World War 1.1

[Thande]

Shamelessly stolen from the World War 2.1 thread...

So at noon tomorrow, the minds of the leaders of the major nations in WW1 are jumped into the bodies of our present leaders. Lloyd George becomes Blair, Wilson becomes Bush, Nicholas II becomes Putin, Wilhelm II becomes Merkel (!), etc...

Now what happens?

[Imajin]

What about Austria-Hungary? Is Franz Josef (or Karl?) copied into the bodies of the leaders of all the various successor states (Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Slovakia at least), or just the Austrian President?

[Flocculencio]

Yes! A Liberal Prime Minister!! :D

[Flocculencio]

What about Austria-Hungary? Is Franz Josef (or Karl?) copied into the bodies of the leaders of all the various successor states (Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Slovakia at least), or just the Austrian President?

<in unison> We are Emperor Franz Josef. Resistance is futile...

[Mike Stearns]

<in unison> We are Emperor Franz Josef. Resistance is futile...

And then they start fighting because they all hate each other. :p

[Thande]

I'd say just Austria.

But, for comedy value, Franz Ferdinand's spirit is resurrected and placed into ALL the members of the band Franz Ferdinand. :D

[PoorBoy]

I'd say just Austria.

But, for comedy value, Franz Ferdinand's spirit is resurrected and placed into ALL the members of the band Franz Ferdinand. :D

How about Franz Josef in Austria, Karl in Hungary, and various Hapsburg (or local) nobility in the other countries...

WOW...I can think clearly again! No more nagging headaches!!!

[Othniel]

Shamelessly stolen from the World War 2.1 thread...

So at noon tomorrow, the minds of the leaders of the major nations in WW1 are jumped into the bodies of our present leaders. Lloyd George becomes Blair, Wilson becomes Bush, Nicholas II becomes Putin, Wilhelm II becomes Merkel (!), etc...

Now what happens?
I forget, who was in charge of Italy at this point? Do we go by Prime Minster or King in that Case? Victor Emanuel, or the more involved PM?

[Straha]

Germany immediantly uses the nuclear weapons that its secretly made on the US.

[Ivan Druzhkov]

<in unison> We are Emperor Franz Josef. Resistance is futile...You think that's bad, Nicholas II is going to be come a 17-member hive mind. That's Russia, all of the former SSRs, Finland, and about 5/8ths of Poland.

I don't know about the rest of you, but thought of 19 Nicholas IIs makes me want to weep uncontrollably.

And not in joy.

[Zyzzyva]

Too bad this wasn't earlier. There aren't any countries (I'm looking at you, Germany and Italy) that could get schitzo leaders.

40.1 years war!

Blair = Charles I, Gordon Cambell = Cromwell
Chirac = Louis XIII, Villepin = Richeleu
Whoever's in charge in Sweden = Gustavus Adolphus
Angela Merkel = Totaly and utterly insane...
Ditto for Berlesconi

[Thande]

Gordon Cambell = Cromwell
Don't you mean Gordon Brown?

[ShadowCommunist2009]

Oh my god! One Nicholas II was bad enough....but 17 of them? All with hemophiliac tsarivitches? Egads! :'( Russia is a beautiful place...and all those places they conquered were beautiful in Russia's reflected glory...Peter the Great would spin in his grave and eat his own poop if Nicholas II was reincarnated in 17 bodies.

Though...they always say two are better than one, so how would 17 stack up?

Super scitzo crazy psycho East-European conclave all dedicated to fighting useless wars.

[Zyzzyva]

Don't you mean Gordon Brown?

I don't live in england. I get all my english news from reading the article headlines in the economist.

Be glad I didn't think your PM was still Major. :rolleyes: