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May 9, 2008

It's Contest-In-Context Time!

Contest Space-Time Continuum Time, actually. Here's a sample from Abyss & Apex:

11/15/2104 At 14:52:28, FreedomFighter69 wrote: Reporting my first temporal excursion since joining IATT: have just returned from 1936 Berlin, having taken the place of one of Leni Riefenstahl's cameramen and assassinated Adolf Hitler during the opening of the Olympic Games. Let a free world rejoice!

At 14:57:44, SilverFox316 wrote:
Back from 1936 Berlin; incapacitated FreedomFighter69 before he could pull his little stunt. Freedomfighter69, as you are a new member, please read IATT Bulletin 1147 regarding the killing of Hitler before your next excursion. Failure to do so may result in your expulsion per Bylaw 223.

At 18:06:59, BigChill wrote:
Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what's the harm?

At 18:33:10, SilverFox316 wrote:
Easy for you to say, BigChill, since to my recollection you've never volunteered to go back and fix it. You think I've got nothing better to do?

Got the idea? Go back in time, do something cool, then yak about it. Or *un*do somebody's cool deed or farcup.

My example, reference *this* episode:

08/25/2104 At 04:32:45, CageyHajii502 wrote: Just returned from 24 Feb 2008. Filched the last two soap dishes from the PX/BX at FOB Warrior, Kirkuk (old spelling) in Iraq, thus compelling one W. Tuttle, an obscure US contractor, to procure a soap dish from Husam ("Sam") Ramaad, future CEO of the Kurdish Free State and Alpine Resort Association, who was then-proprietor of a small sundries shop. The results of the transaction were two-fold:

1. Sam sold Tuttle the last soap dish available in what was then Northern Iraq, thereby compelling al-Qaeda-in-Iraq soap dish foragers to return to Mosul empty-handed one week later. AQI members were left with no option but to leave their sole bar of soap on a nearby rock during their ablutions; nettle spines which had settled on the rock during the previous day's sandstorm adhered first to the soap and then to AQI members during subsequent ablutions, resulting in a 99% death rate from terminal rectal itch and reducing the remainder of the organization to committing random acts of jaywalking.

2. Sam used the cash (USD1) to corner the dust market in Kurdistan and, when the haute coutoure bunch declared khaki talcum powder the "absolute must-have" accessory for 2009, Sam became the wealthiest man east of the Greenwich Meridian.

The rest, as we now know, is history. Go pound sand, SilverFox316.

Hat Trick Tip to JMH, via the Flea.

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fdcol63 briefed on May 9, 2008 6:48 AM

Alt history is fun to speculate. Here's another one:

At 18:47:29, Obamamaniak wrote: I told FreedomFighter69 not to assassinate Hitler. It led to exactly the results I mentioned in my last post: 1) A civil war in Germany, that cost 25,000 lives; 2) More purges by Stalin, leading to another 300,000 deaths in the USSR; 3) Continued depression in the US, resulting in increased numbers of infant mortality and euthenasia among seniors; and 4) independence revolutions in colonial India, Indo-China, Canada and Australia; 5) the Arab genocide of Jews in the British mandate in Palestine.

Millions have died because of FreedomFighter69's grandiose and selfish attempt to prevent WW2.

fdcol63 briefed on May 9, 2008 7:14 AM

This is off topic, but:

If the Dem establishment and superdelegates now confirm Obama's nomination, and if Hillary's desire to run continues to take precedence (in her mind, at least, to party cohesiveness), wouldn't it be great if Hillary decided to continue her campaign as an "independent"?

Boquisucio briefed on May 9, 2008 7:43 AM

Nettles Abaft! Now, that's a prickly situation.

BillT briefed on May 9, 2008 8:01 AM

Ooooh!

07/05/2114 At 04:32:45, Cassandra502 wrote: Have just returned from May 20, 2008, immediately following B.H. Obama's declaration of victory as the (then)Democrat Party's nominee in the 2008 POTUS race. Convinced Mrs. Clinton to continue her quest for the Co-Presidency as an Independent, citing the success of J. Lieberman over what's-his-face in Rhodecticut.

The resulting kerfluffery fragmented the roller$kating a$$hat wing to the point that President Cindy McCain issued Executive Order 3.14, establishing Endangered Moonbat preserves on Alaska's North Slope, next to the drilling rigs.
Unfortunately, most were crushed by glaciers during the Little Ice Age of 2014.

BloodSpite briefed on May 9, 2008 8:27 AM
07/05/2114 At 18:32:45, BloodSpite007 wrote: Have just returned from June 17, 1972, whereupon I removed from functionality the carbon based unit known as Frank Wills at 14:00 in the afternoon preventing him from reporting to his job that evening.

The end result is a last minute replacement from a local truck stop is brought in to take his place, who spends his night watching Baseball instead of performing regular patrols.

Richard Nixon never resigns from office.

Heh. hehehehehehe.

J.M. Heinrichs briefed on May 9, 2008 12:57 PM

Eve: Gooseberry bad; wait for Kiwi.

Cheers

BillT briefed on May 10, 2008 3:53 AM

Gooseberry bad; wait for Kiwi.

What's Murray got to do with horticulture?

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