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WI : No Cola Wars?
The world of snacks would also look very different, not sure that Lays becomes a dominant global (or even US) brand without the merger with Pepsi- Word Count: 26
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Paleofuture. Part 6: Emprise
I'll have to try and find this series, because it sounds really interesting. The fission blanket reminded me of the satellite in The Tower King, which prevented electricity working - a cool maguffin which would have wider implications than the plot required. -
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The D'Oliveira Affair of 1968
A really good read David, just shows how much the political can focus down to a single person (see also, New Zealand rugby tours) -
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How To Kill a Football Club
I touched on that in a previous article - the FAI basically went "Nope" -
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How To Kill a Football Club
I'd forgotten about Aldershot. Accrington Stanley went the same route -
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How To Kill a Football Club
The list is long. It might be shorter to write a list of English teams who haven't had a near-extinction event. Sheffield Wednesday only avoided bankruptcy due to the Co-op Bank (I think) in 2010. Their current finances are ... interesting Leicester and Leeds have well known financial... -
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How To Kill a Football Club
Yes, tend to agree. I don't think it is realistic for all 20 teams to be gone from the top flight, but there is no guarantee that any given one will still be here (if that makes sense). Bury, Maidstone, Aldershot (that I can recall) are exceptions in failure in the league, but Scarborough... -
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How To Kill a Football Club
I'm pretty sure I could have run down all the current 92 and found a way to derail them. As the saying goes "The way to make a small fortune in football is to start off with a large fortune" -
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On Trial. Day 13.
Amazed at the limited deployment of tactical nuclear weapons really. It was only desperation on the Cisalpine front, but the threat of League of Nations intervention prevented use in any major population centres -
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On Trial. Day 12
Bradman is definitely in a class of his own. Second best? Well, we can rule out male football players, as no-one can agree who the best player ever is. Likewise, hoe do you separate Federer, Nadal and Djokovic from McEnroe and Connors. A few candidates spring to mind - Simone Biles is the most... -
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On Trial. Day 9.
19th May as Commonwealth Day in a world where the Restoration doesn't happen, or perhaps a date associated with the establishment of The Protectorate. -
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On Trial. Day 8
The original Games were, of course, a religious event as well. At the very least, I can imagine a world where there is a Catholic Olympics, a Protestant Olympics and an Orthodox Olympics, which some of the inclusions based on some very Ulster-like questions ("Yes, but are you a Catholic Muslim... -
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On Trial. Day 6
As per Science of the Discworld, maybe it was, but one of the mass-extinction events removed all traces. I think octopoid civilisation is underused (40 years of RPG/Fantasy literature has shown me every kind of insertanimalhereman I can think of) -
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On Trial. Day 4.
I did toy with idea of appointing various Hundred Acre Wood animals to cabinet positions, but it all fell apart when I realised Pooh would be caught in a honey trap pretty quickly