If they had lived now

[EEPhil]

Cyril Smith would be in prison.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Will Shakespeare would be writing scripts for Eastenders. Either that or working in the Ministry of Propaganda.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Cyril Smith would be in prison.

Is there one large enough to hold him? I might need to rephrase that...

 

[EEPhil]

Will Shakespeare would be writing scripts for Eastenders. Either that or working in the Ministry of Propaganda.

Or the Conservative/Labour/Lib Dem manifesto. (delete as preferred). Well, they're all works of fiction.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Columbus would...just go on a cruise, ffs.

 

[EEPhil]

Is there one large enough to hold him? I might need to rephrase that...

The centre of Strangeways might be big enough. Might have to take the roof off and crane him in.

 

[EEPhil]

Jules Verne wouldn't set impossible goals.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Dickens would be tweeting, and saving us from a load of reading.

 

[EEPhil]

Caxton would have invented ebooks.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Johannes Gutenberg would be inventing the Kindle. Adolf would be burning Kindles.

Caxton would have invented ebooks.

Pirated, you mean?

 

[Deleted member 473]

Elizabeth I would knight Francis Drake for bringing back a boat laden with cocaine.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili changes his name to Kevlar and joins the Labour party.

 

[prpr]

Elizabeth I would knight Francis Drake for bringing back a boat laden with cocaine.

illegal immigrants.

 

[Trev]

But Archimedes would still be screwing and parachuting.

 

[EEPhil]

Ethelred would be ready.

 

[EEPhil]

Harold of Hastings would be keeping his eye out for flying objects, whilst advertising insurance.

 

[MikeSh]

Overpopulation would be a bit more of a problem than it already is.

 

[prpr]

Thomas Farriner would have had a fire extinguisher in his bakery.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Thomas Farriner would have had a fire extinguisher in his bakery.

And St Paul's would have a spire.

 

[EEPhil]

If Charles André Joseph Pierre Marie de Gaulle was still alive he would take the focus off Julia Bradbury's nose on the "Hacking Tom Tom" thread.
Ditto Jimmy Durante. Ditto Karl Malden.