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->''"Here's where the game could have been somewhat [[EdutainmentGame educational]]... but instead, it's a joke! For example, for [[UsefulNotes/GaiusJuliusCaesar Julius Caesar]], you're supposed to give him salad dressing, hur hur hur! For UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, you're supposed to give him a compact disc. Yeah. Let's not change history, by the way. [...] For UsefulNotes/JesseJames, an Uzi. You're going to give Jesse James a fucking Uzi?! You're going to give a notorious outlaw a more contemporary weapon! Yeah, just help him out! Might as well give, I don't know, [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Tepes]] an atom bomb?"''

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->''"Here's where the game could have been somewhat [[EdutainmentGame educational]]... but instead, it's a joke! For example, for [[UsefulNotes/GaiusJuliusCaesar Julius Caesar]], UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, you're supposed to give him salad dressing, hur hur hur! For UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, you're supposed to give him a compact disc. Yeah. Let's not change history, by the way. [...] For UsefulNotes/JesseJames, an Uzi. You're going to give Jesse James a fucking Uzi?! You're going to give a notorious outlaw a more contemporary weapon! Yeah, just help him out! Might as well give, I don't know, [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Tepes]] an atom bomb?"''
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-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''', on ''Film/BillAndTed's Excellent Video Game Adventure''

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-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''', on ''Film/BillAndTed's ''Franchise/BillAndTed's Excellent Video Game Adventure''
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->"You give them breech-loading guns now, they'll have atomic weapons by the seventeenth century. They'll have the capability to destroy their own planet before they're civilised enough to handle it!"

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->"You ->''"You give them breech-loading guns now, they'll have atomic weapons by the seventeenth century. They'll have the capability to destroy their own planet before they're civilised enough to handle it!"it!"''



->"Here's where the game could have been somewhat [[EdutainmentGame educational]]... but instead, it's a joke! For example, for [[UsefulNotes/GaiusJuliusCaesar Julius Caesar]], you're supposed to give him salad dressing, hur hur hur! For UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, you're supposed to give him a compact disc. Yeah. Let's not change history, by the way. [...] For UsefulNotes/JesseJames, an Uzi. You're going to give Jesse James a fucking Uzi?! You're going to give a notorious outlaw a more contemporary weapon! Yeah, just help him out! Might as well give, I don't know, [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Tepes]] an atom bomb?"

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->"Here's ->''"Here's where the game could have been somewhat [[EdutainmentGame educational]]... but instead, it's a joke! For example, for [[UsefulNotes/GaiusJuliusCaesar Julius Caesar]], you're supposed to give him salad dressing, hur hur hur! For UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, you're supposed to give him a compact disc. Yeah. Let's not change history, by the way. [...] For UsefulNotes/JesseJames, an Uzi. You're going to give Jesse James a fucking Uzi?! You're going to give a notorious outlaw a more contemporary weapon! Yeah, just help him out! Might as well give, I don't know, [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Tepes]] an atom bomb?"bomb?"''
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->''I have divulged metallurgy and tactics beyond your day; no man may threaten your rule.''
-->-- '''Van Kleiss to [[UsefulNotes/RomanEmpire Emperor Septimus Severus]]''', ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex''
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->"''I say we start the American Revolution -- a hundred and fifty years ahead of schedule!''"
-->-- '''Michael Stearns''', ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo''
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-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Time Warrior"

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-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Time Warrior"Warrior"

->"Here's where the game could have been somewhat [[EdutainmentGame educational]]... but instead, it's a joke! For example, for [[UsefulNotes/GaiusJuliusCaesar Julius Caesar]], you're supposed to give him salad dressing, hur hur hur! For UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, you're supposed to give him a compact disc. Yeah. Let's not change history, by the way. [...] For UsefulNotes/JesseJames, an Uzi. You're going to give Jesse James a fucking Uzi?! You're going to give a notorious outlaw a more contemporary weapon! Yeah, just help him out! Might as well give, I don't know, [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Tepes]] an atom bomb?"
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''', on ''Film/BillAndTed's Excellent Video Game Adventure''
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-->--[[http://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/27604v/historical_whatif_post_show_just_how_easy_it/ BreaksFull]], [[Website/{{Reddit}} /r/BadHistory]]

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-->--[[http://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/27604v/historical_whatif_post_show_just_how_easy_it/ BreaksFull]], [[Website/{{Reddit}} /r/BadHistory]]/r/BadHistory]]

->"You give them breech-loading guns now, they'll have atomic weapons by the seventeenth century. They'll have the capability to destroy their own planet before they're civilised enough to handle it!"
-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Time Warrior"
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->Easy-peasy I'm sure. Just describe this technology that you don't understand to people who don't understand it and bam! Instant industrial revolution, why didn't anyone else think of that?
-->--[[http://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/27604v/historical_whatif_post_show_just_how_easy_it/ BreaksFull]], [[Website/{{Reddit}} /r/BadHistory]]

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