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  1. Marvel acquires rights to Aliens and Predator

    WI, in stead of Dark Horse Comics teaming up with DC Comics, it's Marvel that gets the deal. Haven't got a clue how to make this happen though. DC Comics was hampered by it's lack of heroes for the Predators to hunt. And they ended up only using Batman and Superman, whom they had to weaken...

  2. World War III Question

    It's even worse then that. There's a little known book called (my dodgy memory says) Aftermath, in which 2 Brittish cities get accidentally nuked (one was London, the other, I think Manchester) The described damage made Haiti look like a walk in the park. In the book, the Brittish economy...

  3. What if the World Cup allowed only native-born players?

    I did a quick check of the top 3 clubs from your country, Tulp. All three are Joint Stock Companies (and the stocks of Ajax are even publicly available) ie, all three are businesses. Especially Feyenoord is run to make a profit ... the fact that they seriously overspent in the early 2000s and...

  4. What if the World Cup allowed only native-born players?

    the lunar landings are a perfect example of money trumps all. People often have the impression that the US just burned the cash at some mystical altar and was then granted the lunar landings as a reward. That cash actually went somewhere. Into people's pockets and into the reserves of many...

  5. Wrestling Challenge: WCW and original ECW survive

    indeed, I remember this huge cage match between Hogan and friends (or was it just Randy Savage?) and Jimmy Heart's dungeon + the horsemen. especially for that match, WCW brought in Zeus (as 'Ze Gangsta') and barely used him ... probably because Tommy Lister isn't a wrestler. So, why throw hard...

  6. Sports What Ifs.

    WI FIFA had remained firm on schwalbes (dives) AFTER the '94 world cup in the US. During the world cup numerous player got booked and even sent off for schwalbes. It did wonders for the enjoyment level of the later games. but pretty much immediatly after the world cup the national FAs forgot...

  7. DBWI: Jeremy Clarkson is not a dandy

    you forgot the part where The Stig drives a convertible through a puddle of corrosive micro-oganisms who begin to eat away at both the convertible and The Stig himself. Later in that same episode The Stig says "I have failed you. I am sorry. I ..." at which points both the convertible and The...

  8. Did the Entente Need the United States?

    people seem to think the Michael offencivewas undertaken because of US entry into the war, now, I've always heared/read that Michael was only moved forward due to the US-ians. So, without the US, Michael happens later, better planned and prepared (slightly better as Germany didn't have much of...

  9. Victorian-era gladiatorial games

    wasn't the victorian era the time when more and more noblemen started getting into financial trouble, being unable to maintain their huge homes and stables and gardens and conservatories That's why I figured there'd be non too high up noblemen who'd try to generate some extra income by...

  10. Victorian-era gladiatorial games

    so, no fights to the death, but fights until one guy stays down/gives up, that could be done then? How about a scenario where a noble staging such fights finds out 10 minutes before the this evenings entertainment that his prize Aboriginal has come down with something and is barely able to...

  11. A different solution for the Belgian revolution ?

    things could have been over even faster then that. Had the Brussels garrison had stayed put iso running back to the Netherlands proper, they would have suffered horrible casualties but the uprising would have ended then and there. Of course, the problem with garrisons is that they're usually...

  12. The fate of the Belgium Congo

    I know that in the OTL early 50s, Belgium and the USA worked together to set up a "second capitol" (and army- and airbases) in Congo to give the Belgian government a place to flee to and carry on the fight in case the commies got any "fun" ideas. maybe the same happens in this TL?

  13. Challenge: Make one of the American sports the most popular in the world

    The American drug scandels are only featured during what we refer to as 'cucumber time', to fill the pages basically. American Football is indeed a virtual unknown in Belgium. I think we have a grand total of 4 teams in the entire country. The Dutch have more and there, it's even featured on TV...

  14. Darwin Reads Mendel's Papers

    In OTL, Darwin's notions were accepted far more readily then Wallace's. Wallace felt that individuals inherited traits from the group they belonged to, rather then from their parents. Even without actual proof, Darwin's mechanism for natural selection seemed more sensible. Including Mendel's...

  15. WI: Leopold II murdered in sleep in 1870

    indeed, Napoleon III specifically said to Leopold, he couldn't predict what his army would do in case of a Belgian invasion into the Netherlands. And Leo's plans do seem more wishfull thinking then actual military planning. Be in Amsterdam before the world could react? and how exactly was he...

  16. WI: Leopold II murdered in sleep in 1870

    By 1870, Leopold had already named his nephew Baudouin as his heir. Though, if the Salic law is strictly followed, the throne will first go his mostly deaf younger brother Philippe ... who had little intrest in ruling, he had already turned down the thrones of Greece and Rumania. So, if...

  17. Fun with Belgian given names

    Leopold has a fairly normal distribution, just a dip in 43-44. Oddly enough, the "issue of the King", which brought Belgium as close to full scale revolution as it ever got, has no effect on the popularity of the name. And, speaking of oddities, Leopold (a thouroughly old-fashioned name)...

  18. More micronations!

    A few German Hansestädte going/staying solo. They'll need to keep it up to at least WW1. Being a neutral Hansestadt after a WW1 in which the rest of Germany lost will be a very interresting position to be in. And there's Sealand, which was de facto recognised as being not Brittish on several...

  19. Fun with Belgian given names

    Jefke is a diminutive of Jef. Dutch has a number of diminutives: -je, -pje, -kje, -tje hand => handje boom => boompje koning => koninkje kleuter => kleutertje North Dutch has -ie as a diminutive boom => boompie And Flemish has -eke and -ke as diminutives Apparently, the...

  20. Fun with Belgian given names

    zero Hendryks, I'm afraid. Hendrik was popular from the mid 30s to the mid 60s and has been on a slow decline since. no noteworthy highs or lows ... which is hardly surprising, since there hasn't been a single famous/notorious Hendrik in the last 100 years. (although, my uncle Hendrik is QUITE...
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