I am getting ready to beam back to the 1740s. Am bringing my own toilet paper.
I will answer the questions that came in over the weekend upon my return. While I’m gone, can you please post links to the best blogging done about BEA this year?
Also, if YOU were beaming back to the American colonies in the 1740s, what would you bring?
time travel
my blackberry and a solar charger
Tampons and midol. Seriously!
A generator and lots of wire.
Advil and toothpaste!
Laurie:
I followed the Publishers Weekly pages re: BEA updates.
See http://www.publishersweekly.com/Community/BookExpo+America/49050.html
They made themselves very busy keeping in touch with their readers. (Or would that be “reader” as in.. me… since everyone else seemed to be there while I -read- about their fabulous life?) ;>
This is not the time or place for me to talk about my toilet paper obsession. {} Let’s put it this way. I give hotel housekeepers hefty bribes to keep my bathroom fully stocked.
You never know when you’re going to run out.
THAT would be my worst fear. Well that and a mouse in the room.
And for the record: No schmooze. Best brand ever? Scotts. Come check out my linen closet. You will see I put my money where my er, well, mouth is.
Are we done pouting yet? Is it safe to go back in the water? {}
-Pamela, who often wonders what people used in 1740 in outhouses… but not sure I want to know the answer…
I’m with lelah. If I have those, I can cope with the rest.
As many sets of eyeglasses as I could!
Dang, though, now I have to check about toilet paper in 1913. Sigh.
Pharmaceuticals and t.p.
Birkenstocks, TP, and a bottle of anti-biotics.
Penicillin.
A really well stocked first aid kit, and a lot of water purification tablets.
100 pounds of ground coffee.
Everyone has listed some really essential stuff — and I would like to add sunscreen and antihistamine.
What I’d bring:
Undergarments, toilet paper and fem pro for sure. And soap. Definitely nice-smelling soap.
I would definitely bring my own writing tools… I don’t think I could ever master the art of writing with a quill dipped in ink… and there is no way I could go without writing.
Ah! Yes… those would be very essential as well.
Tampons were my first thought too.
I’d bring a map leading me to freedom. Everything else is incidental.
Besides toilet paper? Shampoo, soap, deoderant, toothbrush & paste, eyebrow liner, a camera, and a decent pen and lots of writing paper. The penicillin and the coffee are great ideas. Maybe some dried fruit or GORP? And a way to get back.
USS Enterprise E
Yep.
1740s
I would bring a pen and a notebook or something like that. I would DEFINATELY like to write about my visit there.
Don’t forget the chocolate. (Cacao beans might’ve been worth their weight in gold back then.)
Hand sanitizer. Cotonelle wipes. Excedrin. Toothpaste. Sunblock. A camera.
-Susan
And endless supply of potable water. And air freshener.
Hmm…
Either
-computer (I’d go crazy without being able to write, but I guess I could find paper and a pen there, so)
-medication (dying would be kind of bad)
-toilet (because THAT’S going to fit in a suitcase, which leaves me with…)
-bug spray