A complex Triple Blind WI challenge...

Thande

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More creative writing than AH as such.

I sometimes get a little annoyed by the 'As You Know Bob' syndrome in DBWI threads, in which the first poster says something like 'so what did you do when the Imperial Japanese invaded America in 1943 after Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was of course a very unsuccessful president, was assassinated in 1936' or whatever. They give levels of detail which you would never really give in-context because you would assume the reader already knew.

So, based on that, here's the challenge: it's a triple-blind what if. In other words, it's a DBWI scenario but written by people from an ATL themselves...and the scenario in question is, of course, OTL.

So describe the recent history of OTL as though it was a DBWI thread, for example 'so what did you do in the war on terror which started after the Al-Qaeda attack on New York in 2001?' etc.

Go!
 
I don't think you understand what I'm getting at here.
I think I do.
This ATL has different partys, and different countrys of origin for the Terrorists.
They wouldnt guess OTL exactly, and there would be different politicos in their world, and they would imagine them or someone similar in what to them is an ATL. Their experences would rub off on the DBWI they make.
 

Thande

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I think I do.
This ATL has different partys, and different countrys of origin for the Terrorists.
They wouldnt guess OTL exactly, and there would be different politicos in their world, and they would imagine them or someone similar in what to them is an ATL. Their experences would rub off on the DBWI they make.

Oh, right.

Well yeah, we can do that too.

But I meant more about unrealistically info-dumping in the middle of a sentence so it sounds unnatural.
 
My troops were the first ones into Persia. I've retired now, but my troops are still there in that quagmire...its just like Siam.
 

Jasen777

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WI the U.S. had attacked Iraq?

or

WI the U.S. had attacked Iraq over the allegations of them having WMD's which proved to be false and even though this would mean going in without the support of the U.N. security council, in 2003?
 
Here's my stab ar it...

What were your thoughts last February during hte democratic primary race when Clinton and Obama were still neck in neck in the delegate count?
 
Here's my stab ar it...

What were your thoughts last February during hte democratic primary race when Clinton and Obama were still neck in neck in the delegate count?

I didn't really care. I was still really excited how the New York Giants (football) upset the New England Patriots played in the new Arizona Cardinals stadium.
 
[American Revisionism]Well, it has been sixty-three years since the end of WWII, in which the Axis was trounced by a combination of the United States and the Soviet Union, with minor assistance from England and some other countries. The aftermath caused the conflict known as the Cold War. So what did your parents do during the war? Americans and Russians only, please, remember this is OTL and not some "Europeans actually contribute to the war TL..."[/American Revisionism]
 
WI someone from 1924 could talk to someone in 1942 and were told that the two leading candidates for a major party nomination in the US were a negro and a white woman, suppose further they were told that this was the Democratic party, oh and that the main concern of the US establishment about Germany was the strength of pacificism
 
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