I’m great in bed

people ask the question of would you go back in time to kill hitler as a baby to prevent WW2? But i am not sure that killing him (or even encouraging him to just be an artist) would prevent the war. that idea supposes that there is no other man (or group of men) who was 1.mad about losing WW1, 2. angry about gemany having to pay reparations to the winners of that war. which lead to 3. an economic depression years before the one in the 1930s. any of his top officials, or generals; himmler, gobbeles, rommel, or goring could’ve been “der fuhrer” (which means the leader, if you didn’t know).
i go back & forth on if the holocaust would be a part of an alternate version of WW2. because a lot of hitler’s top men shared his beliefs, but who knows what would’ve happened if they didn’t have someone encouraging their hate.

most likely in order to prevent WW2, you have to prevent WW1. also in this situation, it’s not just about one man; the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand was just the catalyst, or excuse, to start the war. there were people chafing under austro-hungarian rule. kaiser wilhelm II was jealous of the british empire, angry about his messed up left arm & not being as tall as he wanted to be. not to mention how his father, frederick III, might have handled things if he lived longer. princesses of denmark, alexandra & dagmar (maria feodoravna), telling their husbands, edward VII & tsar alexander III respectively, not to trust prussia/germany. which influenced what their sons, king george VI & tsar nicholas II did. because of a war the prussians/germans pursued to get some disputed territory in denmark, a war they won & had denmark pay reparations for*. sound familiar?

and in order to prevent WW1, you probably have to prevent a dozen, or more, wars and conflicts going back at least 100 years before that. of course preventing WW1 would leave the map of europe looking very different, not to mention all of those royal houses staying intact. speaking of royalty; would there have been a russian revolution which lead to the tsar and his family being arrested and executed? and if there was a revolution, could the royal family have found refuge with some other royal house in europe? or would they have been afraid of backlash like king george VI was?


*i probably only have like 50% of all of this correct.

( MASH (TV), any, everyone getting obsessed with a new entertainment of some kind )


and another fill, plus more replies have been added to my prompt of Ask This Old House, anthropomorphic house, Someone takes the title seriously & asks an old house a question.

we were watching the first episode of 8 Days That Made Rome, about the 8 dates that made the roman republic (later empire) what it was. the episode was about 202 BCE when rome defeated carthage, under general hannibal, at the battle of zama in modern day Tunisia & the events leading up to the battle.
my brother said if rome had lost carthage might have been the big empire & we'd be saying stuff like "carthage wasn't built in a day" or "all roads lead to carthage".
which got me thinking.

if they had won would carthage just leave rome with 10 war ships like rome had done with them? would there be a senator (or whatever carthage had) pushing for rome to be destroyed like cato the elder did? carthage might have taken over the italian peninsula & built their empire from there, like a revers roman empire (geographical wise).

would carthage have been as ruthless as rome had been in expanding their boarders? would they have cooperated with other powers in the mediterranean? greece wasn't what it used to be. egypt was in the ptolemaic dynasty by that time & it's likely carthage would've taken over there, as the romans did in 30 BCE. carthage might have been allies with the kingdom of pontus & not have expanded in that area.

in history there wouldn't be any of the big roman names we know now; no gaius julius caesar (no caesar salad or casino either), or gnaeus pompey magnus. no pliny the younger who wrote so many letters that are of historic value. no pliny the elder (his uncle) who wrote the encyclopedic naturalis historia (natural history) and died during the eruption of mount vesuvius (not doubt under a different name) trying to rescue people. and for that matter, would there be something like the ruins at pompeii and herculaneum? some other cities in different locations? no major settlements there at all?

would there be a religion called carthageian catholic? or would catholicism have been based in naples (established by the greeks before all of this) instead, or somewhere else?

thanks for coming to my talk on alternative ancient history.

someone on one of the social media things i go to said that some names of furniture would make interesting kids names. so, i went with it.

( you will not find these on a key chain )


when i mentioned this to my brother he said some names of fabric would make interesting kids names.

( not likely to be in the top 200 baby names of the year )

inspired by skippy’s list of things i am no longer allowed to do in the u.s. army. like that list, everything here was something the writer did, something they saw happen (or heard of happening), something they were spontaneously informed they were not allowed to do, a clarification of one of the above things in the list, or were just minding their business when something happened.

1. Give the vulcan greeting with the palm facing away from the recipient.
2. Refer to bolians as blueberries.
3. Trade klingons prune juice for any spare parts, food, weapons, animal pelts, art, a targ (even if it is a prize-winning one), shuttlecrafts/starships, or clothing items.
4. Or trade for anything else.
5. Tell newly arrived ensigns that the ship made the kessel run in 12 parsecs.
6. Take a shuttlecraft out to pick up raktajino for the overnight bridge crew.
7. Sell taxidermied tribbles to tourists.
8. Suggest that officers of higher rank take shore leave on a class Y planet.
9. Respond to any order with “yes, boss!”
10. Say, suggest, hint or otherwise imply that the ghostbusters are the best way to “deal” with uncooperative non-corporeal life forms.
11. Give a box of extra large cotton swabs to any ferengi.
12. Shout “there can only be one!” before playing a match of anbo-jitsu.
13. Use a shuttlecraft as collateral while playing a dabo game.
14. Use a shuttlecraft as collateral for anything.
15. Throw taxidermied tribbles at anyone. No matter how much they “deserved it.”
16. Refer to romulans as discount vulcans.
17. The proper way to report to the shift commander is not “it wasn’t me.”
18. Play music or stand-up comedy routines over the ship’s coms because “patrolling the neutral zone is boring af.”
19. Tell the horta that rock gardens are a buffet.
20. Use the floor of a cargo bay & cargo containers to play a giant game of kadis-kot.
21. The proper answer in roll call is “here.” not “that’s my name, don’t wear it out.”
22. Ask ambassadors that board the ship for a “boarding tax” of a bottle of whatever liquor their planet is known for.
23. Also not any food, clothing, or jewelry their planet is known for.
24. Begin a question with “riddle me this.”
25. Keep a stash of snacks anywhere, except for their crew quarters.
26. Nap in the jefferies tubes.
27. Start a cult. No matter how much support there is for it.
28. Refer to starfleet, or the federation, as a cult.
29. Not authorized to declare war games on any ship, starbase or planetside base.
30. Including & especially not their own.
31. Refer to newly arrived ensigns as “the children.”
32. Write mission reports in any poetic form.
33. Especially in limericks.
34. Change it so the characters in popular holodeck programs speak pig-latin.
35. Use the replicators to create food or drink described as “unholy concoctions” & dare people to consume them.
36. Even if sickbay is alerted before doing so.

*tried to keep it limited to general trek (older stuff, not new), so there's no reference to characters or ships. Although certain species and things were not known to humans during the ENT era.

last year i realized that my brother & i could be connected to kevin bacon trough the movie gettysburg via a neighbor's sons.

i wasn't going to bother to find out how but then i found a site to help determine your number from gothiccharmschool .

how it works: put in the most famous person you or someone you know or someone you know knows Etc. has met and use that number to figure out your connection.

the two guys we know who were extras in the movie gettysburg.
martin sheen was in that movie, he was in JFK with bacon & that makes sheen's number 1.
so, the guys we know would be a 2 & that makes ours a 3. i think.

you may have heard about this thing that started on tumblr & got kind of big. this post on tumblr explains where it started. basically, someone got boots with a label that mentioned a scorsese produced movie from like 1973 that doesn’t exist. and it snowballed from there. someone made a poster with the cast. people have done fanart (including a review from gene siskel before he joined ebert on TV), fan fiction, some have even created music for it.

There’s a tv tropes page which is the movie in a way. i think there are gifs or stills from movies of the mid ‘70s with actors from the poster & lines they made up too. If you click on the this tag on tumblr you can see what people have made.


so, i decided to go join in the madness.

( it’s not a movie, it’s an experience )

the amazing race is coming back on sept. 21. i wonder if they're still going to follow their COVID protocols?

in bigger news ghost adventures is coming back on sept. 15. it's bigger news because ever since discovery+ started all of the new episodes have been on there. so since like feb./mar. 2021.

with the mess that is HBOmax/Discovery+/CNN/Etc. we wondered if they might have the older episode were we could see them (on the travel channel) at least. i wonder if we can see the older ones we missed at some point?

just in time for the halloween season.

this reminds me that i did a ghost adventures drinking game a few years ago.
some of the stuff doesn't really apply for the past few seasons. they don't go around in a van like they used to, they don't have an expert analyze evidence at the end any more.

for some reason i was thinking about of the shirtless scenes scott bakula has done & how many were for ST: ENT. and then i thought how that compares to the other trek series (i don't acknowledge know nothing about the live action series after ENT).

TOS had kirk shirtless a few times. spock once, sulu as well & i think that was it.

TNG didn't have shirtless scenes, if i recall. picard & riker had open shirts or low cut ones. picard was stripped naked for torture, which doesn't count.

i don't recall shirtless scenes on DS9, just a lot of tank tops.

the same for VOY & chakotay stripped to "go native" for some reason one time. but they didn't really show his chest.

ENT really made up for it though. their whole thing was a young & sexy kind of attitude. i mean, right off the bat they had that decontamination chamber scene. and then they kept it going with archer & tucker going shirtless (& and wearing those blue undies) whenever possible.

i think you all know about this, it's a parlor game where players challenge each other to arbitrarily choose an actor and then connect them to another actor via a film that both actors have appeared in together, repeating this process to try and find the shortest path that ultimately leads to prolific actor kevin bacon. it rests on the assumption that anyone involved in the hollywood film industry can be linked through their film roles to bacon within six steps.

well, not long ago i realized that me (& my brother) could possibly be connected to bacon too. it's through the movie gettysburg (1993). 2 of the neighbor's sons had a civil war reenactor phase & were extras in the movie (confederate solders). ted turner (who had an uncredited role) let them use his cell phone to call their mother. keep in mind this was '92 or '93, almost no one had a cell phone. mostly just rich people, like turner. so they were the first ones we knew that had even seen a cell phone in real life, much less used one.

and since we've met them, we're one step closer to bacon, not like "we know a guy whose sons were in this movie." kind of thing.

however, knowing this does not make me want to figure out exactly how we could be 6 (or fewer) degrees away from kevin bacon. just knowing that there's a possibility of it is interesting enough.