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What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th cen... - 3/11/2014 6:28:50 PM   
aaatoysandmore

 

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Status: offline 		Continuing on with our conversation about the past and how we could deal with it. Considering what you do for a living now what would you have been back then with hardly any schools or colleges to goto. Of course there were a few but only the elite got to goto them. So, what would you have done? I'd be interested in what Iain and Erik would have done or been.
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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 6:34:02 PM   
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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 6:38:39 PM   
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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 6:49:31 PM   
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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 6:58:00 PM   
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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 7:02:28 PM   
aaatoysandmore

 

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Same as now - International Lover.


Don Juan eh?

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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 7:02:45 PM   
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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Same as now - International Lover.



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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 7:05:21 PM   
aaatoysandmore

 

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Status: offline 		I just have one other question. Who would have been a janitor back then. (You ever see the Black Knight?)

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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 7:09:58 PM   
TulliusDetritus


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Status: offline 		A Condottiero (leader of a band of mercenaries) serving various lords in Central and North Italy seems a lot of fun. But in the end I suspect I would end up as Wolfe's "associate", selling er... those things hanging

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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 7:10:44 PM   
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ORIGINAL: aaatoysandmore

I just have one other question. Who would have been a janitor back then. (You ever see the Black Knight?)



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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 7:50:50 PM   
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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 8:00:30 PM   
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ORIGINAL: rogo727

Who's your idol then Ben Franklin?
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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Same as now - International Lover.


warspite1

Was Franklin a lover of international repute then?


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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 8:01:15 PM   
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ORIGINAL: aaatoysandmore


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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Same as now - International Lover.


Don Juan eh?
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Nope. War Spite with the 15-incher.


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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 8:20:26 PM   
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ORIGINAL: warspite1


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ORIGINAL: aaatoysandmore


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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Same as now - International Lover.


Don Juan eh?
warspite1

Nope. War Spite with the 15-incher.



Is that Mrs Warspite1 I hear laughing in the background?

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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 8:33:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		Franklin admitted to 17 children from various women.

I have read greater #s though.

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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 8:40:20 PM   
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ORIGINAL: shunwick


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ORIGINAL: warspite1


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ORIGINAL: aaatoysandmore


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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Same as now - International Lover.


Don Juan eh?
warspite1

Nope. War Spite with the 15-incher.



Is that Mrs Warspite1 I hear laughing in the background?
warspite1

Yes.....


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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 8:40:36 PM   
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ORIGINAL: sulla05

Franklin admitted to 17 children from various women.

I have read greater #s though.
warspite1

Noob


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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 9:38:38 PM   
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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 10:34:54 PM   
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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Same as now - International Lover.


Brilliant.

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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 10:43:05 PM   
Lützow


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Status: offline 		As they didn't need programmers back then, I had been a lord, spending my time with tournaments and joining campaigns and crusades. Alternatively, if not highborn, a man-at-arms.

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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 10:44:49 PM   
Gilmer


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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 10:49:04 PM   
rodney727


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ORIGINAL: warspite1


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ORIGINAL: rogo727

Who's your idol then Ben Franklin?
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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Same as now - International Lover.


warspite1

Was Franklin a lover of international repute then?




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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/11/2014 10:55:10 PM   
british exil


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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/12/2014 12:28:26 AM   
Agathosdaimon


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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/12/2014 12:56:52 AM   
Twotribes


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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/12/2014 1:53:18 PM   
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Same as now - International Lover.


Remember, my good sir-Penicillin won't be discovered for centuries yet!

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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/12/2014 1:55:44 PM   
Chickenboy


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Status: offline 		The 'professional' trades, I reckon. Horse tender, shepherd or other animal husbandry-related profession. Nothing glamorous.

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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/12/2014 2:16:24 PM   
Anguille


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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/12/2014 2:28:53 PM   
Curtis Lemay


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Status: offline 		Assuming I made it through child mortality, I probably would have been burned at the stake.

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RE: What would your job have been in the 1500's to 20th... - 3/12/2014 3:56:26 PM   
Zap


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