He/She's B-a-a-a-c-k!

Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
If it could happen, what former world leader, now dead, would you want to come back, and why?

I vote for Good Queen Bess. She had a sense of humor and took no guff.
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  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    Edward V - just to put CCTV in his room in the Tower and see whodunnit.
  • Clement Attlee. Because we desperately need someone with both (mostly) the right ideas and the skill to implement them.
  • tclunetclune Shipmate
    Does Christ count?
  • Clement Attlee. Because we desperately need someone with both (mostly) the right ideas and the skill to implement them.

    Yes, and (although he never became Prime Minister), the late John Smith:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_(Labour_Party_leader)
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    Richard III - to see just how he got to keep a parking space for over 500 years. Actually, there's lot of questions I'd like answered, but I think that's the biggest.
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    Genghis Khan. But only for the fun of hearing Trump Supporters complain that he is too liberal.
  • DafydDafyd Shipmate
    edited March 4
    Keats. Mozart (Would you like to finish your Requiem, Herr Mozart?). Sappho. Dickinson. (How would you like your poems printed, Miss Dickinson?)
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    Dafyd wrote: »
    (How would you like your poems printed, Miss Dickinson?)
    A Splash of Ink - Not liberal -
    To stain the Page - therewith -
    My tiny Hand - to capture -
    For future Folk - a Gift -
  • Perhaps Chaucer, to write an updated Canterbury Tales?
  • King Alfred the Great, if only to discover whether he was actually as smart as some of the stories make him out to have been.
  • TelfordTelford Shipmate
    As monarchs go, I can't think of anyone better than Her Majesty.



  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    tclune wrote: »
    Does Christ count?

    Do you mean you want him to come back and wander around preaching again, or do you want him to have his Second Coming?
  • tclunetclune Shipmate
    stetson wrote: »
    tclune wrote: »
    Does Christ count?

    Do you mean you want him to come back and wander around preaching again, or do you want him to have his Second Coming?

    I was thinking "second coming," but it was a joke. I'm in no rush for the end times personally.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Perhaps Chaucer, to write an updated Canterbury Tales?

    Under the pseudonym of Will Rushton, he's already written the Can't be Worried Tales.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited March 4
    Telford wrote: »
    As monarchs go, I can't think of anyone better than Her Majesty.



    In case you hadn't noticed, she's Not Dead Yet...assuming you mean QE II?
    :wink:
  • TelfordTelford Shipmate
    Telford wrote: »
    As monarchs go, I can't think of anyone better than Her Majesty.



    In case you hadn't noticed, she's Not Dead Yet...assuming you mean QE II?
    :wink:

    Only because I sing the national anthem on a daily basis

  • NicoleMRNicoleMR Shipmate
    We need FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) again.
  • NicoleMR wrote: »
    We need FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) again.

    LBJ might be better at dealing with the current GOP.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    William IV.
  • Golden KeyGolden Key Shipmate
    Cleopatra.
  • SojournerSojourner Shipmate
    William IV.

    Why?

  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    Yes, please don't forget the "Why?" requested in the OP.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    He was a pretty decent chap, at least for a Hanoverian. He had a genuine career in the navy, was known for his dislike of ostentation and ceremony (his coronation cost a tenth of that of George IV), he was prepared to admit it when he was wrong, tried his best to work with his PMs, etc.
  • Sojourner wrote: »
    William IV.

    Why?

    I'll hazard a guess, and say that it's because of the major reforms of Parliament carried out during William IV's reign.

    In similar vein, bring back Oliver Cromwell. Not only did he *reform* Parliament, but he also abolished Christmas...
    :naughty:
  • SojournerSojourner Shipmate
    The only useful thing William IV did was stay alive till Victoria reached the age of 18, which prevented her stupid mother and her presumed lover Sir John Conroy running the show.
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    Cnut.

    Just for the fun of watching the Grauniad headlines.
  • Cnut.

    Just for the fun of watching the Grauniad headlines.

    :naughty:

    Just who is this King Tunc, anyway?

  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate

    Just who is this King Tunc, anyway?

    Good job I wasn't drinking tea!

  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    Cnut.

    Just for the fun of watching the Grauniad headlines.

    :naughty:

    Just who is this King Tunc, anyway?

    A misunderstood Dane.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited March 5
    Or possibly a Dean?
    *ahem*

    Coming a bit closer to modern-ish history, how about Mary II? Joint ruler with William III from 1688 until her untimely death in 1694. She seems to have been a popular figure, and carried out many royal duties whilst her husband was abroad.

    Alternative history is intriguing, and one wonders how England might have turned out had she lived long enough to succeed William III in 1702 (she would have been only 40 then), and had had children to succeed her.

    Why, we might never have ended up with the German usurpers...

    /slight tangent/

    A commemorative 50p piece was issued in 1994, to mark the 300th anniversary of her death, and I recall having to explain to one or two colleagues just who she was.
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    You mean WilliamanMary (from my favourite history textbook, Sellar and Yeatman), when the kingdom was ruled by an Orange?

    Well, I guess the USA have just had the Orange...
  • Yes, the tall, good-looking half of the Orange!
    :wink:
  • You mean WilliamanMary (from my favourite history textbook, Sellar and Yeatman), when the kingdom was ruled by an Orange?

    Well, I guess the USA have just had the Orange...

    Referring to that book shows your age, which is probably not A Good Thing. :smiley:
  • Jengie JonJengie Jon Shipmate
    Those
    You mean WilliamanMary (from my favourite history textbook, Sellar and Yeatman), when the kingdom was ruled by an Orange?

    Well, I guess the USA have just had the Orange...

    Referring to that book shows your age, which is probably not A Good Thing. :smiley:

    Those books are still in print and I think I have a first edition (my Dad bought it). So Sandemaniac is not giving his age away too much.
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    Are there any current shipmates under thirty? :hushed:
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Lyda wrote: »
    Are there any current shipmates under thirty? :hushed:
    I think @ECraigR is under 30.



  • Nick Tamen wrote: »
    Lyda wrote: »
    Are there any current shipmates under thirty? :hushed:
    I think @ECraigR is under 30.


    So am I if you use base 13 or above.
  • MooMoo Kerygmania Host
    Coming a bit closer to modern-ish history, how about Mary II? Joint ruler with William III from 1688 until her untimely death in 1694. She seems to have been a popular figure, and carried out many royal duties whilst her husband was abroad.

    I read a very interesting biography of her.

    Her education was limited to the three R's, except for theology which was taught at great length. She appears to have been born with a strong aptitude for common sense. In the face of little education, her common sense flourished and she frequently could see things that better-educated people could not.

  • Simon ToadSimon Toad Shipmate
    I'm trying to think of a leader who could drive India out of poverty. I don't know if Ghandi is the man. Its probably worth a shot.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    Marie Stopes would be the person for that. Yes, a eugenicist, but good on the birth control and an excellent businesswoman.
  • Moo wrote: »
    Coming a bit closer to modern-ish history, how about Mary II? Joint ruler with William III from 1688 until her untimely death in 1694. She seems to have been a popular figure, and carried out many royal duties whilst her husband was abroad.

    I read a very interesting biography of her.

    Her education was limited to the three R's, except for theology which was taught at great length. She appears to have been born with a strong aptitude for common sense. In the face of little education, her common sense flourished and she frequently could see things that better-educated people could not.

    She'd make mincemeat of the present *government*, I think...as Prime Minister, rather than as monarch, though, in these enlightened times.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Edward V - just to put CCTV in his room in the Tower and see whodunnit.

    I think it was either the Duke of Buckingham or someone at the behest of Henry Tudor, but I'm a bit of a Ricardian.
  • tclunetclune Shipmate
    Simon Toad wrote: »
    I'm trying to think of a leader who could drive India out of poverty. I don't know if Ghandi is the man. Its probably worth a shot.

    Like Christ, he'd probably try to convince the people that poverty is a virtue. ;)
  • MarthaMartha Shipmate
    Lyda wrote: »
    Are there any current shipmates under thirty? :hushed:

    I've just turned 40, and I definitely feel young around here.
  • PendragonPendragon Shipmate
    I am halfway through my biblical allotted lifespan.
  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate
    edited March 6
    Pendragon wrote: »
    I am halfway through my biblical allotted lifespan.

    In strength or otherwise? :p
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    My grandmother always held that one was as old as the age of your youngest child plus 25.
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    Pendragon wrote: »
    I am halfway through my biblical allotted lifespan.

    Methuselah's? :wink:
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