That does seem a lot more likely to be honest.The alternative answer is very simple, which is that everyone in the Eurosyn is a wet blanket
That does seem a lot more likely to be honest.The alternative answer is very simple, which is that everyone in the Eurosyn is a wet blanket
That does seem a lot more likely to be honest.
That does sound interesting, seeing what music Bevan permits to be made and which famous artists had 'tragic accidents' and were never seen again. I fully support a deep-dive pop-culture update(s?) being dropped in whenever you feel best, certainly they are much more than just nice set dressing.How interested would people be in a chapter on CW popular music trends in the latter half of the Sixities?
That does sound interesting, seeing what music Bevan permits to be made and which famous artists had 'tragic accidents' and were never seen again. I fully support a deep-dive pop-culture update(s?) being dropped in whenever you feel best, certainly they are much more than just nice set dressing.
As we are in November 1964 I've had a look at the actual Single Chart for that week in history to take a guess at what survived and what has changed;
4. He's In Town - Rockin' Berries. Seem inoffensive enough.
He's In Town said:He's in town
He's back in town
Girl I knew just what was wrong
When you weren't home
Each time I phoned all week long
And now
I see it in your eyes
The look that you have
when you're thinking of him
Can't be disguised
I was afraid he'd come back some day
And I'd be the one to lose
I knew when you saw him
you wouldn't ignore him
And he'd be the one you'd choose
So you don't have to tell me
He's in town
He's back in town
No you don't have to tell me
He's in town
He's back in town
He's in town
VIV: If I may say so, ma'am, I really don't think you give the man on the street enough credit.
BARBARA: Well how else do you expect me to keep inflation under control?
You may have a point. Or perhaps it is the Berries singing a warning about what will happen if certain candidates try to return and are not intercepted by the correct authorities?Hmm… Reading these lyrics I'm not fully convinced that this isn't crypto-mosleyite propaganda about the covert return of an anti-Bevanite poltical candidate.
It is one of the best jokes I've read about price controls (quite a crowded field) and so Redadder's last adventure, which was already excellent, is improved by it's addition.I will also use this opportunity to draw attention to a correction to Redadder's Xmas Carol, which results from an omission I noticed earlier on. In pasting the text over to the forums, I had somehow managed to delete a joke about price controls. (The censorship alive and well, obviously.) The joke's absence I'm sure was keenly felt, and you will all be pleased to know that it has now been reinstated.
You may have a point. Or perhaps it is the Berries singing a warning about what will happen if certain candidates try to return and are not intercepted by the correct authorities?
It is one of the best jokes I've read about price controls (quite a crowded field) and so Redadder's last adventure, which was already excellent, is improved by it's addition.
In Washington, President Kennedy met his Soviet counterpart’s statement with …
More bluster presumably. It's worked well so far. They'll keep at it now till the world ends.
This would make more sense. Depends what "climb down" means though. Less blustery rhetoric and some nice words about free and fair elections in Cuba and a transition back to peace, that all seems fine. But no actual concessions, because there's no reason to.Yes, quite possibly. Or he might exercise a bit of keenness of mind, realise that he's got what he wanted and Khrushchev isn't going to blow up the world for Castro's sake, and that now would be a good time to climb down.
I'm picturing a sad Chairman Faure, sat sitting by a telephone that will never ring.
This would make more sense. Depends what "climb down" means though. Less blustery rhetoric and some nice words about free and fair elections in Cuba and a transition back to peace, that all seems fine. But no actual concessions, because there's no reason to.
Then again, this has been a massive triumph for Kennedy yet his term has been described in previous chapters as "disastrous". He must cock things up spectacularly to outweigh this success, so maybe he fumbles it at the end and snatches defeat from the jaws of victory?
I'm picturing a sad Chairman Faure, sat sitting by a telephone that will never ring.
Aww...
Hmm… maybe it's time for a saucy Echoes spin-off where the US, the USSR and the ES are locked in a deadly love triangle? Something like "Faure's A Crowd: An Enemies-to-Lovers Cold War AU"
One really old crotchy old man. One slightly younger and constantly drunk old man who never got out of his Hitchin's phase. One barely legal wacko who botches to people about restraint and temperance whilst slamming hookers at home and doing lines of anything rolled down.
They all live next to each other. They all hate each other. The really old man and the young fuckup are father and son. Extremly estranged but they have super awkward investments together and no one else really likes them so they end up hanging out a lot.
The super old man dreams of taking over the whole street, like he used to before the other two showed up. The other two have bigger houses either side of him, but both get secretly annoyed that his is somehow better than theirs and he knows it.
All of them are heavily armed and tend to kill anyone they don't like, especially if they say no to something. And every so often, they'll team up to burn down someone else's neighbourhood. And they all despise the neighbours across the channel...er, street. They all want to murder the super old guy directly across from their super old guy, but one of them is always defending him in one of their schemes. They all want to fuck the one in the house next door to that. Hell, pretty much everyone wants to get in bed with them.
For some reason, it never seems to end well.