the person a happy? No, I think not!

    It makes Calvin happy. ;)

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    Mowgli-Chiara said, about 1 year ago

    txmysticPro says:

    3pianists says:

    The only problem with stealing technology from the future is that you have to first invent a time machine…

    No you don’t, you just need to turn your transmogrifier upside-down…

    here at the office ROFL and everyone looking at me… LOL

21. 

    Ray C said, about 1 year ago

    Do you suppose that’s already happened? Somebody thought of it first?
    How else do you explain the sudden appearance of the Salad Shooter?

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    WestwoodGryphon said, about 1 year ago

    Go to the future, steal an aced test, copy answers, ?????, PROFIT!

23. 

    Burgundy2 said, about 1 year ago

    I forget who said it, but…”Money might not buy happiness, but buys a more pleasant form of misery”.

    Or you can go with Smash Mouth: “I want to be a millionaire one day/so I know how it feels just to give it away…” or something like that…

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    mrprongs said, about 1 year ago

    But you can’t present it without info on how to build it.

    “I’d go a month into the future, check the stock market for the biggest gains and/or losses, and act accordingly.”

    I’ll save you the trip. They all drop in worth.

    “Forget the stock market, get the racing results. ”

    And your dad’s archenemy will marry your mom and rule the world.

    Time Travels easy. Copy the instructions on how to build a time machine back in time, copy them, build it, send back the info, then travel through time to get the instrucitons to begin with, then whenever.

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    Terry1844 said, about 1 year ago

    actually I’d go to 1985….
    trade each laptop for 1 kg of platinum at .99999 pure or 33 gold Krugerrand’s per laptop… put it in a safe deposit box only to be opened by my key…

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    Trux4You said, about 1 year ago

    I read a story once about people taking AK47’s back in time to the Confederate Army. Made for some interesting fantasy.

27. 

    cnkue said, about 1 year ago

    Trux4You
    “I read a story once about people taking AK47’s back in time to the Confederate Army.”

    That was GUNS OF THE SOUTH by Harry Turtledove. Great book!

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    Stuart Gathman said, about 1 year ago

    I once dreamed I was sitting at a piano with a fascinating piece of music in 11/8 time on it. I played it in the dream - then when I woke up, I remembered it!
    http://gathman.org/music/psalm_58.m3u

    Another time, a dreamed of a day of school. When I went to bed, I woke up - and everything happened exactly like in the dream - like in “Groundhog Day”.

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    Beth Yard said, about 1 year ago

    go to the past, invest a penny in the first compound intrest saving account, come back, instant millions!

30. 

    missmoo said, about 1 year ago

    How do I get Calvin & Hobbs to go directly to my daily email?

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    Dadof6boys said, about 1 year ago

    Well I would go forward make sure that the Rays win the series then go back to the beginning of the season and put money down on them at 100 to 1 to win the Championship

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    txmystic said, about 1 year ago

    WestwoodGryphon says:

    Go to the future, steal an aced test, copy answers, ?????, PROFIT!

    I think the underpants gnomes’ business model was recently added to case studies in B-school, hence the current financial crisis, yuk yuk yuk