How would you change history?

[Sharwood]

Ewoks make Star Wars cool! That's why I watched it - the Jedi are just extras!

Ewoks made the old Ewoks cartoon show I watched as a kid cool. Not Star Wars.

Did anyone stop to consider that maybe there is a God, and he hates Jews?

 

[Plotinus]

Ewoks made the old Ewoks cartoon show I watched as a kid cool. Not Star Wars.

I can't hear any reference to Ewoks without thinking - "We're the E - E - E - E - E - E - Ewoks!"

Did anyone stop to consider that maybe there is a God, and he hates Jews?

That was pretty much the basis of the Deutsche Christen movement.

 

[Flying Pig]

So He created a punchbag nation? This sounds plausible

 

[Dachs]

I wanna make the Qizilbash rebellion in Ottoman Anatolia work, because it was totally awesome.

So He created a punchbag nation? This sounds plausible

Yes, you have successfully iceburned the pro-Nazi German Lutherans. Congratulations.

 

[Oruc]

Nope!

 

[Flying Pig]

I should remind you that we Brits are the sons of Celts and proud of it!

 

[Plotinus]

Speak for yourself...

 

[JonathanStrange]

Ok, I'm back: when I got to the transmitter, Rico and his band of toughs were already gone. I managed to correct the previous damage to the timeline that resulted in all of us having to dress as chickens (in fact, virtually no one remembers this - except for some unfortunates working for the government).

When everything settles down, we can all have lunch together, assign the blame and work out the guilt issue.

 

[vogtmurr]

Ok, I'm back: when I got to the transmitter, Rico and his band of toughs were already gone. I managed to correct the previous damage to the timeline that resulted in all of us having to dress as chickens (in fact, virtually no one remembers this - except for some unfortunates working for the government).

When everything settles down, we can all have lunch together, assign the blame and work out the guilt issue.

Good, but not all the damage is done yet. I'm still seeing anomalies; Jennifer Lopez didn't get her boob job yet, the Carolina Hurricanes might beat Boston in the Stanley Cup Finals, and Billy Bob Thornton started speaking Arabic at a televised news conference. We have to fix this - somebody knows I have money riding on Boston.

 

[RedRalph]

ethnic cleansing of the Irish and other celtic types

You really are one of the best posters on CFC, know that?

 

[Masada]

You really are one of the best posters on CFC, know that?

He would have to ethnically cleanse himself as well... just smile politely and laugh at the irony.

 

[Flying Pig]

Interesting idea - what if the Romans defended Constantinople in 1457? From there, the would have crippled the Ottomans, since they sent a massive army in, and so maybe led to a second Roman Empire, and no enlightenment, and we would be eating doormice - interesting...

 

[Serutan]

Go to 1812, and tweak Tsar Alexandr I's nervousness about Boney's invasion just enough that he frees the serfs then (rather than the historical date of 1861) to encourage them to resist the French.

 

[Flying Pig]

And tell Mikhail Klashnikov to hiurry up and finish that gun by 1941.

 

[vogtmurr]

Go to 1812, and tweak Tsar Alexandr I's nervousness about Boney's invasion just enough that he frees the serfs then (rather than the historical date of 1861) to encourage them to resist the French.

It's not like the serfs were really needed, and they did participate, willingly or not, in the scorched earth program.

 

[Dachs]

Interesting idea - what if the Romans defended Constantinople in 1457? From there, the would have crippled the Ottomans, since they sent a massive army in, and so maybe led to a second Roman Empire, and no enlightenment, and we would be eating doormice - interesting...

What? That'd be four years too late.

 

[Masada]

What? That'd be four years too late.

At least he got the Roman bit right... although the doormice were a relic of much earlier times.

 

[Dachs]

I'm afraid to talk about the end of the Eastern Empire too much in an alternate history fashion for fear of giving the game away.

 

[Flying Pig]

Got the date wrong - I mean that time where the Turks came to Constantinople with a really big army and invaded it.

 

[aronnax]

Have it that George V of Britain accepted his cousin's request, Nicholas II of Russia to have his family stay in Britain for a while in 1917...