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President Garfield and Garfield the Cat switch places
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WolfBear
2018-03-04 05:36:42 UTC
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I wanted to do a more humorous question, so here goes:

What if President Garfield and Garfield the Cat switch places? Specifically, I am thinking of Garfield the Cat's mind being put in President Garfield's body (with the help of alien space bats, of course) on January 1, 1881 while President Garfield's mind gets put in Garfield the Cat's body at the start of the Garfield TV series.

Any thoughts on this?
The Old Man
2018-03-04 14:54:07 UTC
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Post by WolfBear
What if President Garfield and Garfield the Cat switch places? Specifically, I am thinking of Garfield the Cat's mind being put in President Garfield's body (with the help of alien space bats, of course) on January 1, 1881 while President Garfield's mind gets put in Garfield the Cat's body at the start of the Garfield TV series.
Any thoughts on this?
Okay, this is silly, but I'm feeling silly....
We'd have a president who is committed to stuffing himself with pizza (although not invented yet 8^C) and lasagna while spending the rest of his time sleeping.
On our end, we'd have a cat who????

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John Braungart
Robert Woodward
2018-03-04 17:57:57 UTC
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Post by WolfBear
What if President Garfield and Garfield the Cat switch places?
Specifically, I am thinking of Garfield the Cat's mind being put in
President Garfield's body (with the help of alien space bats, of course) on
January 1, 1881 while President Garfield's mind gets put in Garfield the
Cat's body at the start of the Garfield TV series.
Any thoughts on this?
Okay, this is silly, but I'm feeling silly....
We'd have a president who is committed to stuffing himself with pizza
(although not invented yet 8^C) and lasagna while spending the rest of his
time sleeping.
Lasagna might be hard to find; there hadn't been that much Italian
immigration into the USA by 1880.
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"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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WolfBear
2018-03-04 19:50:48 UTC
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Post by The Old Man
Post by WolfBear
What if President Garfield and Garfield the Cat switch places?
Specifically, I am thinking of Garfield the Cat's mind being put in
President Garfield's body (with the help of alien space bats, of course) on
January 1, 1881 while President Garfield's mind gets put in Garfield the
Cat's body at the start of the Garfield TV series.
Any thoughts on this?
Okay, this is silly, but I'm feeling silly....
We'd have a president who is committed to stuffing himself with pizza
(although not invented yet 8^C) and lasagna while spending the rest of his
time sleeping.
Lasagna might be hard to find; there hadn't been that much Italian
immigration into the USA by 1880.
--
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
—-----------------------------------------------------
Yes; correct!

In turn, this raises an interesting question--would alt-President Garfield try getting some chefs from Italy to move to the U.S. and work for him in the White House so that he could get all of the lasagna and pizza that he wants?
WolfBear
2018-03-04 19:49:53 UTC
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Post by The Old Man
Post by WolfBear
What if President Garfield and Garfield the Cat switch places? Specifically, I am thinking of Garfield the Cat's mind being put in President Garfield's body (with the help of alien space bats, of course) on January 1, 1881 while President Garfield's mind gets put in Garfield the Cat's body at the start of the Garfield TV series.
Any thoughts on this?
Okay, this is silly, but I'm feeling silly....
We'd have a president who is committed to stuffing himself with pizza (although not invented yet 8^C) and lasagna while spending the rest of his time sleeping.
The problem for alt-President Garfield, though, is that there are very few Italians in the U.S. in 1881. Thus, he is going to have extremely serious trouble finding lasagna and pizza for himself--unless he tries importing a chef or two from Italy, that is.

Also, since alt-President Garfield doesn't have much interest in work, I am presuming that he would essentially allow his Secretary of State James G. Blaine to run the White House in his place (Chester Arthur--as a corrupt machine politician--would not be a reliable pick for Shadow President.)

In addition to this, if alt-President Garfield knows his history, he is going to hire some bodyguards to protect himself from Charles Guiteau. In turn, this would very likely butterfly away "his" assassination.
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On our end, we'd have a cat who????
A cat who is extremely intelligent, who discovered a new proof for the Pythagorean Theorem, and who could simultaneously write in ancient Greek with one hand and in Latin with the other hand.

Thus, might we see alt-Garfield the Cat promptly apply to college in this TL in the hopes of becoming either a politician or a professor?
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John Braungart
Pete Barrett
2018-03-05 18:37:16 UTC
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Post by The Old Man
On our end, we'd have a cat who????
A cat who is extremely intelligent, who discovered a new proof for the
Pythagorean Theorem, and who could simultaneously write in ancient Greek
with one hand and in Latin with the other hand.
Thus, might we see alt-Garfield the Cat promptly apply to college in
this TL in the hopes of becoming either a politician or a professor?
We get a _cartoon_ cat who is all of this. How popular would a cartoon
about such a cat be? And if it _is_ popular, would it do something about
the anti-intellectualism in US society, with definite and increasing
effects?
Garfield (the cartoon) is now 40 years old, so those who grew up with it
would be in their 20s and 30s - some of them might respect learning,
rather than despise it; some of them might even have become learned
themselves.
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Pete BARRETT
Dimensional Traveler
2018-03-05 21:46:53 UTC
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Post by The Old Man
Post by WolfBear
What if President Garfield and Garfield the Cat switch places? Specifically, I am thinking of Garfield the Cat's mind being put in President Garfield's body (with the help of alien space bats, of course) on January 1, 1881 while President Garfield's mind gets put in Garfield the Cat's body at the start of the Garfield TV series.
Any thoughts on this?
Okay, this is silly, but I'm feeling silly....
We'd have a president who is committed to stuffing himself with pizza (although not invented yet 8^C) and lasagna while spending the rest of his time sleeping.
On our end, we'd have a cat who????
...the Secret Service has to keep throwing out of the White House. :)
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instinct are running screaming.
Graham Truesdale
2018-03-05 22:48:13 UTC
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Post by WolfBear
What if President Garfield and Garfield the Cat switch places? Specifically, I am thinking of Garfield the Cat's mind being put in President Garfield's body (with the help of alien space bats, of course) on January 1, 1881 while President Garfield's mind gets put in Garfield the Cat's body at the start of the Garfield TV series.
Any thoughts on this?
Okay, this is silly, but I'm feeling silly....
We'd have a president who is committed to ...spending the rest of his time sleeping.
I.e. a cross between Presidents Taft https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12970047 and Coolidge "His chief feat during five years and seven months in office," said Mencken, "was to sleep more than any other President — to sleep more and say less."
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2018-03-17 12:56:20 UTC
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Post by WolfBear
What if President Garfield and Garfield the Cat switch places? Specifically, I am thinking of Garfield the Cat's mind being put in President Garfield's body (with the help of alien space bats, of course) on January 1, 1881 while President Garfield's mind gets put in Garfield the Cat's body at the start of the Garfield TV series.
Any thoughts on this?
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