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I put something in the writers' thread here last night and got no replies. Was it that stupid?:(

What did you mean by "bad touch"? David Gerrold's story "The Kennedy Enterprise" posits that Kennedy's acting abilities are poor, which doesn't really fit the premise. If he's an actor, he would have taken lessons. Given his good speechifying in OTL, why assume he wouldn't be a good actor...

There was a TV movie about "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald." Unfortunately they cop out and he gets shot as he is being led back to the courtroom to hear the verdict. End of movie. Congress would probably quickly pass some legislation to deal with this.

I don't know why I didn't check out the lyrics...oh, well. :eek: There *have* been some pretty misogynistic cultures and governments out there, though. And the other verses of the Star Spangled Banner have to do with the British being the enemy in 1812.

THE AGE OF QUEENS Political soap opera about two rival princesses claiming the right to ascend the throne of England. They had been born on the same day, but which had been born first? Hilarious hijinks ensue as they try to track down/hide the truth. THE NUDE AND THE GAY In the 1890s, the...

"Shadow Matter" aliens, who manifest as blobs of absolute blackness, appear on Earth during the Reagan administration and secretly become allies of the US government, sharing their technology. It turns out that they are here to warn us about another group of "Dark Energy" aliens, who also will...

The shaman or other religious leader doesn't have to forbid all other food. He or she has a weird dream which is interprested to mean snails are special, and should get special treatment. They can be selectively bred for various traits which might have some significance for rituals...

Those sound nice. Maybe this is ASB but what if "To Anacreon in Heaven" were the national anthem of some nation? Which nation would it be? Or is that too frivolous for this thread?

The Weimar Republic survives, and one of its efforts is to revitalize its auto industry, and the Volkswagon is produced, and becomes very popular; it's nicknamed the Volk. As publicity for it, the government sponsors Volkswagon races in imitation of America's Indianapolis 500 races. Some...

This sounds interesting, and I hope there will be additions. I didn't try to read the whole timeline. B ut I wondered about the title--I recognize the Disney song. There's plenty of tears in this TL, but where's the laughter? Or am I being too literal? And what happens Star Trek...

A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! The name of two pubs, one at each end of the tunnel, after the tunnel is completed, at the end of Harry Harrison's novel. Big Brother. A pub in the 1984 timeline. 1984. The name of a pub where people go to celebrate after the downfall of Big Brother.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm sure Shinzon wouldn't have any use for Spock, but Spock would still have something to say and he'd be responding to the events of the movie, and there's no excuse...okay, maybe Nimoy didn't want to be in the movie, but I'm sure the (lack of) quality of the...

The Lead Zepellin...decorated in lead, with lead beer steins and the wall art is lead....in a timeline where Homo sapiens developed an immunity to lead, or a timeline where beer has ingredients which remove excess lead from the system... The Angry Blimp. The bar owner was ousted from his job...

I'd seen a novel in French in a library, and so I did a search for "Louis XVII" and got these results... Louis XVII By: Castelot, André. Published: 1968 Format: Book Louis XVII By: Castelot, André. Published: 1974 Format: Book Louis XVII; By: Favre, Jules, 1809-1880...

The Klingons and Tellarites both seem rather aggressive. I wish ST: Enterprise had done a decent first contact story with the Tellarites. How did we make friends with the Tellarites and not the Klingons? It's just as well in terms of storytelling, though. Imagine "Errand of Mercy" with...

I felt like linking to something besides Wikipedia... http://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/ But then here's Wikipedia anyway... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opabinia Opabinia had five eyes. It seems to me having eyes in the back of the head would be awfully useful for everybody. They...

Ahem.:):rolleyes: Did you mean overloads or overlords? More ingredients of Michigan-punk: Extreme weather, copper mines, the Mackinac bridge, liberal arts majors... Plus, The Twelve Days of Christmas in Michigan. http://12daysinmichigan.com/ I'd like to see stories in the Escher...

I wonder if the starfish design would result in beings with two or more heads, with the brain in the middle? Like Niven's Puppeteers. Bolosaurs were bipedal reptiles who lived about 300 million years ago.

Wikipedia's article on Pope John X mentions... "the defeat and death of Berengar in 924, through the combination of the Italian princes, again frustrated the hopes of a united Italy..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_X The source for that is the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. So...

THE THYME TUNNEL Based on the children's novel, The Secret Garden, a group of English children have adventures in the large garden of one of the children. The garden includes a tunnel made of thyme covering a framework of chicken wire. THE BRADY BUNCH: THE NEXT GENERATION A popular 80s...