Oh yeah?
You know, I honestly can’t remember if its bold for internal voice or not…
Look never mind that, what year do you think this is?
What?
Its 2016 m9. And everyone knows that what year it is determines precisely what can and can’t happen.
Well obviously, it’s the twenty first century. What’s your point?
A TLIAD? Like, that’s soooo 2014. Don’t you mean a TLIAPOT? Or a TLIALAITTF? Or a TLIABLT?
You made that last one up.
Its alternate history – it’s all made up. Don’t you think the format is a bit, well, dated?
Ok, so a while back there was a short discussion on the PMQs thread about how TLIADs have rather drifted from their roots, and that the original idea was to write a rapidly updating short timeline in, well,
a day.
Go on…
The short time limit was an explicit part of the challenge. It’s what makes a TLIAD distinct from a regular timeline.
So this is going to be done in 24 hours?
Yes
Well, good luck with that. Hasn’t it still been done to death though?
Quite possibly, which is why I’m being deliberately self-conscious in invoking some of the old tropes. There’s life in this old vehicle yet.
Ah… it’s a PMs list isn’t it? You’ll make BrotherSideways cry.
It is. And I'll keep the inevitable military coups, endless party spits, and the
Continuity SDP (Hodge Hill Branch)-
Unionist Party coalitions to a minimum.
Is any part of this going to be original?
Yes. But let’s just say that this TLIAD owes a lot to its ancestors. It all begins in the dark days of 1941…