if you had a time machine..

[thunderlizard]

This sounds like the bit in The History Boys, where they act out a scene in a French brothel where all the clients make particular use of the subjunctive.

[MarillionFan]

Nope, an early thirties male that is studying german fulltime in between contrats and in the process of learning Conjunctive II grammar and sentence structure, i.e

IF blah blah blah I would..

Wenn ich ein Million Euros hätte, würde ich...

In which case your thread now makes perfect sense.

[Pondlife]

If I was in the Matrix, I would have taken the blue pill.

[OwlHoot]

What would you do?


A shameless plee in helping me complete my deutsch homework..

I'd go back to 1200 AD and open a savings account, with a deposit of a groat, in the Medici Bank.

Why didn't one of my stupid sheep-stealing ancestors think of that - It would be worth millions today!

[stek]

Nope, an early thirties male that is studying german fulltime in between contrats and in the process of learning Conjunctive II grammar and sentence structure, i.e

IF blah blah blah I would..

Wenn ich ein Million Euros hätte, würde ich...

Als das kind kind war
Ging es mit hangenden Armen
Then stuff about flowing into rivers and seas....

Wish I could remember it, was in Wender's film 'Himmel uber Berlin' - great movie.

Waht's the plural for 'bus'? It's not 'busen' - that caught me out....

[suityou01]

I'd go back to 1200 AD and open a savings account, with a deposit of a groat, in the Medici Bank.

Why didn't one of my stupid sheep-stealing ancestors think of that - It would be worth millions today!

It opened it's doors for the first time 197 years later.

[suityou01]

I'd go back to 1200 AD and open a savings account, with a deposit of a groat, in the Medici Bank.

Why didn't one of my stupid sheep-stealing ancestors think of that - It would be worth millions today!

And went bust 97 years later.

[thunderlizard]

I'd go back to 1200 AD and open a savings account, with a deposit of a groat, in the Medici Bank.

Why didn't one of my stupid sheep-stealing ancestors think of that - It would be worth millions today!

That would have been a Guelphy rate of interest.

[Pondlife]

If I was Gary Kildall I wouldn't have sent my wife to meetings with IBM*




* Not sure how much of this story is bollox.

[Sysman]

Waht's the plural for 'bus'? It's not 'busen' - that caught me out....

Busse

As for depositing some small amount of currency in a bank a few hundred years ago...

Nah, either the banks or the government would have found a way of declaring it a dormant account and whipping the money off you.