AH Title and Description Game

[shiftygiant]

It is an honor to pretend to be you : The look-alikes of Presidents.

Following a bet with another member to make a plausible timeline out of the events of Dave, the vignette series, It Is An Honor To Pretend To Be You was born. Set during different time periods, each vignette follows a self contained story in which an impersonator is bought into impersonate the President following some bizarre and ironic accident. These include:

1- Chevy Chase for Gerald Ford, who after Ford slips into a coma, takes his place and wins the election.
2- John C. Morgan for George W. Bush, who is forced to take the deceased President's place after Bush chokes to death on a pretzel by Condoleezza Rice, who wants to avoid a Cheney administration. Morgan decides against invading Iraq, and is nearly killed by an assassin, which he uses to get out of his role and return to his normal life.
3- Jimmy Carter for JFK, who following JFK's assassination and LBJ's heart attack is immediately made out to be JFK, his personality change explained by his head wound.
4- Abraham Lincoln as Jefferson Davis. Perhaps the longest and oddest, in a world where the Civil War took place early, Jefferson Davis becomes President however is killed shortly before inauguration. Lincoln, a disgraced Kentucky Lawyer, takes Davis' place, and betrays the people who put him into the Presidency by running an abolition administration, with those who accuse a switch thrown into an asylum. Lincoln is killed shortly after the emancipation proclamation, leaving the Secret Service to find a look alike to replace him...

The series was well received, although considered largely implausible. The promised fifth installment about Richard Nixon committing suicide during Watergate has yet to surface.

Tell Me It Ain't So!
or
Michigan, The Republic of
or
The Assassination of Jefferson Davis by the Coward John Wilkes Booth

 

[Pericles]

Following a bet with another member to make a plausible timeline out of the events of Dave, the vignette series, It Is An Honor To Pretend To Be You was born. Set during different time periods, each vignette follows a self contained story in which an impersonator is bought into impersonate the President following some bizarre and ironic accident. These include:

1- Chevy Chase for Gerald Ford, who after Ford slips into a coma, takes his place and wins the election.
2- John C. Morgan for George W. Bush, who is forced to take the deceased President's place after Bush chokes to death on a pretzel by Condoleezza Rice, who wants to avoid a Cheney administration. Morgan decides against invading Iraq, and is nearly killed by an assassin, which he uses to get out of his role and return to his normal life.
3- Jimmy Carter for JFK, who following JFK's assassination and LBJ's heart attack is immediately made out to be JFK, his personality change explained by his head wound.
4- Abraham Lincoln as Jefferson Davis. Perhaps the longest and oddest, in a world where the Civil War took place early, Jefferson Davis becomes President however is killed shortly before inauguration. Lincoln, a disgraced Kentucky Lawyer, takes Davis' place, and betrays the people who put him into the Presidency by running an abolition administration, with those who accuse a switch thrown into an asylum. Lincoln is killed shortly after the emancipation proclamation, leaving the Secret Service to find a look alike to replace him...

The series was well received, although considered largely implausible. The promised fifth installment about Richard Nixon committing suicide during Watergate has yet to surface.

Tell Me it Aint So!

A TL where Rick Santorum is the GOP nominee in 2012 and loses 55-42 and Congress goes Democrat. Mainly details the 2012 election leaving some readers hoping for a continuation into the aftermath.For Want of a Referendum-A Nz TL

 

[The Champion]

Following a bet with another member to make a plausible timeline out of the events of Dave, the vignette series, It Is An Honor To Pretend To Be You was born. Set during different time periods, each vignette follows a self contained story in which an impersonator is bought into impersonate the President following some bizarre and ironic accident. These include:

1- Chevy Chase for Gerald Ford, who after Ford slips into a coma, takes his place and wins the election.
2- John C. Morgan for George W. Bush, who is forced to take the deceased President's place after Bush chokes to death on a pretzel by Condoleezza Rice, who wants to avoid a Cheney administration. Morgan decides against invading Iraq, and is nearly killed by an assassin, which he uses to get out of his role and return to his normal life.
3- Jimmy Carter for JFK, who following JFK's assassination and LBJ's heart attack is immediately made out to be JFK, his personality change explained by his head wound.
4- Abraham Lincoln as Jefferson Davis. Perhaps the longest and oddest, in a world where the Civil War took place early, Jefferson Davis becomes President however is killed shortly before inauguration. Lincoln, a disgraced Kentucky Lawyer, takes Davis' place, and betrays the people who put him into the Presidency by running an abolition administration, with those who accuse a switch thrown into an asylum. Lincoln is killed shortly after the emancipation proclamation, leaving the Secret Service to find a look alike to replace him...

The series was well received, although considered largely implausible. The promised fifth installment about Richard Nixon committing suicide during Watergate has yet to surface.


The Assassination of Jefferson Davis by the Coward John Wilkes Booth

We follow an alternate history in which John Wilkes Booth thinks the leadership of Jefferson Davis will take the Confederate States of America to be defeated in the Civil War, he then devises a plan with other conspirators to kill Jefferson Davis and Alexander h. Stephens and took power for them. The day June 3, 1863, Jefferson Davis is assassinated in Montgomery with two head shots, but the assassin, John Wilkes Booth is quickly captured, the other conspirators fail and Alexander Stephens survives and becomes the second President of the Confederate States of America, the North and Lincoln are accused of having planned the crime and that motivates the Confederate troops, what makes that the Civil War will last till 1870. ... .



2018 : The Legacy of Jack the Ripper.


Rich heroes : Bill Gates is the superhero known as The Hooded .



Environmental devastation : Where are the bees ?.

or


Err... that the American people be blessed : President Atheist .


(please try for more than four lines , please).

 

[TPL99]

Err... that the American people be blessed: President Atheist.

(please try for more than four lines , please).

This TL it's about the "crisis" of Oliver Rogers election in 2032. Rogers (b. 1986), Democratic Governor of New York, was elected with in "leftist" platform and very liberal in social issues. Rogers don't agreed and rejected to go for Al Smith dinner on campaign trail. And their inauguration was "special" removing all religious references, causing controversies throughout his presidency. Now, we're on 2035 and Tea Party are burning on primaries with a "ultra-religious" and popular Mormon reverend Raymond Riley (b. 1992) of Utah leading on GOP polls for 2036 election.

Next:

Allons-y: Prime Minister Tennant
2020: The Battle of Century
The Perfect Body For Everyone
Don't Load Up Your Guns - Kurt Cobain's Presidency

 

[shiftygiant]

Allons-y: Prime Minister Tennant

A TL about the rather oddball Premiership of Scottish Liberal Harold Tennant, who is Prime Minister following convoluted circumstances that formed the National Government. Sold as a comedy, with Tennant a slightly more intelligent Mr Benn like figure who bungles through crisis' and success' like a drunk through bars, the Timeline was considered a light relief from it's grimmer contemporaries, and remains a favorite of older board members. The Timeline was released on Kindle following a popularity boost by one of Harold Tennant's descendants, who stated she enjoyed reading it, and is currently looking to be published in dead tree editions.


Michigan, The Republic of
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The Fantastic Mr. Brown
or
The Man Who Ate The Bull that Gored Tony Benn

 

[ramones1986]

Michigan, The Republic of

The third and last part of the long-running "The Land of Michigan" series, a alternate history scenario about the Land of Michigan, its Algonquian-speaking society and their interaction with their neighbors. The third part of the installment started in 1992, the year where the Prince and Princess of Wales (Charles and Diana) announced their separation through an official letter read by British Prime Minister John Major before the House of Commons in London; almost simultaneously, the campaign to the parliamentary elections was recently started. The said scenario narrated the rise of the Michigan Republicans in power in the midst of the scandal that rocked the British Royal Family, the admission of both Prince Charles and Princess Diana to their respective adulteries and its impact in the government of the country, now ruled by a shaky Labor-Republican coalition. The highlight of "The Republic of Michigan" was the referendum of 1994, in which the republican position narrowly defeated the status quo (52%-48%) and lead to a constitutional consensus where while Michigan would become a full-fledged republic in 2000, the title of Governor-General would remain as chief of state, equivalent to the president of a parliamentary republic.




Choose your pick:

a.) The Kurds of Anatolian Peninsula: Their Full History

b.) The Hittites of Cyprus: From Antiquity to Contemporary Times

c.) Chaldea and Erek: The Complicated and Intertwined Histories of the Two Nations

d.) Aoreatoa: The History of Zealandia and its People

e.) Dyma Teledu Cymru: The Complete History of the Dedicated Welsh-Language Regional Fourth Channel

 

[Barbarossa Rotbart]

The Hittites of Cyprus: From Antiquity to Contemporary Times

While the Hittite Empire did not survive the Bronze Age Collapse the Hittite culture did survive on the island of Cyprus which had become Hittite during the New Kingdom. There had been other Neo-Hittite kingdoms in Syria after the fall of the empire but all of them vanished in the following centuries. But on Cyprus Hittite culture and language lived on. Eventually Cyprus became part of the Roman Empire but was never truly romanized (although they became christians). And not even the Ottomans who took the island from the Eastern Roman Empire in the 15th century left a permanent mark on the cypriotic culture. In late 18th century a very religious but also very weak Ottoman sultan tried to impose Islam on the local population. That led to an uprising which was used by the French to occupy the island in 1798. But the next year the Hittites drove the French away and the Hittite Kingdom of Cyprus was established (with a British prince as their monarch). This kingdom still exists today.

Choose (and write at least four sentences! But more would be better.)
Down with the King! Long Live the Queens!
or
The 99 Deities of Islam
or
Going Commando - A Fashion TL
or
The Incredible Adventures of God and her Scribe
or
The Rise of the American Social Democrats
or
There is no God Except Aten, and Akhenaten is His Prophet

 

[The Champion]

This TL it's about the "crisis" of Oliver Rogers election in 2032. Rogers (b. 1986), Democratic Governor of New York, was elected with in "leftist" platform and very liberal in social issues. Rogers don't agreed and rejected to go for Al Smith dinner on campaign trail. And their inauguration was "special" removing all religious references, causing controversies throughout his presidency. Now, we're on 2035 and Tea Party are burning on primaries with a "ultra-religious" and popular Mormon reverend Raymond Riley (b. 1992) of Utah leading on GOP polls for 2036 election.

Next:


Don't Load Up Your Guns - Kurt Cobain's Presidency

We follow an alternate history in which Kurt Cobain gives up committing suicide and entering a political career he becomes Governor of Washington and eventually to their liberal views becomes President of EUA.A band Nirvana makes a show in their possession party ... .

2018 : The Legacy of Jack the Ripper.


Rich heroes : Bill Gates is the superhero known as The Hooded .

or

Environmental devastation : Where are the bees ?.


(please try for more than four lines , please).

 

[Barbarossa Rotbart]

Sorry, but you wrote an answer to the wrong list of titles.

 

[The Champion]

Sorry, but you wrote an answer to the wrong list of titles.

No, actually I can choose the title you want to answer , for no one I said earlier, I 'm answering a title, just because it is not the title that was placed before my review , I can still answer , right ?.

 

[Barbarossa Rotbart]

No, actually I can choose the title you want to answer , for no one I said earlier, I 'm answering a title, just because it is not the title that was placed before my review , I can still answer , right ?.

No, you cannot!. You can only choose among those title from the last post, Except it was ninja'd. Choosing a title from several post earlier is unfair to the rst of us who follow the rules. If cannot write a descirption to a title, then wait until some one else wrote his answer and posts a new title.

 

[The Champion]

And no offense , but I answered once a title your only because of one detail , you have not told and continues to insist with a title that has already been answered , so do not blame me if I do not want to answer a title her for it ,I'm being honest.

To have no more problems , the next to come here replied one of his titles ok ?.

 

[shiftygiant]

The Rise of the American Social Democrats

As the sun slowly rose on the last warm summers evening, in the smoke smothered meeting room of the International Amphitheatre, the Party Leadership of the Democratic National Convention has gathered to discuss the death of Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy.

This is the opening line to the now famous The Rise of the American Social Democrats, a timeline in it's fourth year. This odyssey begins on the morning following the death of Vice President Humphrey's after he was killed chocking on Tear Gas that had come through his Hotel Window, and Senator Eugene McCarthy, who was killed by a concussion after slamming his head into a chair when dodging a scuffle between a Protester and Security Guard. The Leadership, unsure if they should throw their weight behind McGovern. McGovern wins nomination, however is destroyed in the Election by Nixon. Although he lost, the Party, like the Republicans has with Goldwater, begin to shift to the left, although in 1972 electing James Gavin on the Democratic Ticket. Gavin, running on a Liberal Campaign that has little emphasis on the ongoing Vietnam War and instead of the Social issues of Nixon's America, is unable to beat Nixon, who wins in a landslide thanks to unease over Gavin, and the Third Party Campaign of George Wallace, who splits what would have been a strong Democratic Ticket in the south. Following Agnew's forced retirement and replacement by Melvin Laird, Nixon is impeached following the discovery that his Campaign Team had been engaging in illegal activities Nixon attempted to suppress. Laird would go on to become President with Gerald Ford his VP, and would run in 1976 against the Democratic Nominee Jerry Brown, narrowly loosing. The TL has been on hiatus since.

The Fantastic Mr. Brown
or
The Man Who Could Be King
or
The Goliath Option

 

[Pericles]

As the sun slowly rose on the last warm summers evening, in the smoke smothered meeting room of the International Amphitheatre, the Party Leadership of the Democratic National Convention has gathered to discuss the death of Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy.

This is the opening line to the now famous The Rise of the American Social Democrats, a timeline in it's fourth year. This odyssey begins on the morning following the death of Vice President Humphrey's after he was killed chocking on Tear Gas that had come through his Hotel Window, and Senator Eugene McCarthy, who was killed by a concussion after slamming his head into a chair when dodging a scuffle between a Protester and Security Guard. The Leadership, unsure if they should throw their weight behind McGovern. McGovern wins nomination, however is destroyed in the Election by Nixon. Although he lost, the Party, like the Republicans has with Goldwater, begin to shift to the left, although in 1972 electing James Gavin on the Democratic Ticket. Gavin, running on a Liberal Campaign that has little emphasis on the ongoing Vietnam War and instead of the Social issues of Nixon's America, is unable to beat Nixon, who wins in a landslide thanks to unease over Gavin, and the Third Party Campaign of George Wallace, who splits what would have been a strong Democratic Ticket in the south. Following Agnew's forced retirement and replacement by Melvin Laird, Nixon is impeached following the discovery that his Campaign Team had been engaging in illegal activities Nixon attempted to suppress. Laird would go on to become President with Gerald Ford his VP, and would run in 1976 against the Democratic Nominee Jerry Brown, narrowly loosing. The TL has been on hiatus since.

The Fantastic Mr. Brown

A TL where Gordon Brown becomes Labour leader in 1994 and becomes PM. He gets a New Labour program passed but the TL stops after his 2005 victory with rumours of division and scheming in the party. It was rated one of the top Politibrit TLs.

For Want of a Split of the Tongue
1998:He was a One Term
Wonder After All!-An australian tl

 

[TheNervousOne]

1998:He was a One Term

3rd October, 1998.

The swing against the Liberal/National coalition is more evenly distributed across the Australian electorate. As Kim Beazley’s Labor sweeps a further six seats nationwide, Prime Minister John Howard barely manages to hold his own Division of Bennelong.

As the final returns roll in, it becomes apparent that Australia has elected the first hung Parliament since 1944, with the ALP holding 73 seats to the Coalition’s 74. With 75 seats required for a majority in the House of Representatives, and the sole re-elected independent Peter Andren refusing to support the Liberal goods and services tax, a political stalemate emerges, with neither party able to form government.

With no other alternatives, Governor General William Deane appoints John Howard as caretaker Prime Minister and dissolves the Lower House for an election on October 24th. Despite calls for his resignation, Howard affirms his intention to stay the course as party leader. Rattled by their brush with defeat, a shaken Liberal caucus forces a leadership spill. Peter Costello is placed at the helm of the Liberal Party.

The three-week election campaign is rocky. Labor exploits their victory in the popular vote and the Liberal leadership instability, whilst Costello offers further exemptions to the GST. The electorate is ultimately unconvinced, and the ALP is elected with a small majority.

Kim Beazley is sworn in as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia, and John Howard fades into obscurity as Australia’s first one-term Prime Minister since Scullin.

To The Death
or
The Attila Line Falters
or
The Wrath of Samson

 

[Asami]

The Wrath of Samson

In a futuristic Intifada in the 2020s, the Israeli state is invaded by her Arab neighbors, lead by the Islamic Caliphate and the right-wing populist Egypt. In a last desperate attempt to prevent her nation from falling, Israel launches Operation Samson and causes World War III, which wipes out billions of people.

Life and Death and Love and Birth
I'm Still Here
Fundamental Theorem
or
I Can't Live With You

 

[The Champion]

The Wrath of Samson

In a futuristic Intifada in the 2020s, the Israeli state is invaded by her Arab neighbors, lead by the Islamic Caliphate and the right-wing populist Egypt. In a last desperate attempt to prevent her nation from falling, Israel launches Operation Samson and causes World War III, which wipes out billions of people.

Life and Death and Love and Birth

We follow an alternate history in which after the death of President Kennedy in Dallas, Jackie Kennedy finds himself pregnant two twins.When they are born, a boy and a girl called Harry and Melanie Kennedy.ATL shows us the lives of two brothers as they get older , Harry grows as an angry walking with a group of bikers and it does not work,while Melanie becomes a famous model and get a Miss Universe contest , when his older brother John F. Kennedy Jr. died in a plane crash , Harry becomes more responsible and becomes a successful businessman .The ATL ends decades in the future , when USA President John F. Kennedy Third, visiting the graves of his father Harry and his aunt Melanie in New York ... .


2018 : The Legacy of Jack the Ripper.


Rich heroes : Bill Gates is the superhero known as The Hooded .

or

Environmental devastation : Where are the bees ?.


(please try for more than four lines , please).

 

[Barbarossa Rotbart]

2018 : The Legacy of Jack the Ripper

A dark cyberpunk TL about the hunt for serial killer in the Greater London Metroplex, who sees himself as the heir of Jack the Ripper. He killed nearly fifty prostitutes during his year long reign of terror in the underworld of London until he vanished without a trace. And the police never found him. Only in the end teh readers learn that the killer was a computer simulation of the historical Jack the Ripper which became sentient and was accidentally deleted by his last victim.



Choose (and write at least four sentences! But more would be better.)
Down with the King! Long Live the Queens!
or
The 99 Deities of Islam
or
Going Commando - A Fashion TL
or
The Incredible Adventures of God and her Scribe
or
The Travellers and the Star Frontiers
or
There is no God Except Aten, and Akhenaten is His Prophet

 

[Shiva]

The 99 Deities of Islam

A TL in which Abu Jahl received a series of visions from the Gods that caused him to develop a new religion from within Arabic polytheism called 'Islam'. During the 'Preachings of the Prophet', Abu Jahl revealed that there were only 99 deities who reigned over creation, the Father of Creation or 'Allah' being the 100th deity had given his children creation to rule over for both good or ill. His preachings caused mass conflict, ultimately Abu Jahl defeated Muhammad ibn`Abd at the Battle of Mecca, seizing the city and turning it into the center of his religion. Currently in the TL the expansion of the faith has been limited to Arabia and Persia since a series of defeats with Byzantine forces made the heirs of Abu Jahl expand exclusively eastward.


The Revolution Will Have a Soundtrack

or

Burning Baltic Sea

or

Of Alchemy and Steam

or

Long Live Free Nova Scotia!

 

[Chris Oakley]

Burning Baltic Sea

A Cold War TL depicting a hypothetical naval confrontation between NATO and Warsaw Pact naval forces at the start of World War III. Of particular note is the author's alarmingly realistic portrayal of a Soviet missile submarine's last moments as it is sinking into the Baltic.

Hey, come back here with my planetoid!

The Lake Erie Zoo: A History Of Cleveland Hockey

Warsaw Has Fallen And It Can't Get Up

American Crusade