Derisive term referring to media speculation that Senator Harry Potter (D-IN), would cross the aisle and become the 66th vote to impeach President Edwards over his use of campaign funds to cover up an extramarital affair.
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Derisive term referring to media speculation that Senator Harry Potter (D-IN), would cross the aisle and become the 66th vote to impeach President Edwards over his use of campaign funds to cover up an extramarital affair.
After Geography
Approximate English translation of the Chinese Government's Virtual Reality System. As the world it created was all encompassing (provided you had high enough SoCred) it removed the need to live in the physical world - hence a life "After Geography".
Bell Telephone and Intranet Company
Public utility provider for the United States land line services, United States radiophone services and US intranet services. Originally a subsidiary of AT&T, Bell Telephone services became BT&IC after it won an antitrust lawsuit it 1983 under President Jerry Falwell. It was then given a government monopoly after CompuServe, E-World and Minitel were revealed to have Socialist influence in 1992; the monopoly allowed for a greater centralization of internet services, as well as more prevention of such perversions as pornography and sedition, which largely require the use of a BBS to find. However, BT&IC's slow adoption of intraphone technology in the 2010s (which turned radiophones in de facto portable minicomputers) has heavily slowed economic growth, leading to calls for the break-up of the monopoly beginning in 2012- calls which President Greer have resisted so far.
Phlogiston
A superhero in MLJ Comics' M-Saders. Real name Clara Matheson, she's a british heiress (originally a blacksmith's daughter early on, but later given to her half-sister Audrey, aka Minotaur) who has pyrokinetic and combustion powers after an alchemic experiment gone wrong to resurrect her dying mother. She was introduced in the comic The Fly #8.
The Falling Virgin, the Hanging Chad
Item # 1 in the Museum of Post-American Democracy. In the 2000 elections, George W. Bush won the state of Florida by a single vote despite massive claims of wrongdoing (many of them involving "hanging-chads"). An example of a hanging chad was saved as an example. This event started a snowball of growing division and animosity between the two sides of politics (which, incidentally, led to many ALT stories involving non-partisan Americans). In 2032, the country informally separated into four areas of semi-autonomous government with South-Red America (as it was nicknamed) celebrating the Florida vote as evidence of divine intervention that recast the hanging-chad as a modern sacred icon.
Yukon World Fair
Located in Sitka, Yukon, the Yukon World Fair (ongoing since the British purchase of Alaska in 1873) is the largest expo of outdoor equipment in the western world. Most notably, the local environment has been stocked with both local and exotic animals for hunting and fishing, most notably the siberian elephant, rhinoceros and tiger. In recent years, the expo has also become infamous for the exchange of illegal firearms- most notably, from the Republic of Texas to the United States in order to foment pro-Confederate Rebellion.
Comparative Chronology Project
The 90s Supergroup set up by Chronology bassist and songwriter Dr John and primarily formed from the band's tribute acts. Notable hits include the amazingly successful Rock Opera of the same name, and subsequent film adaptation, which was a mockumentary of the original band's formation and rise to stardom with the odd scifi trope such as the bootstrap and predestination paradoxes.
3 Pink Boots
The 2009 animation Tsu no akai būtsu (つの赤いブーツ) known in English as 'Three Pink Boots' is famous for being Studio Ghibli's only real flop so far.
True, along with several truly great movies, over the years Ghibli also made a couple of movies that were just plain good, but it took Ghibli's retelling of the faerie tale of 'Puss in Boots' situated in the 1970's Tokio gay scene to actually loose money. True, the idea of a closeted young boy ultimately finding true love and acceptance throug the help of a gay cat spirit with three light brown 'socks' was groundbreaking, even radical for it's time and place. Yet in reality the movie dabbled in every Japanese and western gay stereotype without making it clear whether it embraced or parodied them, leaving viewers confused about the true message of the flick.
Insiders now see the movie as the prime example of the 'late Miyazaki period' where Hayao Miyazaki, nearing his 70th birthday tried to distance himself from daily operations in order to pave the way for his retirement. The movie, the story goes, came about when Ghibli's marketing department made a compelling case that folllowing Dreamworks' reinvention of the character 'Puss in Boots' as a Zorro-type Mexican swordfighter, a gay samurai cat would be the next big thing. Common sense should have proven them wrong immediately, but apparently Miyazaki's response was 'Well, let them try'....
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President Evil
Note: I have had this on my list ever since posted a challenge for 'Resident Evil'. However real llfe events every time convinced me that those was not yet the right time. It may not even be now. So I ask to everyone responding not to take the 'obvious' approach but to take some time to come up with something truly original like Evil Knievel's run for president of the Screen Actor's guild or something......
True, along with several truly great movies, over the years Ghibli also made a couple of movies that were just plain good, but it took Ghibli's retelling of the faerie tale of 'Puss in Boots' situated in the 1970's Tokio gay scene to actually loose money. True, the idea of a closeted young boy ultimately finding true love and acceptance throug the help of a gay cat spirit with three light brown 'socks' was groundbreaking, even radical for it's time and place. Yet in reality the movie dabbled in every Japanese and western gay stereotype without making it clear whether it embraced or parodied them, leaving viewers confused about the true message of the flick.
Insiders now see the movie as the prime example of the 'late Miyazaki period' where Hayao Miyazaki, nearing his 70th birthday tried to distance himself from daily operations in order to pave the way for his retirement. The movie, the story goes, came about when Ghibli's marketing department made a compelling case that folllowing Dreamworks' reinvention of the character 'Puss in Boots' as a Zorro-type Mexican swordfighter, a gay samurai cat would be the next big thing. Common sense should have proven them wrong immediately, but apparently Miyazaki's response was 'Well, let them try'....
Next up:
President Evil
Note: I have had this on my list ever since posted a challenge for 'Resident Evil'. However real llfe events every time convinced me that those was not yet the right time. It may not even be now. So I ask to everyone responding not to take the 'obvious' approach but to take some time to come up with something truly original like Evil Knievel's run for president of the Screen Actor's guild or something......
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Howard Evil, elected US President in 1984.
President Evil is the stage name of Canadian citizen and actor Patrick Ellis, most famous for playing the role of Thingol in HBO's Silmarillion. In 2012, however, he suffered a mental break (partly attributed to drug addiction and horrific hours) which forced the temporary shutdown of production on the show. This also forced a review into the budgeting and production practices of showrunners Benioff and Weiss, which also led to the show's cancellation due to their gross mismanagement of the property. In and out of the hospital from 2012 until 2013, he later left and adopted the "President Evil" persona for a comedy act used to promote charity work to help drug addicts.
He reprised his role as Thingol in 2014, when HBO restarted the Silmarillion production, and is currently slated to play Doran Martell in 2017's Game of Thrones.
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The name of a series of medical-themed video games where your character has to make progress on developing a cure for a deadly pandemic while navigating the threat of apocalyptic cultists who want to stop you - advancement is done through solving various logic puzzles.
The Vampire Epidemic of 2001
The release of the incredibly popular movie Vampire Prince in 1998 led to a massive boom of vampire related media. This culminated in the vampire epidemic of 2001, when thousands of teenagers and young adults all over the world went out dressed as vampires and jokingly pretended to bite people on the street. Some of the people who were "bitten" pretended to be newly converted vampires and joined the group.
King William's Great Matter
A type of subatomic particle discovered in 1994 by the physics research team of the Albertina university in Konigsberg; also known as "Wilhelm Matter", the particle was named after German Emperor Wilhelm III in honor of his support for physics and atomic research throughout the Empire and her colonies as part of the "Academics and Arms" race between European powers who tried to outdo one another in scientific and military fields.
Yakshas, Yeti and Yōkai – a Study on the Paranormal Crypto-Biosphere of the Orient
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A 1982 book regarding spiritual mythologies across Southern and Eastern Asia and how they were interconnected across cultural and geographical lines, inspired by Indian writer Salman Rushdie's travels across the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in the 1970s. The book was noted for emerging at a time where Imperial Japan's once-stringent influence over its pseudo-puppets was waning and international relations between East and West began to thaw, giving Westerners a curious insight into the near-enigmatic cultures which had been eclipsed by the Rising Sun.
Metal Gear Solid: Rising (A Hideo Kojima Game)
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Metal Gear Solid: Rising is the sixth installment in the Metal Gear video game franchise. The game reviewed poorly and sold moderately owing to it's poor gameplay loop, bland storytelling, and increasingly intrusive monetization, with one reviewer saying, "MGS:R offers beautiful graphics and textures (if you like them wasted on dark, empty rooms and skyboxes)- and little else." Despite the title, Hideo Kojima had little to do with the game; due to contractual obligations, however, he was unable to remove his nome from prominent display on the title.
Ub3r and L33t
The name of a minor batman Villain and his sidekick, who are master hackers and use their hacking to create mayhem and chaos in Gotham purely for the 'lulz'. Their origin story is as tech-savvy former minions of the Joker. They had a much larger role in the live-action Batman TV Show that aired on the CW from 2013 to 2017, as recurring villains, due to how well received Ub3r's actor was in the role.
Darkness Sideways Falling
Phillip K. Dick's work, published in 1991, a decade after the blockbuster Blade Runner propelled him into mainstream culture. The book tells an alternate story of Dick's early death in which the filming of Blade Runner didn't happen until 1992, causing Dick to ignore his faulty vision and eventually die of a stroke. Widely considered a modern masterpiece, Dick won nearly every literary award on the planet.
Do Electric Sheep Dream of Androids?
Duane "Skydog" Allman was the lead guitarist for Derek and the Dominos until the band broke up on New Year's Eve, 1999, so that the members could pursue separate projects. The group remained on good terms, however, and regularly collaborated. The group is considered to be one of the quintessential rock bands, with Allman himself rated in a 2006 Rolling Stone magazine article as the 5th-greatest guitarist of all time, just behind Eric Clapton.
Allman himself had a leg severely injured in a 1971 motorcycle accident, making walking extremely difficult and forcing him to use a brace to play onstage. Because of this, he regularly promoted driver's education courses and, notably, spoke on the floor of the Senate to discuss the Americans with Disabilities act. He briefly flirted with acting in 2001, playing a musician character in Star Wars: The Clone Wars; this later led to him forming the heavy metal band By the Sword and the Cross with Christopher Lee, giving Allman a much-applauded return to the musical scene in 2007.
Why, That's Racist!
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Late 1950s tv show, hosted by an ex preacher named Martin Luther King, Jr, where a panel would laugh about social faux pas of the day. Famous for its inclusivity, it helped supercharge the civil rights movement while at the same time providing everyone involved a healthy laugh
Diamonds and Gold: South Africa’s Brush with Apartheid
Diamonds and Gold: South Africa’s Brush with Apartheid
A well-known pop history book describing an interbellum attempt by several mining corporations (led by de Beers) to pressure the South African government into granting them what amounted to legal jurisdiction over their lands, property, and employees. Rather shakily citing the independence of the great trading companies of the 17th and 18th Centuries, this proposed policy would come to be known as apartheid, from the Afrikaans word for "apartness", indicating the way in which the companies' operations would be apart from the normal governing of the country.
Though the South African government had been inclined to go forward with the plan, last-minute intervention from London put an end to it.
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