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  1. AHC: A Century of Overweight Presidents

    Inspired by this thread, your challenge is to make a list of 100 years of US presidents who were overweight. The 100 years will run from 1912 (when our most obese president, Taft, left office) to 2012. Rules: 1) These are public figures who could have reasonably been president and were...
  2. Pop Culture WI: Jeopardy! is Zerg Rushed?

    As you may or may not remember, in 2004 a fellow named Ken Jennings had a 74-game winning streak on the syndicated quiz show Jeopardy!, earning the show national attention for a time and making Jennings a minor celebrity. Jennings' streak was ended by a lady named Nancy Zerg, who was promptly...
  3. AHC: Change '50s fashion?

    The challenge is as follows; to create a series of PODs where this pic from 1914 is an accurate depiction of 1950:
  4. AHC: Preserve the Bottleneck Free State?

    So, a few days ago, I learned of the existence of the Bottleneck Free State, a short-lived nation created after WWI by a clerical error: The challenge is to find a way for the Bottleneck Free State to survive to the modern day.
  5. Pop Culture What If: "Werewolf of London" successful?

    So, a few minutes ago, I was reading this review of Werewolf of London, the first proper werewolf movie; naturally it differs in a great many ways from the "standard" werewolf mythology. At the end of the review the following comment is made: So, what say we explore that premise?
  6. (pop culture) ICWI: Despite Marvel Buy, Disney Still Confident In Gargoyles

    Ever since Disney bought Marvel awhile back, every one's been wondering what that means for their own superhero-y universe, the long-running Gargoyles franchise. Rumors have been rife that the buy indicated that Disney had lost confidence in the aging franchise, and was ditching it in favor...
  7. ICWI: DC and Marvel Merge

    Just heard that the FTC or whoever handles this stuff has decided that the proposed merger between DC Comics and Marvel Comics does not violate antitrust laws and can go ahead. Do you feel this was the right call by the govenrment? Do you feel that the merger makes sense for the two companies...
  8. AHC: Save "John Carter"

    So, as you may know, the film John Carter was one of the worsts flops in history. From what I've been given to understand, this had as much or more to do with various production issues (The director never having worked in Live Action before, the same director believing the franchise had the...
  9. Pop Culture AHC: Buffy the Vampire Slayer PoDs

    What follows are a list of seven things (with the occasional "bonus"), one per season that were planned for the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, that went differently for various reasons. The challenge, is to extrapolate how each of them would have affected the course of the series. Please note...
  10. AHC: No Mafia Dominance

    In the 1920s, there were a diverse array of ethnic organized crime syndicates in the United States. But for most of the 20th Century, it has been the Italian mob, the Mafia, which has dominated, with their erstwhile competitors reduced to footnotes, to the point that, as it declined, many of the...
  11. AHC: Jewish India

    Yeah, so while making my way through the Countries ISOTed To the 'Wrong' Place Map Game, I was for some reason reminded of the short story "Measureless to Man", wherein Genghis Khan converted to Judaism and Kublai Kahn set about creating a new Temple. This got me thinking of the Kaifeng Jews...
  12. Plausibility Check: No Hilter=3.5-sided Cold War, with twist

    I have this vague idea (of which nothing may come) for a time travel story. The specific details don't matter, but I have this idea in my head that the story's Time Police or whatever were created after someone went back in time to prevent WWII by eliminating the German leadership...and...
  13. WI: Philip Wylie Sues Over Superman

    So, I recently learned that Philip Wylie, author of the classic science fiction novel Gladiator, one of the inspirations for Superman considered suing the creators and publishers of the Man of Steel for plagiarism shortly after the character's debut, but decided not to, because A: the creators...
  14. Pop Culture WI: Disney's Superheroes

    As you may or may not know, in the '90s, Greg Weisman, creator of Gargoyles, one of the finest animated series' to come out of the United States, planned to make it the centerpiece of a collection of super-hero-esque shows; essentially giving Disney it's own version of the Marvel and DC...
  15. AHC: Save the Soaps!

    As some of you may be aware, the last few years have been pretty rough on soap operas, with soaps being canceled left and right. There are a number of reasons for this trend, of course; soaps can be expensive, most women work during the daytime hours, young girls don't watch 'em with their moms...
  16. AHC: Make AH Mainstream

    With all the various pop culture threads running about, I'm astonished no one has attempted to postulate a TL wherein alternate history fiction is considered "mainstream" instead of a subset of science fiction that legitimate authors occasionally dip their beaks into.
  17. WI: Rin Tin Tin Wins Best Actor

    I'm sure we've all heard how Rin Tin Tin was the actual winner of the first Academy Award for Best Actor, but it was given to Emil Jannings out of fear of the newly invented Oscars seeming ridiculous. This is in fact a myth...but let's say that Rinty did manage to win it. What would be the fallout?
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