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Oh, is that who that comes from? Turns out that Kahing bloke http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/offtopic/kahing wasn't so completely hatstand as we all thought at the time ('cos we're not so well-read as UM) :o

Heh, usually turns out that I've missed something really obvious when I post in a WWII thread (or any other kind of military thread, come to that), but here goes anyway: What I'm wondering is, in a TL where the Pacific WWII theatre has never happened, would the USN actually grow to anywhere...

Once those Muricans start yacking, you really can't shut 'em up! :D

Erm, we all do cricket in school, it's not only double-barreled in-breds. Indeed, Harold Larwood, a Notts coal miner, would have been ideal for training in use of grenades, except his ability to actually place one at the feet of a German would have been regarded as 'ungentlemanly'. :rolleyes:

Frank Burns: But Colonel, it's just Reader's Digest. Colonel Flagg: Not if you eliminate the third, fifth, and sixth letters, then it's Red's Digest, comrade.

Maybe this record gets re-released, and becomes the 'new sound' that wipes disco from the charts?

That's because we're not all the ASB-Police! Alternate History is a form of literature and fun, not a branch of science. Put it this way: There's a VERY old free story from Kim Newman about John Major still being PM in a 'Successful Sealion ' World, which is all obviously bullshit.... ...

Genuinely only days before? Then the greatest power the world has ever known, Federal USA, sees how helpless it is in the flood of a human wave of 1/2million bodies.....maybe this butterflies into "Y'know what? We're fucked in Vietnam - let's get the hell out of there right now!"

VJ showing his own sectarianism there - even though he's a Tory, he can't be too hard on Blair, because he's a tackem ;) We saw some magnificent rants from Veej about Fergie during his time as PM though. Especially that time in the election of '05 Ferguson was campaigning in the North East and...

"But are they 'one of us'? No, no, no!"

Oh crap, I think I shat my pants! The words "President Thatcher" is what kept me a loyal Monarchist for all these decades, they having the power to make me wake screaming in a sweat at night......don't do that to me! :eek: Phew, she's only going to be POTUS, that's alright then.....what a relief!

Ok, I'm gonna have to ask; Harry Turtledove was on The Simpsons? I had no idea he was so well known outside of AH circles. Or is this some other reference that I don't get? :confused:

"Phresh", like "Phat", goes back at least as far as the late-'80s Dance scene (ACEEEEEED!) in the UK, probably longer if originally imported from the US or Mainland Europe. Not that I was ever much of a rave-goer, preferring spliff to E, but there was one hell of a lot of the irritating little...

A momentous issue indeed! Hope you've still got it - "In 2004, a near-mint copy of The Flash #123 sold in a Heritage auction for $83,000."

I can't remember who it was, but somebody on a panel at a late '80s UKCAC said Alan Moore (post Swamp Thing but pre-Watchmen) had done a treatment for a revamp of J'onn J'onnz in an early Cold-War setting, but DC dropped it in favour of 'Jemm Son of Saturn'......a comics version of the guy at...

US forces aren't going to magically all turn into Captain America just because they're even more pissed off than OTL (indeed, will they actually even be any more fired-up? That kind of thing depends on your glands and bio-chemistry, there's a limit to it. Nor are they like Green Lantern and it...

Wasn't Daddy Bush pretty much screwed from the moment he did the "read my lips; no new taxes" just before bringing in a load of new taxes? (Same thing happened with the newly re-elected Tory UK govt, when Lamont shoved VAT through the roof barely before the caretaker had finished sweeping up in...

D'you know, I thought that was what you call someone who reads the bumps on your scalp, D'OH! :o

Oh gods, has anybody actually opened that thing up and read it? It's free, but worse than you can possibly imagine, must have been written in all of an afternoon. SPOILERS: I was already holding my sides at the Saudi-Iranian Muslim conspiracy, but now I've got to the bit where God himself...

Give the job of voicing this 'Move To Brum' promo-film to Casey Kasem rather than Telly Savalas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxZ1xn2ml10 (Co-incidence there's a Birmingham band called Strangle Kojak? I think not!)