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I think Rugby League might suit the US better than Rugby Union, especially if you can get it to take hold in places like Boston or Pittsburgh.

That's obviously the easiest answer to this. More recent ideas would be (as has been mentioned already) butterflying away the NFL / AFL merger. And then, if the player's strike in the 80s ends up being longer and more damaging then that might make a difference. I also like the idea of...

I'm reminded of Bob Monkhouse's posthumous prostate cancer awareness ad.

Kurt Cobain wise, I think Nirvana were about done by the time he died. They may well have made one more album together, but Dave was already writing stuff for what became Foo Fighters by then (IIRC some demos of that were recorded at the same session that produced You Know You're Right, when...

Given the line from Imagine in the previous update, why does this one put me in mind of a different John Lennon lyric? Spoilered in case I am inadvertently correct:

The other reference I spotted in this update is the line "nothing to kill or die for", which is from Imagine by John Lennon, which has a similar theme (without the bombing).

Interesting, or lunatic? You decide. :p

It was more like 150 years, IIRC.

True. i do wonder if at the time any Roman scholars or philosophers or whatever actually considered, from a theoretical point of view, that there might be land on the other side of the Atlantic. I assume we would have found records of it if they did, but you never know.

Of course if they do find out that there's land to the west then it might spur improvement in shipbuilding.

There is some (slightly tenuous) evidence that the Romans might have had one or two ships end up in S.America. Obviously them getting home is unlikely. And as Lalli said, I'm not sure they would necessarily want or need to expend the effort to actually colonise the Americas at that point in...

Shirley is definitely a reasonable choice.

I actually think Rodman is the most likely to try to run for office. He'd fail, badly, but he seems the most likely to randomly try. I don't think anyone is truly "Apolitical", there are just people who don't publicly show their politics because they want to avoid arguments (cf: Swift, Taylor).

Now I want Randy Johnson, John Rauch or Shaquile O'Neal to run for office (6'10", 6'11" and 7'2" respectively...) Actually, Shaq as a hipster celebrity president is an interesting thought.

Agreed, i like election night TLs of any stripe.

Very cool TL. Why do I get the impression that this is going to come down to a Florida 2000 type situation...

Good news! I will buy it at some point. In relation to the bold, it make me wonder if there have ever been two novels with the same title by different authors with the same name. Novels with the same name arent in themselves uncommon (there are I think 6 or so called "Night Watch").

Yeah, there would certainly be outbreaks of warlordism.

One thing they could have done would have been to booby trap the dam with demolition charges as a contingency for if Mosul looked like falling.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.