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Good to know, but what was Dooly, Inc.'s connection to Ren & Stimpy?
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Dooly, Inc. was founded by cartoonists Larry Ruperts & Jack Warner in 1938. They created the cat & chihuahua duo in 1942, and became the company's mascots shortly after.
As an addendum to my post, here's the plot:
What if The Great Gatsby was published in the 2020s?
In the spring of 2018, Iraq War veteran Nick Carraway moves to New York City on the eastern side of the Bronx, having been bored with his writing career and wanting to trade in the stock market for the past while. He reads about the place for a while, and learns about Jay Gatsby (played as a Jake Paul figure), a millionaire who inherited money from his parents after they died. Gatsby also happens to host huge parties with tons of other people nearby, promoting it on social media. To his surprise, Gatsby is actually a block away from the apartment he's currently renting.
He decides to visit another mansion over on Long Island where he finds his influencer cousin, Daisy Buchanan. She's married to former football star Tom Buchanan, who has a wealthy family and knew Nick during his college days. Both of them originally came from Chicago before moving to New York City. They and Nick have dinner at the house, and they introduce him to Jordan Baker, golf athlete and Internet sensation. Jordan tells Nick that Tom has a mistress, May Wilson, who often calls him, and lives in Hunts Point, one of the poorer areas of New York. That evening, Nick sees Gatsby on a dock near his apartment, looking out into the distance at a green light...
The next morning, Nick reluctantly goes with Tom to go visit Manhattan, stopping by a garage owned by George Wilson, and May, his wife. They head off to Manhattan accompanied by May, and stay at a room Tom had rented. A party ensues, ending when Tom slaps May and breaks her nose for mentioning Daisy.
One day, Nick receives an invitation to one of Gatsby's parties (who normally do not invite people) and decides to attend. He feels embarassed that he knows nobody there and begins drinking, until Jordan comes up to him. They meet a man who introduces himself as Jay Gatsby, who claims that they both served in the 3rd Infantry Division during the war. Gatsby attempts to become friends with Nick, and when Nick leaves, he notices Gatsby staring at him.
In late July, Gatsby and Nick have lunch at a cocktail bar, with Gatsby telling Nick about how he fought during the Iraq War and his education at Oxford. They dine along with his friend Meyer Wolfsheim, who is an avid cryptocurrency trader. Afterwards, Nick has dinner with Jordan, who reveals that Gatsby and Daisy met back in 2013, while Gatsby was still at a military base in the US. The two fell in love, but when Gatsby was deployed to Iraq, Daisy grew impatient and reluctantly married Tom. Gatsby, she tells him, thinks that his wealth and the parties he hosts will make her reconsider. Nick helps Gatsby to meet Daisy again, and the latter two embark on a sexual affair. Months later, Gatsby tells Nick that he is actually James Gatz, born from a poor North Dakotan family. His path to success came when he met Dan Cody, a middle-class yacht driver, who he became friends with and served under. When Cody dies, Gatsby is cheated out of his wealth by Cody's mistress, but he remarks that he then had the tools to assist his future success.
In September, Tom discovers the affair when Daisy intimately addresses Gatsby in front of him. At the Plaza Hotel, Tom angrily confronts Gatsby and Daisy, with Gatsby telling Daisy to just renounce her love for Tom. Daisy then claims she loves both men, infuriating both. Tom then reveals that Gatsby and Wolfsheim had both engaged in illegal cryptocurrency trading, scamming millions of dollars — the unseen secret to his success. Daisy hears this and decides to stay with Tom, but he scornfully tells Gatsby to drive her home, knowing that Daisy will never leave him.
On the way to Gatsby's house, they stop over at George Wilson's garage. When they leave, May runs right in front of them (May and George had been arguing minutes before about them moving out west), and May gets killed in the ensuing collision. Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy, who was driving at that moment, was temporarily shocked and drove the car right into May. He also says that he intends to take the blame to protect Daisy; Nick tells him to leave to avoid prosecution, but he refuses. Tom tells George that the owner of the car who hit May was Gatsby, and a distraught George assumes that Gatsby must be May's mistress. Days after May's death, George shows up at Gatsby's mansion before shooting him multiple times in his own swimming pool. George then commits suicide.
Several days later, Gatsby's father Henry Gatz arrives at Gatsby's funeral. Nick becomes disillusioned with New York after that, believing that he, Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom were all Midwesterners unaccustomed to Eastern life.
Nick encounters Tom and initially refuses to shake his hand. Tom admits he was the one who told George that Gatsby owned the car that killed Myrtle. Before returning to the Midwest, Nick returns to Gatsby's mansion and stares across the bay at the green light emanating from the end of Daisy's dock.
EDIT 15/12/2022: Update based off of a post on r/books about adapting Gatsby in the modern era.
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You LITERALLY copy/pasted the Wikibox from the Wikipedia article and changed the name of the director and passed it off as your own work.
That is straight Plagiarism. Plagiarism is unacceptable here.
Kicked for a week.
NOTE: This is a One Bite Offense. You just had yours.
In his defense the movie is famously known for being the worst movie in the X-Men trilogy because the director of the first 2, Bryan Singer, did not return for X3 (he left to make Superman Returns) and Brett Ratner (who was previously attached for the Superman movie) took over and made a different movie than what Singer was planning. It's a fairly common "what if?" among superhero and X-Men movie fans. I grant that this may not be apparent immediately because of the infobox having very little context or content otherwise, but I can clearly see what the poster was going for. Wouldn't really classify it as plagiarism, perhaps laziness at worst, a kick seems a bit harsh for that.
Your wishes are my command...
Once again ASB brings back dead presidents and also wipes away term limits I guess. (as well as Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma in '96)
I was the one that suggested the idea to him but now I know that I should have said as well include Sigourney Weaver as Emma Frost and Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty as the writers apprehend me if you must @CalBear
Would a near-future history post regarding the current Russo-Ukrainian War be breaking the rules?
Asking for a friend...
Asking for a friend...
I don't really know what this is, but basically, it's the UK with the French electoral system.
The 1974 British presidential election proved to be one of the most dramatic in British political history. Bogged down by a poor economy and facing threats from the Centre and the Right, the incumbent President Edward Heath failed to progress to the second round. After negotiations, Heath endorsed the Liberal candidate, Jeremy Thorpe, who went on to win by 9 percentage points.
This is the best thing I've seen here in a good while! Really excellent, both creative and clearly high effort - is it part of a wider TL?
Thanks a lot for your praise! No this isn’t part of a larger timeline, I just thought this up and worked on it over a few days. I didn’t put too much effort into it considering the mistakes.
The 1997 Spanish presidential election was held in two rounds on the 7th and 21st September 1997. It saw incumbent President José Mariá Aznar of the PPR running for a second term.
During his first term, Aznar had enacted significant deregulation of the economy and privatization of publicly-owned services, which had deepened unemployment in Spain. His government had also been harsh on Basque nationalism despite its continuation of the ‘dirty war’ investigations, which meant he had faced an assassination attempt by ETA terrorists in 1994. At the time of the election, both due to this and due to the assassination of Basque PPR councilor Miguel Ángel Blanco by the ETA in 1996, he was advocating a zero tolerance stance on terrorism and supported the Foro Ermua counter-terrorist group.
The PSOE nomination was initially expected to be a bitter contest, with the frontrunners being Joaquín Almunia and José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero; incumbent leader Javier Solana had chosen to run instead for the position of Prime Minister. However, in a surprising turn of events in January 1997 former President Felipe González announced his return to the political arena, having spent the time since he left the Presidency taking a prominent role for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)’s response to the Yugoslav Wars. This had kept him in the public eye and improved his reputation, particularly in his response to the Serbian protests that forced the Milošević government to recognize the 1996 local election results.
After González was nominated, Aznar’s campaign started to focus heavily on allegations of corruption that had taken place under the PSOE’s 12 years of government to discourage leftist support for the former President. At first this did manage to undermine his campaign, and in the first round of the election Aznar came just ahead of González. In response, González focused on demonstrating he wished to adopt ‘better-informed’ stances and ‘look to the future’ despite his age and long history in politics. He benefitted from the vocal support of recently elected British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, whose support for him over Aznar strengthened his credentials on the world stage further.
A crucial moment came in the debates held between the two rounds, where the moderator, news anchor Ana Blanco, asked the two candidates what question they would ask of voters. Aznar used his question to González as an opportunity to recount allegations of corruption and support for the GAL during his government, and accuse his message of change of being a front. But González’s question, which he backed up by citing the high unemployment rates and similar allegations towards the Aznar government, was more directed towards the electorate- ‘Why is the current President so insistent on looking to the past in this campaign while I, the former President, am looking to the future?’ Voters generally agreed that González had won the debate, due to this and to his generally more positive performance.
In the second round, González narrowly prevailed in the closest presidential election in Spanish history up to that point, taking 51.9% of the vote to 48.1% for Aznar. Despite González’s victory, the PSOE was not able to overcome the PPR in the Cortes election, leading to a situation of ‘cohabitation’ similar to that occurring in France at the time (though in that country it was instead a conservative President and socialist legislature rather than a socialist President and conservative legislature). The result also marked the first time the PSOE had controlled the Presidency without controlling the Cortes.
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The 1997 Spanish general election was held on the 21st September 1997 to elect the 400 members of the Cortes, the unicameral legislature of Spain. The PPR-led government of Prime Minister Francisco Álvarez–Cascos was running for re-election to a second term.
The election was concurrently with the second round of that year’s presidential election, the first time since 1982 that the two had been elected on the same day. The simultaneous contests, the considerable attention around them and the expectation of close results in both prompted a large spike in turnout, which was estimated at 81.0%, the highest since 1974.
Álvarez–Cascos’s government had become unpopular during its first term for an economic policy that was marked by aggressively deepening neoliberal reforms. Its decision very early in its term to fully privatise Telefónica and Repsol proved controversial, as did the introduction of austerity measures to try to combat the recession that had been affecting Spain’s economy when Álvarez–Cascos came to power. This increased unemployment and caused sizeable public unrest, but did reduce the deficit and allowed Álvarez–Cascos to continue to commit Spain to membership of the European single currency.
The PSOE’s new leader Javier Solana proved an effective opponent to Álvarez–Cascos. He condemned the economic impact of the privatizations and pledged to cease any expansion of them and end austerity if he was elected Prime Minister. He worked hard to build up support from senior politicians by convincing Jorge Verstrynge and all but one of the remaining CDS members to join the PSOE, as well as frequently supporting former President Felipe González with his involvement in the negotiations around the Yugoslav Wars. This raised his profile both nationally and internationally.
All of this allowed Solana and the PSOE to lead the PPR consistently in the opinion polls, and the party’s lead was expanded when González announced he would be running for the Presidency for a third non-consecutive term in January 1997. However, the PSOE lost momentum after President Aznar and Álvarez–Cascos made public records of allegations against the previous PSOE government and the González presidency, with a particular emphasis on the crimes of the GAL death squads.
While González was largely able to combat these allegations effectively, Solana had more difficulty doing so due because they disrupted the coalition building required to form a government given the close circumstances of the ensuing election. The revelations caused negotiations between Solana and smaller party leaders like IU leader Julio Anguita and PNV leader Iñaki Anasagasti to form a common front akin to the ‘Plural Left’ coalition in France for the general election to break down. While Solana was successful in getting Anguita to urge his party’s supporters not to vote for Aznar or Álvarez–Cascos, he did not commit to supporting a PSOE government.
The result was the closest margin between the two largest parties in history, as just 8 seats and 0.9% of the popular vote separated the PPR and PSOE. Álvarez–Cascos declared the day after the election that as his government had come first, it was entitled to form another government, while the newly elected President González stated that Solana had told him he would seek to form a government. Public opinion proved very divided, as an October 1997 poll found that 47% of Spanish voters believed Álvarez–Cascos should be re-elected while 46% believed Solana should be made Prime Minister.
Protracted negotiations took place to form a new government over the next five months, with the possibility of another election discussed repeatedly. Ultimately, a PPR government led by Álvarez–Cascos was finally formed after winning a vote in the Cortes with the support of the PRD, PNV and smaller nationalist groups on the 11th February 1998. This ultimately led to Solana resigning as leader of the PSOE and Anguita as leader of IU.
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