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Jane R
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On the liberal Christianity thread in Purgatory, hatless posted quote:
If you were there on Easter morning with a video camera, what would it record?
Being slightly frivolous, my first thought was 'My thumb!'
My second was 'could there be a game in here somewhere?'
So here's another one... what would the camera record if you were
Standing next to Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar?
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Hedgehog
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Originally posted by Jane R:
Standing next to Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar?
After I moved my thumb out of the way, the camera would record all the pigeons flying around Nelson. They had to get their start somewhere!
What would it record at the fall of the Berlin Wall?
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Jane R
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I can't see anything except the backs of people's heads! I'll have to pass the camera to someone taller...
...ah, that's better. Now we can see the graffiti.
How about: Watching Jenny Geddes throwing the stool at the Dean of Edinburgh? I've always wondered if she really managed to throw it all that way...
(for those unfamiliar with Scottish history: Jenny Geddes )
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LeRoc
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My camera would record the after-church coffee. I'd really like to hear those conversations.
When Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church of Wittenberg
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jacobsen
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My camera would be waiting for the moment when he hammered his thumb - and what he said to mark the occasion.
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Schroedinger's cat
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I would be recording the choir-boys passing noted to each other.
Martin Luther King's "I have a dream speech"
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Hedgehog
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...As the camera records a psychology grad student paging through Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (while puffing on a cigar, of course).
Meanwhile, the video of Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address...
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roybart
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I would have arrived late and would be standing way in the back. My video would include occasional glimpses of tiny unrecognizable bearded men in dark suits, punctuated with closeups of the back of people's heads, especially those wearing wide-brimmed hats. There would be a certain amount of wobbling throughout.
The Assassination of Caesar
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roybart
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Sorry not to have made it clear that this is the Assasination of JULIUS Caesar.
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ArachnidinElmet
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...being welcomed by a bunch of Vikings.
How about Carter opening Tutankhamen's tomb?
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'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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Hedgehog
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Originally posted by Chapelhead:
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Originally posted by roybart:
The Assassination of Caesar
I'd get a rather blurry shot which might show a figure on a grassy knoll. Or might not.
Ah, yes! And then there is the old "magic dagger" theory....
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Jane R
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How about Carter opening Tutankhamen's tomb?
... the video unfortunately records what he said when the hot wax from the candle dripped on his fingers...
Meanwhile, at the Signing of the Magna Carta...
[ 19. June 2013, 22:19: Message edited by: Jane R ]
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Golden Key
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Napoleon cursing up a storm while bravely doing battle with an overflowing toilet. (Water...loo.)
Ok, so it probably would've been a chamber pot.
Evel Knievel jumping Snake River Canyon on his motorcycle.
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--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
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jacobsen
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I couldn't bear to watch!
Atlantis sinking
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Jane R
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The tidal wave was survivable; it was the earthquake caused by the Annunkai spaceships blasting off that made the island sink. Another mystery cleared up.
Meanwhile, a historic event is taking place in Pudding Lane - the filming of the very first episode of Can't Cook, Won't Cook. They've had to do rather a lot of retakes so they're running late, but shortly after midnight on Sunday 2 September 1666...
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