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  1. Avoid the 2008 crisis

    The sub-prime mortgage loan bubble was a disaster waiting to happen. Maybe if the Fed and Alan Greenspan (Fed Chair from 87-06) had publicly taken it up as an issue, making warnings, and encouraging the bond rating companies to perform actual due diligence on the quality of the bundled bonds...

  2. Jane Seymour does not die in childbirth

    With a surviving Jane, more heirs, and no Anne of Cleves fiasco for a cover story ... what of Thomas Cromwell??

  3. Spartacus kills Crassus

    The Triumverate wasn’t for another 10 years. I doubt ITTL that one ever forms. There isn’t a powerful/rich enough alternate New Man or semi-disreputable patrician type to take Crassus place. Or would want/see the need to join with Pompey ... or would need to have Caesar as the balancer with...

  4. Led Zeppelin re-launch 1986 with Tony Thompson on drums

    Sure, the Stones made a lot money with the albums and tours post Tattoo You, but they were not the same genuises of their younger days. I got no issue with a never breaking up Zep or a Zep II being very commercially successful in the 80s and into the 90s. I'd have been right there buying...

  5. Led Zeppelin re-launch 1986 with Tony Thompson on drums

    Love me some Zep. (See Sean Bean introducing Zep to help save Westeros). Howver, there is a shelf life to genius level musical creativity. It varies, sure. The Stones were legendary from the late 60s to 1982; an extraordinary shelf life. But as Presence and In Through The Out Door...

  6. The Beast from the East – an Alternate NBA Timeline

    Sabonis was actually taken in the 86 draft with the last pick of the 1st Round by Portland. And despite not actually getting to play with Portland until his age 31 season (1995-1996) and playing only 7 NBA Seasons, by advanced metrics - Win Shares and VORP - Sabonis was the 6th most productive...

  7. [Roman Query] - Roman figures who could be as mythologized as Arthur?

    Quintus Sertorius?

  8. Who Would Have Been Better Alexander Haig or Donald Rumsfeld?

    What year does one become President?

  9. Malaya What If

    Flashman wasn't just about the wars, but political skullduggery, spying, romance, the upper class/royalty, and blatant racism too. I could see a modern Flashman descendant possibly involved with the Troubles/Brighton Hotel Bombing/Hyde Park Bombing. Perhaps a little too far back, but the the...

  10. A Boleyn England

    Anne is proving exceptionally fertile post age 35.

  11. What if the Rams win Super Bowl 36?

    Yes, the 9 win and 7 loss 2008 AZ Cardinals who scored one more point than they gave up in the regular season are certainly the poster child for high probability outcomes of what to expect in the playoffs

  12. What if the Rams win Super Bowl 36?

    And how much time does a Defensive Coordinator have to work one on one with an undrafted free agent?

  13. What if the Rams win Super Bowl 36?

    2004 - 8 and 8 record - scored 19th most points out of 32 teams / gave up 25th most points out of 32 teams 2005 - 6 and 10 record - scored 11th most points / gave up 31st most points 2006 - 8 and 8 record - scored 10th most points / gave up 28th most points 2007 - 3 and 13 record - scored 28th...

  14. What if the Rams win Super Bowl 36?

    Thanks for the rules era clarification. Too much recency bias on my part, clearly. Still, the basic idea is accurate. In order to support the super star salaries on a team and remain competitive, cheap quality players need to be found and the draft is usually the best way to do it. Few are the...

  15. What if the Rams win Super Bowl 36?

    About nothing changes. They had already won the Super Bowl after the 99 season. So I guess they earn a little cred as a Dynasty of sorts; bonus point for winning it a 2nd time in 3 years with a different coach than their first time. The Rams had a great 5 year run from 1999 through 2003. 97 -...

  16. Top Tier Losing Generals/Leaders

    what is the definition of a losing general? I have a very hard time calling Napoleon a losing general. Or Robert E Lee. or Hannibal. Sure, there sides ultimately lost the wars, but with the significant number of battles in the win column vs the small number in the loss column??? Now an Arch...

  17. AHC: A large-budget and well made adaptation of Robert E. Howard's "Conan" is filmed in the 50s or early 60s

    If its not too late in the late 50s, before he became a star, I could maybe see Paul Newman as a merry scoundrel of a Mouser. But if not him, I would go with Clint Walker's Dirty Dozen Alum ... John Cassavetes as a darker Mouser. Both Newman and Cassavetes were in the 5'8" to 5'9" range, but...

  18. AHC: A large-budget and well made adaptation of Robert E. Howard's "Conan" is filmed in the 50s or early 60s

    In best Sean Connery accent, “The name is Conan ... Conan the Barbarian”

  19. If John Lennon had lived?

    Paul certainly put out more music than John in the 70s. Wings put out like 8 albums. And John or John/Yoko put out 6? And nothing for four years (1976-1979). Paul put out 5 solo albums in the 80s. He had one #1 song, Ebony and Ivory; which reached #1 for reasons having little to do with how...

  20. Alas, no. I have a once a week D&D session on Roll20. That is the limit of my online “gaming.”

    Alas, no. I have a once a week D&D session on Roll20. That is the limit of my online “gaming.”
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