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  1. DBWI: 50 Years Since the Collapse of the Third Reich

    With all due respect, I still find this "Second Holocaust" theory absolutely objectionable. David Irving has done a marvellous job, i feel, with his research into the alleged deprivation of food, the use of mobile gas chambers, etc, none of which, I hasten to remind you all, have been found...

  2. The Worst Musicals Never Performed

    Sutcliffe! The Musical, as seen in the Crime episode of Brass Eye. The catch is, Peter Sutcliffe comes on stage at the end, and says how he is so very sorry for all of it.

  3. Sealionettes

    *The Japanese Plan to set the Forests of California alight with Weather-balloons laden with bombs, timed just right to go off when above California.

  4. Been Winning So Long, I've Lost It - The Long War TL

    I too am intrigued by this. With McCain in power, it makes me wonder if they'd even bother going into Iraq in the first place, especially if they get Osama in the Winter of '01. As to Afghanistan, I suspect it will remain a sinkhole, but perhaps a stronger, more willing Coalition, might be able...

  5. Stalingrad on the Tigris:

    I think it might have been possible to create the scenario you describe in the First Gulf War. Had the US not spent weeks-months beforehand softening both Iraq and Iraqi-held Kuwait with massive aerial firepower, it is entirely possible that the Iraqis would have been able to hold a defensive...

  6. A very James Bondian trigger for a Cold War crisis: the Soviets shoot down Challenger

    Wait, that sounds familliar... didn't they make like 3 or 4 of those movies already in OTL? :p Space Cowboys aside, I think that space millitarization really is totally impractical, no matter how much money you throw at it. Remember, they were talking about Orion Spaceships and Nuclear Missile...

  7. Our Man in Belfast

    Also watching with keen interest. Given how I'm researching Ireland and the IRA for my own personal curiousity, This timeline could not have come at a better time. I hope you don't mind if i take notes from your ATL for my own research. :D

  8. Pop Culture and the IRA

    This is a Discussion more than a True WI or AH Challenge or anything of the sort, and one I hope to keep reasonably apolitical, if at all possible. Basically, a Friend forwarded a reasonably good ditty by the Wolfe Tones. However, when I looked for more songs by this band, It became quickly...

  9. DBWI- What if Labour had lost in '92?

    Please. The Conservative Party was a dead horse. John Major is arguably one of the most boring and uninspiring men to have ever lived. It is highly unlikely that, had the stars aligned unfavourably and somehow prevented Kinnock from obtaining power, we would have had anything but four more years...

  10. DBWI Stalin as Soviet leader

    I have to agree, however reluctantly, with my deranged and deluded bourgeois capitalista friends here. It is unlikely that a man such as Iosef Dzhugashivili had the ability or willpower to ascend to such ranks. At pest, he'd have remained Editor of Pravda, with promotion to Treasurer of the...

  11. AH Challenge: Yugoslavia-Wank

    True, but I know next to nothing about the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and anyway, Tito is much more interesting IMHO. :P But if you want to be a Captain-Literal, I have no objections to Kingdom of Yugoslavia-wanks. :D

  12. AH Challenge: Yugoslavia-Wank

    With a POD no earlier than 1945(obviously), create as powerful and as long-lasting a Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as possible. Bonus points if it out-lasts the USSR (plausibly) and manages to reasonably gain Albania or Bulgaria. Some suggestions as to how this might be...

  13. The Right Honourable J. Enoch Powell, Prime Minister of the UK

    I think Powell, ironically, sabotaged his chances of becoming Prime Minister with the Rivers of Blood speech. He made the speech out of a growing personal frustration with the administration at the time, and out of a desire to draw attention to himself. I don't necessarily view Powell as an...

  14. BardWI: WI Operation Sealion Was Succesful

    I read a book once called Fatherland, about a Nazi Germany covering most of Europe. It was really good, and had Britain as a nazi-supporting country or something. Maybe Seallion was successful in that Timeline? Also, why don't more people write books about Nazi Germany? There's hardly any...

  15. New Coke a smashing success

    Conspiracy Hour! New Coke IS Coke Classic! Ingredient X was removed because the Illuminati determined that the continous reformulation of America's beloved beverages and snack foods towards increasing blandness would lull the masses into apathy and laziness. More seriously, New Coke...

  16. NOOBWI- British Empire still strongest country in the world

    The British Empire would clearly have won the Second World War without aid from the rapscallion colonies, and ended up in Cold War with the Soviet Union. Making full use of its Free Trade links, the British Empire would have reformed immediately along Friedmann's lines, exploiting its...

  17. DBWI: Should Japan be opened to the modern world

    Its true that isolationism has had a profound effect for the positive, but economically and politically, Japan is practically non-existent. And you can't honestly tell me that this "Reservation Zone" has been truly respected for the last 60 years. Countless efforts by criminal black market...

  18. DBWI: Lloyd Bridges not in Star Trek!

    Its possible they'd have got Deforrest Kelly to play him... He was auditioned, I think, and Gene had worked with him before. However, his casting as the garrulous Ship's Doctor was more in line with his previous experience. Thats not to say he couldn't have played a different role, of course...

  19. Stalin dies before he can purge anyone!

    Well, if Stalin dies before he offs Kirov in a show-trial, (which is usually considered the start-point of the purges) Then Kirov would probably be the one tipped to replace Stalin. I don't think they'd revert to social democracy or anything- I think the USSR would definitely remain, although...

  20. How could Norway become a great power?

    Norway can easily become a great power Before 1500...but after would require some way of negating the Kalmar Union between Sweden and Denmark, and at the same finding a way of severely weakening Sweden without it then being subsequently gobbled up either by Russia or Poland, depending on the...
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