Things that look like alternate history, but aren't

[Emperor Norton I]

Bela Lugosi is....


FRANKENSTEIN!!!!!

[Bexar]

The fellow on the right of this picture stuck me as a touch too paramilitary for a Klansman? Maybe an earlier militia movement?

And while on the subject of the South



National band of the Confederate States Army.


Anti Confederate Flag

EDIT: I meant to say from on the title

[Æsir]

"The Pirate Party of Germany, sitting in the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin (the Berlin state parliament), has insisted on the inclusion of "pony time" during sessions, in which an episode from the series is shown, an action that has displeased many of the other members in the Berlin parliament."

The original article, for our Germanophone members: http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/dlfmagazin/1630017/

[jkarr]

Originally Posted by Æsir

"The Pirate Party of Germany, sitting in the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin (the Berlin state parliament), has insisted on the inclusion of "pony time" during sessions, in which an episode from the series is shown, an action that has displeased many of the other members in the Berlin parliament."

The original article, for our Germanophone members: http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/dlfmagazin/1630017/

just hope our lizard overlords crush the bronies in the upcoming ponypocalypse

[Nietzsche]

Originally Posted by Æsir

"The Pirate Party of Germany, sitting in the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin (the Berlin state parliament), has insisted on the inclusion of "pony time" during sessions, in which an episode from the series is shown, an action that has displeased many of the other members in the Berlin parliament."

The original article, for our Germanophone members: http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/dlfmagazin/1630017/

..as much as I hate the pony phenomena, I want to hug each and every German Pirate-Party member who suggested this during sessions. I have a deep love & respect for that kind of insanity.

[oshron]

Originally Posted by jkarr

just hope our lizard overlords crush the bronies in the upcoming ponypocalypse

good luck with that; the bronies have the Apocalypse Ponies on their side

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIY41LrvMFQ

[Plumber]

Originally Posted by Orville_third

No, just a traveling Disney exhibition. Oddly, Disney has quite a few connections with Reagan...

It's not odd. There are only so many rich ultraconservatives in Los Angeles County, after all. Reagan was also associated with the even more conservative Walter Knott.

[Orville_third]

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx...g0o7o1_500.jpg

A prominent graffiti, repainted over the years on the Washington Beltway, approaching the Washington LDS Temple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_D.C._Temple
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_Dorothy
http://www.mormonstoday.com/011207/D...Temple01.shtml

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/ima...20-cropped.jpg

[AWKB]

This whole article, but specifically numbers 3 through 1.

[Sunny]

Originally Posted by Æsir

"The Pirate Party of Germany, sitting in the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin (the Berlin state parliament), has insisted on the inclusion of "pony time" during sessions, in which an episode from the series is shown, an action that has displeased many of the other members in the Berlin parliament."

The original article, for our Germanophone members: http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/dlfmagazin/1630017/

OMG! That doesn't just sound like alternate history, it sounds like something cooked up by the Onion (or another similar parody site). Unbelievable.

..as much as I hate the pony phenomena, I want to hug each and every German Pirate-Party member who suggested this during sessions. I have a deep love & respect for that kind of insanity.

Yes, indeed.

[Pischinovski]

guess who this is

[MissWhatsittoya]

KAISER WILHELM....

The Second

[Pischinovski]

guess where his beart is

it is here:
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on frankenstein:

[Marc Pasquin]

Originally Posted by Bexar

National band of the Confederate States Army.

31st division of what exactly ?

[Bexar]

In OTL, it was a US Army federalized National Guard division, composed of Floridians, Georgians and Alabamians.

[Æsir]

Due to the NASA presence in Houston, Texas law specifically allows absentee voting from space.

[jmberry]

He may have already been brought up, but I give the biography of the greatest congressman who ever lived.

[Thande]

Originally Posted by jmberry

He may have already been brought up, but I give the biography of the greatest congressman who ever lived.

You know you sometimes see politicians now and you think "This guy really should have been a 19th century politician but he was born in the wrong century?"

This is the other way around--that guy would fit in better nowadays than he did then.

[kevvy2010]

Originally Posted by Alternatehistorybuff5341

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiRfF...9D97AB95C2D568

What if Disney was Canadian?

Nope. Disney did World War II Propaganda shorts for both the USA and Canada.

I'm sure it was quite patriotic back then, but it just seems so cheesy now. Especially since it's quite obvious that they made this on a shoestring budget. They just copied and pasted scenes from already-created Disney cartoons and either poorly animated them to make it look like it was fresh, or made one or two changes to the original scene.

Originally Posted by Orville_third

I see your North Koreans and raise you bowling lanes in CHURCHES.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...ley/53424238/1

I have never seen this before. If my church had a bowling alley, I'd go every chance I could!

Originally Posted by Color-Copycat

A North Korean bowling alley. For the use of their privileged party elite, no doubt.

Hey, it's hard work trying to create an exact replica of Orwell's 1984. The guys need to unwind after a hard day's work of screwing people over.

Originally Posted by Orville_third

A touring exhibition from one President's library to another?

No, just a traveling Disney exhibition. Oddly, Disney has quite a few connections with Reagan...

http://d23.disney.go.com/news/2012/0...19_D23_FanFare

That's unsurprising since their backgrounds were both in entertainment, both shared similar beliefs, and both had a sense of self-importance.

[Alamo]

A timeline where Puerto Rico is a state? Nope, just a hyperbolic Drudge Report headline from the Republican presidential primary.




And here we see, as if trapped in amber, yet another news headline. This time it is more of the "Science marches ever-onward" variety.