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What if????

Post by Don't Panic » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:24 pm

This forum needs a new(old) game so, how about this one?
One person posts a premise, anyone interested posts what they think would have been the most likely outcome, and then we all argue about it and never speak to each other again. :D


An easy one to start: What if the USA had received 24 hours advance notice of the impending attack on Pearl harbour?
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Re: What if????

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:32 pm

Fuck you heretic! :pissed:
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Re: What if????

Post by Pappa » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:34 pm

They would have let it happen anyway because they wanted a reason to go to war. :shifty:



What if bananas weren't designed to fit perfectly into a human's hand?

Oh wait, we're in history.

What if the Romans had worn the trousers and the Celts had worn the skirts?
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Re: What if????

Post by Don't Panic » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:38 pm

Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Fuck you heretic! :pissed:
No, first you post your theory, then we have the argument. :nono:
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Re: What if????

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:43 pm

Marvin wrote:
Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Fuck you heretic! :pissed:
No, first you post your theory, then we have the argument. :nono:
Are you telling me when I can and cannot argue??!!! :pissed: :pissed: :pissed: :pissed: :pissed:

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Re: What if????

Post by Don't Panic » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:45 pm

Xamonas Chegwé wrote:
Marvin wrote:
Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Fuck you heretic! :pissed:
No, first you post your theory, then we have the argument. :nono:
Are you telling me when I can and cannot argue??!!! :pissed: :pissed: :pissed: :pissed: :pissed:

This place is just like RDF!!!!! :Erasb: :Erasb: :Erasb: :Erasb: :Erasb: :Erasb:






Did I argue good? :tea:
I thought you were Dev there for a minute.... :twisted:
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And those Zumwalts are already useless, they can be taken out with an ICBM.
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened, it's just wonderful. And . . . the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.
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Re: What if????

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:47 pm

Marvin wrote:
Xamonas Chegwé wrote:
Marvin wrote:
Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Fuck you heretic! :pissed:
No, first you post your theory, then we have the argument. :nono:
Are you telling me when I can and cannot argue??!!! :pissed: :pissed: :pissed: :pissed: :pissed:

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Praise indeed - my work here is done. :hum:
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Re: What if????

Post by Trolldor » Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:24 am

Ok,

What if Caesar hadn't been assasinated?

I'd say that Rome would have either never become an empire, or it would have at least been put off for a few years.
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Re: What if????

Post by Pappa » Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:36 am

born-again-atheist wrote:Ok,

What if Caesar hadn't been assasinated?

I'd say that Rome would have either never become an empire, or it would have at least been put off for a few years.
:whisper: You're meant to answer the last "what if", then post your own.
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Post by Trolldor » Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:38 am

Well it was butt-raped by evereyone else.
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Post by leo-rcc » Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:01 am

born-again-atheist wrote:Well it was butt-raped by evereyone else.
You would need a lot of ointment. :)

What if Hitler had given Dönitz the extra years to prepare and total amount of U-boats as he requested before the start of WW2?
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:07 am

leo-rcc wrote:
born-again-atheist wrote:Well it was butt-raped by evereyone else.
You would need a lot of ointment. :)

What if Hitler had given Dönitz the extra years to prepare and total amount of U-boats as he requested before the start of WW2?
The US would have been drawn into the war sooner as the sinking rates soared.
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Post by klr » Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:44 pm

What If?: Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (ed. Robert Cowley)

http://www.amazon.com/What-If-Military- ... pd_sim_b_5

... and guess what :what:, there's a Vol. 2 as well:

More What If?: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been?

http://www.amazon.com/More-What-If-Emin ... pd_sim_b_3

I have both, but I can't recall the contents off the top of my head. I might give a run-down of the contents this evening when I get a chance to look at them. :coffee:
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Post by CJ » Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:52 pm

klr wrote:What If?: Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (ed. Robert Cowley)

http://www.amazon.com/What-If-Military- ... pd_sim_b_5

... and guess what :what:, there's a Vol. 2 as well:

More What If?: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been?

http://www.amazon.com/More-What-If-Emin ... pd_sim_b_3

I have both, but I can't recall the contents off the top of my head. I might give a run-down of the contents this evening when I get a chance to look at them. :coffee:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:52 pm

WW2F.com has a "what-if" forum. You should be loaded for bear before you play with those guys. :o
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