With a time machine and $1000 what would you go back and buy?

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With a time machine and $1000 what would you go back and buy?

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OK, imagine if you could be given a time machine and $1000, what would you go back and buy?

I would go back to 2000-01 and buy my fill of 440V Chinook's and Guntings...
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10 C95's.
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$1000 in Microsoft stock. :D
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Ankerson wrote:$1000 in Microsoft stock. :D
My thoughts exactly! Lol!

Maybe google too...

If we are talking about knives, I would say a Ti ATR and Ti Lum tanto folder with a Dodo, Ronin, and Yojimbo thrown in for good measure.
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Ankerson wrote:$1000 in Microsoft stock. :D
That's why your the man! :D
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Some of Ken Onion's early custom work.
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OK, the time machine only travels back to the SFO... ;)
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Scott cook Lochsa, Atwood UFO

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I'd travel back to 1967 and pick up four or five Rolex Submariners.
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I would get a patent on my time machine. The rest pretty much takes care of itself.
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dj moonbat wrote:I would get a patent on my time machine. The rest pretty much takes care of itself.
The government would steal your patent, build its own time machine and screw you over.
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I'd go back and buy 1000 bucks worth of stock in Walmart, McDonalds or Microsoft. :D
Then I could afford whatever knife I wanted today!
...oh you know why!
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captnvegtble wrote:The government would steal your patent, build its own time machine and screw you over.
LOL!

I would spend it on as many Dodos and Yojimbos I could get my hands on. (of course when they were on clearance :) )
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I'd go back and buy a bunch of T-Mags at full retail.
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100 copies of The Spyderco Story when there were closed out for $10.
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captnvegtble wrote:The government would steal your patent, build its own time machine and screw you over.
Nonsense. I wouldn't have to submit an application that was tied to the working DEVICE. Just enough to point the direction for imitators to try to horn in on the action.

In the meantime, the last coupla hundred years are my oyster; I'm funded with WAY more than $1K from people licensing the DEVICE.

In the interim, I can do all sorts of mischief and in the end, undo the original revealing of the device by slaughtering myself in the year 20xx (when I happened upon my time machine and patented said time machine) with a snazzy knife. Probably a Spyderco, but it depends on whether the time machine goes forward...might want a light saber.
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1000$ worth of winning lotto tickets!
ORANGE DODO NICEEEEEE

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If I had a time machine, I would have a LOT more than 1000 bucks!

In the spirit of the thread, I doubt I would go back and buy any Spyderco...I think the only better time to buy Spydercos than now is tomorrow (or whenever they release the next great thing).
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Original Manix, Starmate, micarta JD Smith, Ronin, micarta Calypso, CF Cricket
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unit wrote: I doubt I would go back and buy any Spyderco...I think the only better time to buy Spydercos than now is tomorrow (or whenever they release the next great thing).

Amen to that, brother. That was my thinking, exactly. Regardless of the great knives of the past, the designs and the materials are constantly improving.

Ken
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