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to: JOE MACKEY
from: JIMMY ANDERSON
date: 2016-08-20 17:17:00
subject: Time travel (was: Re: Boo

-=> Joe Mackey wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

 JM>   I've always been interested in time travel.
 JM>   I have noticed reading history an event will often hinge on one small
 JM> item that the good guys/bad guys did or didn't do which set off a
 JM> series of events that changed history.
 JM>   Two that come to mind are Napoleon at Waterloo who had a minor (in
 JM> the scheme of things) physical problem the took him out of command for
 JM> a short period of time.  The other is Hitler at D-Day where he gave
 JM> orders a day or so before he was NOT to be disturbed for ANY reason for
 JM> a couple of days and the generals didn't know what to do.  Disturb him
 JM> and risk problems, or overstep their authority and do something on
 JM> their own, since Adolph was micro-managing the war at that point?

Ah - the old butterfly effect - or maybe bigger than a butterfly. :-)

Have you read 11/22/63 or watched the Hulu Original? Good stuff!

 JA> ... A mind is a terrible thing to ugh...  I forgot...

 JM>    Old tag line from way back:  A waist is a terrible thing to mind.

LOL - yep - I remember that one too!


... Auto correct has become my worst enema.
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