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My understanding is the sea dragon was sold as a cost-saving device? Or do you just mean r&d and getting it off the ground? (No pun intended)

This show was an absolute dream! I watched it. I decided my spouse should watch it, and watched it again with her. I decided my best friend should watch it, and watched it a third time with him. I am visiting the in-laws in two weeks. I may have to watch it again.

No you’re correct, no disagreement. It’s an outright dismissal because I started a thread to (reasonably) talk about something specific without getting bogged down in the standard “you can’t do that on television” blather that frequently dominates the board. Most of us here are relatively...

Fantastic. Sounds like a thread you should start.

The ethnic breakdown is going to distinguish it from the inner-west to some extent, right?

Probably inevitable with a two-ocean navy, you figure?

Yes, you’re very smart. Please see my Very. First. Line.

Requesting imaginations to discuss another world more than discussions of what the problems are to achieving this. Imagine a world where sound cinema comes early, moving the bulk of production onto sound stages while the NYC metro area is still the center of the industry. Now imagine...

As a non-fan I absolutely agree. Hangover Day. Keep the bleary-eyed masses off the roads, save some lives.

A friend from Trinidad once explained to me that as soon as any town on the island had more than like ten new immigrants from a given cultural background, all of their holidays would be adopted universally by the town. It is objectively the best national trait I’ve ever heard tell of. And it...

Agreed. I assumed Australia but found no reference. Which poor locality only gets bbq and pancakes once a year? In any case, the Thanksgiving template is a good one. Some sort of Independence Day is another. A holiday for labor. Whatever your national specifics I’m sure we can come up with...

The stereotypical answer by now is that Gore loses to McCain in 2004, who loses in 2008 to somebody in the wake of the Great Recession. Obviously there are tons of facts to play with and mold, but this is what the play-doh looks like in the can.

Considering the bar as it stands is at: 1) Founding the country or 2) Leading us through a civil war... Yeah, probably for the best he’s not at that level.

Groundhog Day ADVANCE!!! Or in a world with an even more beloved FDR we make his birthday a holiday. But then the problem is that we know that football has a way of insinuating itself into other holidays, anyway. It could still be the biggest game of the year, but also just one part of a...

I'm not sure I agree that Kerry was picked as the nominee based on his Iraq stance. In fact his seeming inconsistency on the issue was a major feature of the campaign. If the people did want an evolving view (to be kind) on Iraq, then I can see how it may have benefited Kerry, and I can...

There was a bar near where I used to live called The Star and the Shamrock. It was...not very good. Perhaps we should let that serve as a metaphor.

I’m imagining comparisons being drawn to the sword & sorcery movies of the time coming out of the West. Perhaps further links would draw us to a sort of continuation or reinterpretation of the sword & sandal movies that came out of Italy in the 60s; it’s basically a similar idea, of showing how...

Most German customs were kept but renamed around WWI. I’ve never heard that Krampus was a casualty of WWI (though some Serbs would beg you to look at Frank Ferdinand, HIYO! I’ll be here all week.) So if for some reason we were still calling them tannenbaums, we’d just start calling them...

Well that could be your answer, then. Another tacky American import for the Brits to contend with! :winkytongue:

I came to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy pretty late for my age. I remember reading the part where the author describes the difference between the Guide and the Encyclopedia Galactica. In part: “In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the...