So How Are Your Analogues?

MarkWhittington · Dec 18, 2005

Let's see.

In the Children of Apollo timeline, I'm a mid leval helium 3 extraction engineer doing my third tour at Port Apollo on the Moon.

In the timeline when the Third World War (non nuclear) broke out in 1978, I'm retired from the CIA and have written my memoirs about my adventures rousing the nomads of Central Asia against the Soviets.

In the Muslim ascendency timeline I'm a down on his heels slave trader who is hen pecked by his hareem.

In the Confederate Victory timeline, I run an underground newspaper calling for the abolition of slavery and am on the run from the law.

In the 1984 timeline, I went to Room 101 a long time ago and am now reconciled with Big Brother.

In the England wins the 100 Years War timeline, I'm a Duke.

Scarecrow · Dec 18, 2005

timeline alpha670/8: I am on patrol duty in Timor, watching out for any Dutch-backed rebels who oppose West Australias annexation of the island

timeline beta-max 3423: i am Duke of the Duchy of Cyprus, currently residing in Aachen to make my voice heard over the treaty of trade restrictions against the Holy Occidental Empire, and also to marry the Princess of Flanders.

DuQuense · Dec 19, 2005

TL 9-11-MW

I'm in a max security prision.

Seems that Arab friend

i met here at the local Beltville Gold's Gym was Highjacker # twenty

[You know the one stoped for speeding and held when his name came up in the Immigration data base.]

yes i admit my fingerprints were all over his Laurel motel room, but I was just visiting. How was I to know that his freinds would take my specualtions about how to destroy the US to heart.

I certainly never expected anyone to really fly planes into the Yellow River Dams, and Destroy all the Cities on the Mursuri, & south Mississippi rivers.

Diamond · Dec 19, 2005

In Timeline X-7-Zed, I'm a small speck of consciousness in the Great All-Mind, a nanotechnological group mind which inhabits every form of life on the planet, from the smallest microbe on up.

In Timeline Luther, I'm an apprentice glass-blower in New Genoa, capital of the Papal Dominion of Mexica. Tenoch Liberation Front terrorists used some new-fangled invention called 'dynamite' to blow up the Cathedral, and the Lord Bishop has declared martial law until the crisis is over.

Deflare · Dec 19, 2005

Well, one alternate me is recognized as a champion of youth rights in California, who has been instrumental in lowering the voting age to 16 and is expected to have a stellar political career once he becomes 18; he plans to run for Congress eventually, on a liberal platform focusing on the lowering of age requirements for all federal offices to 18.

Another is an operative in a secret organization hoping to restore democracy in Japan and the territories in her Pacific Co-Prosperity Sphere; he works for this organization by arranging security encryption for the organization's computers. Hopefully, they'll succeed without causing the Sphere to collapse- the last thing they want is for the Germans and the Fascist States of America to occupy formerly Japanese-held territory.

Count Dearborn · Feb 22, 2006

In Timeline Omicron-9, I'm the designated guardian of a group of minors. Bubonic plauge returned to the world in 1992, and kill 75% of the worlds population, but strangly, nobody under the age of 5. I survived because of a genetic anomoly that runs in my family, of which, only a few died. Under FEMA directive 0156-1993, my family took over our hometown, and took in all manner of orphans. I'm now called "Uncle Clifford" by 23 kids of various ethnic backrounds.

In Timeline Delta-16, I'm taking any job I can find. The Second Great Depression hit the world in 1988, and as a consequence, I was lucky to finish High School, but college was a dream that faded as the Depression went on longer and longer. The Reorganized States were thrown for a loop after Hurricanes Maggie and Oliva tore through the Gulf States. I sure hope the Triumvirate can get the country back on track.

Wendell · Feb 23, 2006

In one timeline, I have just concluded my first 100 days as Prime Minister (for a third time) of the Tsar's imperial Alaskan government. The war with Oregon under my predecessor was not going so well, but now it looks like the Tsar's army will be victorious once again. I cannot take all of the credit, however, for Chairman Kulongoski down there in Engels (previously called Salem) has made some rather lousy tactical decisions...

Count Dearborn · Mar 19, 2006

Bump, Bump, Boing

Fenwick · Mar 19, 2006

1. My wrist never broke so I got to play for UCLA Bruins. Made one great tackle at the Rose Bowl, and was signed up with the LA raiders.

2. Wrist broke but I wasn't shot in the thigh in the Gulf war. Stuck with the army until I got become the full bird Col. I was meant to be.

3. For some strange reason my parents kept being roadies for KISS and I grow up among rock's greatest. Eventaully I start a cover band, and get one good album out, yet I still play the fiddle!

Diamond · Mar 20, 2006

In Timeline Ozymandias, I'm a nomad on the Great Caribbean Salt Flats. I've just stumbled across the ruins of a ancient ship dating from before the Great Burning. Unfortunately, it's on the edge of the Kyuban Desolation, a place awash with evil spirits and radiation. It'll make recovering whatever wealth the vessel holds tricky at best...

Mojo · Mar 20, 2006

My favorite me is currently fighty a guerilla war with the Human race against a hyper tech British Empire that used gentic engineering to make themselves in to cyborgs and are trying to take over the Earth.

Count Dearborn · Mar 29, 2006

In Timeline Delta-24, aurochs ranching is big business, and some the the biggest ranches are in the American Midwest. I own one of the largest in the world, and I spend most of my days making my herd of auros are in prime condition.

Fleetlord · Mar 30, 2006

In Pickering-5, I might be starting a war.

It started a couple of weeks ago -- evidently my uncle is a member of the U.S. Congress, and as his aide I had rented a bunch of black and Latino slaves, (most of them young and female), as..."entertainment"... for a private fundraiser on his yacht. Then I hijacked the yacht, sailed it into New York harbor, and applied for asylum.

(The slaves were automatically freed and granted citizenship, under New England law.)

Thing is, I "stole" from some pretty influential slave-holders, including the Vice-President. Columbia is demanding restitution and my extradition, New England President Bush (Yes, that President Bush -- I actually like him in this TL

) has basically told the US to have carnal relations with a rosebush...it's one of those incidents that would normally be smoothed over, but both sides seem to be feeling bullish for some reason.

I just hope the Free World wins....

Count Dearborn · Apr 23, 2006

In timelinw Delta-37, I'm the author of one of the most popular webcomics, entitled, Midwestern Blues. The comic has been going strong since 1995. The stories concern the adventures of an everyman, and his three weird, but extraordinary pets. Duchess, the beagle, has OCD, and is the granddaughter of a hell hound. Trouble, who many think is a calico, is in reality, Neko (demon), who was sent to take out Duchess, but has since decided that she likes the mortal plane. Kit is a tortiseshell cat who is the embodyment of "curiosity killed the cat", but she never dies. Recently, Kit just got back from a tour with Danny Crow (Tony Hawk knock-off).

Redem · Apr 23, 2006

Well one of my many analog is Canadian Redneck who live in Agrarian Quebec and is a fervent catholic. Also he shoot every single person approaching his cabin.

Wendell · Apr 24, 2006

Wendell said:
In one timeline, I have just concluded my first 100 days as Prime Minister (for a third time) of the Tsar's imperial Alaskan government. The war with Oregon under my predecessor was not going so well, but now it looks like the Tsar's army will be victorious once again. I cannot take all of the credit, however, for Chairman Kulongoski down there in Engels (previously called Salem) has made some rather lousy tactical decisions...

I should do a map for this...

Count Dearborn · May 6, 2006

In Timeline Delta-29, I run a pirate radio station, and I am the outlaw DJ/commentator of Explicitive Deleted. In 1988, Pat Robertson, Fred Phelps, and Bill Duke took over the US without a shot being fired. They have turned the US into theocracy. Everything you can think of is against the law, and the Department of Public Information have a strangle hold on the media and all sources of information. I have been a thorn in the side of the government for almost ten years.

Count Dearborn · Jun 1, 2006

Bump, bump, bump

Johnnyreb · Jun 1, 2006

I was told I was dropped on my baby head when my grandparent was scrambling for an air raid shelter in 1944 (a V1 was on its way.) I often think had I not been dropped, perhaps I would be England football manager by now.

The truth is, I am really Elvis Presley. I faked my death and went to work as an average adjuster for an insurance company. Talent will out, however, and I became assistant general manager of the Springfield branch (NJ, that is) before I retired.

Nekromans · Jun 1, 2006

In one TL, I'm an insane teenage megalomaniac, secretly taking over the world with a mixture of blackmail and propaganda.

Wait, that's OTL. You didn't read anything.

I also have a role in the POD of Timeline ZZ 9 Plural Z Alpha, i.e., I accidentally hack into SETI, and the Vogons demolish Earth as a result.