Things that look like alternate history, but aren't

[Beedok]

Originally Posted by TurkishCapybara

From where I am they are. I don`t know the Beedokan dialect.

I did not know those things beside the road are called gutters.

Road Gutter

also "eavestrough" is what we call them up here for the house roof thing.

[Orville_third]

A Standard Oil station in Las Vegas, Nevada, not long after Standard bought out their old subsidiary, Chevron..

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...gasstation.jpg

A different, more traditional logo was used on this former BP station, which Standard took over after the Deepwater Horizon disaster and subsequent legal action.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...darddurand.jpg

[Color-Copycat]

An odd selection of Italian wines.

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by Color-Copycat

An odd selection of Italian wines.

What the fuck?

[Marc Pasquin]

Originally Posted by metastasis_d

What the fuck?

funny, I would have thought they would have tried to fill a beer niche market with these labels instead. Guess even nazi apologists have cheese and wine soirées. *White* wines of course.

[Zajir]

On that not wine bottles bearing the image of Pope John Paul II, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, V.I. Lenin, Iosif Stalin and Antonio Gramsci.

[Orville_third]

Harold Ford in his failed campaign to become the Confederacy's first African-American senator.

[Nietzsche]

Originally Posted by Marc Pasquin

funny, I would have thought they would have tried to fill a beer niche market with these labels instead. Guess even nazi apologists have cheese and wine soirées. *White* wines of course.

That was terrible and you should feel terrible.

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by Zajir

On that not wine bottles bearing the image of Pope John Paul II, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, V.I. Lenin, Iosif Stalin and Antonio Gramsci.

The Marx wine looks to be Red.

[Thande]

From Wikipedia's article about Brooks's gentleman's club in London:

The gaming rooms used to be one of the main attractions. At several tables in one, gentlemen would stake fortunes on whist and hazard. Gambling all night was common; all day and all night, not unheard of. When the stakes far exceeded any ordinary expenses, all the club accounts were commonly deducted from winnings, so that no bills were rendered to members. Numerous eccentric bets were and are made in the Brooks's betting book.

One extraordinary entry from 1785 is "Ld. Cholmondeley has given two guineas to Ld. Derby, to receive 500 Gs whenever his lordship f***s a woman in a balloon one thousand yards from the Earth."[1] Members' gaming, such as at backgammon, continues today, but somewhat less extravagantly.

[metastasis_d]

I love Backgammon!

[LostCosmonaut]

US Army Submarine, or Beatles Music Video Prop?

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by LostCosmonaut

US Army Submarine, or Beatles Music Video Prop?

Why would the US Army use a submarine?

[BriefMortal]

Originally Posted by metastasis_d

Why would the US Army use a submarine?

Because no one would see it coming.

[Iori]

Originally Posted by metastasis_d

Why would the US Army use a submarine?

Well, they did originally have Fighter Planes and Bombers until the Air Frce was split off from them, sooo.

[LostCosmonaut]

For record, this is on display at the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville.

[Iori]

Originally Posted by Orville_third

Harold Ford in his failed campaign to become the Confederacy's first African-American senator.

Wait, he's black?

[simonbp]

It's a shame that they (recently) repainted it that puke brown color. It used to be all yellow with a big black "US ARMY" on it, presumably to annoy any USN ships is the vicinity.

The Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA, based in Alabama, get it?) itself is pretty worthy of the thread. It's official mission was to provide tactical nuclear weapon devlivery systems, but since von Braun was in charge, ABMA spent about half its time on crazy blue-sky projects. By the time it was abolished, it had launched the first US satellite (with their Army counterparts at JPL), built the first lunar launch vehicle (again with JPL), build the ground-test version of the Saturn I, and designed an entire goddamn moonbase about launches with Saturn I. Between AMBA and JPL, the US Army had by far the most impressive pre-NASA space program.

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by LostCosmonaut

For record, this is on display at the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville.

Thanks for the answer.
Crazy shit.

[Martin23230]

Originally Posted by LostCosmonaut

For record, this is on display at the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville.

Really? Drat, I should have recognised that. I guess it wasn't there when I was, I spent plenty of time looking around for a week. And I would guess there would have been at least some people who would have recognised it as a Beatles Submarine had we seen it.