Monday, July 4, 2011

Back to the Future

26 years ago yesterday, the movie Back to the Future was released. It was the top-grossing film in 1985, staying on top of the charts for 11 weeks. Even today, it's still awesome. All of us have wished we had a time-machine DeLorean. Of course, there are some other things we wish were time machines too. Here's a list that traveled back in time to me from five minutes in the future:

8.8 Things that should be Time Machines
  • Our own car: 88 mph and all I got was a speeding ticket
  • PlayStation: It only does everything... except legitimate time travel. Oh, and securing your personal information
  • Lawn mowers: Many a day have I slaved behind this machine, wishing to go back to last week when the grass wasn't so tall
  • Macs: They're so happy and darn friendly- They have to be hiding something
  • The Death Star: A movie that needs to be watched over and over again, sort of like Back to the Future
  • Amelia Earhart's airplane: She didn't get lost on that last flight; she simply became the first person to circumnavigate the time stream
  • The "Back" button on web browsers: Sometimes we all want to go back and erase our mistakes
  • Skateboards: At the very least they need to be hoverboards, like in Back to the Future II
  • The Free Parking space in Monopoly: This one might be a bit difficult to understand. A lot of people put their own variations on what Free Parking means. Is it just a blank space? Is it a jackpot space? Or is it-

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