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  1. 1960s Soft Drink WI

    In 1964, when Atlanta businesses threatened to boycott a dinner saluting Dr. Martin Luther King's then recent victory of the Nobel Peace Prize, and ticket sales were almost non-existent, Coca-Cola famously threatened to move out of the city and state of Georgia. The threat worked, because...

  2. What if: A different Good Friday

    It is during the 14th full year of the rule of Caesar Tiberius. In Jerusalem, the day following the evening of the observation of the Feast of Passover, as the opening of the greater observation of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Pontius Pilate has been called to judge in the matter of one...

  3. Amusement Park Alternate History WIs

    1: What if Cedar Fair acquired Beach Bend (Bowling Green, KY) Lake Winnemauga (Chattanooga, Tenn), and Lake Compounce when they were for sale in the late Eighties/early Nineties. 2: What if Paramount had acquired Action Park (New Jersey) in the Mid-Nineties, about the same time it had acquired...

  4. Computer What-If, Jack Tramiel Has A Clue:

    While Andrew T and I have cooked up several ideas for 1987 and beyond for Dirty Laundry and Living in the Past, recently, several new computing ideas have been swimming through my head that just compel me to put them to this board. I know not the exact POD (Probably have to be some time in the...

  5. Hitler Makes Better Use of the Pact of Steel

    What if in 1936-7, Hitler declared that any further purchases of arms by Chinese forces had to be finalized by the redemption of certain "coupons." Specifically, the heads of various Chinese Communist leaders (by name). This Xanatos gambit has several possible long-term outcomes...

  6. Computer WI: The Second Intifada's most serendipitous casualty:

    The original Intel Core and Core2 microarchitectures were introduced in 2006, developed at Intel's Israel R&D center over the course of 2003-2006. It was the architecture with which Intel took back the X86 performance crown from AMD, whose Athalon64 architecture and variants/successors forced...

  7. Brainstorming for a TL: The Brave Series comes to America

    in 1988, Transformers mania was winding down in Japan, and the two companies most responsible for its exposure there, Takara (who made the toys) and Sunrise (who did the in-between work on the shows for Hanna-Barbera and Sunbow in exchange for the rights to East Asian dubs and distribution...

  8. Paul Ceglia beats Mark Zuckerburg in court

    This is possibly the first thread on this website in this forum inspired by an episode of American Greed. For the purposes of this what if, the POD is a sleeper, that awakens when Paul Ceglia's Mother's computer is discovered to have Ceglia's version of Page One of the StreetFax/PageBook...

  9. AH Contest: Frozen in even more languages:

    Disney's most recent in-studio animated feature, Frozen, has set incredible cinematic records. It is the highest grossing feature Disney has released under its own name. It is the highest grossing animated feature at the box office, even taking inflation into account (Snow White and the Seven...

  10. Cars that could have been:

    We all have heard of stories of car models that nearly happened, but for whatever reason were shelved. Sometimes this is a bullet dodged, like the Mazda MX-6-based Ford Mustang that became the Ford Probe, or the GM W-Body front drive Camaro/Firebird. This is not that post. This post, and...

  11. DBWI: The Germans didn't sink the Titanic

    On May 7th, 1915, the RMS Titanic was sunk in the English Channel, only hours away from its home port of Southampton with casualties of just under 1,300 due to inadequate lifeboats. The revelation of a secret munitions cargo when a New York Times fact checker compared photographs of the ship as...

  12. Grab Bag of Computer Software What-Ifs

    1: What if Broderbund managed to keep making hits after Prince of Persia, so that it never had to spin off Adobe, and then go broke anyway? 2: What if David Rosen stays more involved with Sega after 1987 and his heirs don't sell their stock in the company in the open market? 3: What if...

  13. Robert Jordan and David Drake die in Vienam

    No, I'm not talking about the partner in Baker Botts who represented the Shrub during the Harken Energy debacle, I am talking about the Robert Jordan who is most famous for writing Conan stories and the Wheel of Time. WI he and David Drake had died in the line of duty during their tours in the...

  14. DBWH: IMDB Entry

    Computer Geeks 1998-2012, TV Series, TV14, 1 hour, TechTV Summary: Fictionalized dramatization of the early years of corporate manuvers and politicking of personal computing in Soap Opera format, begining with the debut of the Vega Core System, the Plum Technologies Model A, and the EB Z8...

  15. Yet another Post-Nazi Victory WI:

    Allegedly, Adolf Hitler invisioned Welthauptstadt Germania in part as a means of revenge against the voters of Berlin for not voting for him in the elections of 1932 and 1933, by making hundreds of thousands of them in those parts of the city that most hevily voted against him homeless...

  16. My proposal for '80s comic book movies:

    DC: I find I can't improve on OTL choices of Christopher Reeve, Lynda Carter, Michael Keaton, and John Wesley Shipp for Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and the Barry Allen Flash, but here are my ideas for the rest: Batman, five or so films directed by Tim Burton Fred Gwaynne or Frank...

  17. Other Science Fiction and Fantasy literature turned into shows and movies:

    In "That Wacky Redhead," I have mentioned the attempt by MGM/Universal to bring Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant to the silver screen that resulted in a (to massively understate matters) rather large difference in opinion as to how to procede from the material. But there...

  18. Martial Arts WI: Korean Text Found in 1949

    To someone with a very suspicious mind, more time on his hands to watch You Tube than is healthy, a superficially broad martial arts experience, and a desire to stir up hornet's nests of artifical contraversey, watching a typical Korean martial arts demonstration, with few exceptions, conveys a...

  19. Pop Culture Challenge: Alien vs. Predator series incorporated into both canons:

    Spoilers! As we have recently seen, both Prometheus and Predators have chosen to effectively ignore the two Alien vs. Predator movies. Which is pretty sad, considering that the Dark Horse comic series that provided the original crossover in the first place was incredible. Unfortunately, the...

  20. Wrestling WIs:

    1. WI during the 1981-83 period, either Greg Gagne insists on no uncertain terms to his father Verne that he wants to come in from the cold to the front office of the AWA, or some sort of injury sidelines his career and Nick Bockwinkle's, forcing Verne to turn to Hulk Hogan as the face of the...
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