Wow, what a coincidence, I’m not either.

A random balcony in Verona was labeled “Juliet’s balcony” by tourism promoters, and for the past 20 or so years, busloads of tourists have come to photograph this structure where a fictional character never stood, and the author of the most popular version of said story never even personally observed or knew anything…

“Do you think they used MJ as a spokesperson back in the day because he was black or because he was one of the most well known people in the entire world?”

Chutters is kind of hard to resist when I’m in Littleton. I can overcome the temptation of the candy, but the fudge gets me. Now that I know they have Beeman’s gum (where do they even find it?), I might have to go even more often.

Although I like black licorice candy, the Dutch make some truly awful varieties, and I wonder if this writer had the misfortune to stumble upon them. Sour, salty and even ammonia flavor. I can almost imagine why some people would enjoy the first two (I sure as hell don’t), but I can’t comprehend anyone ever seeking…

That’s kind of how Letterman differentiated his original NBC show from Carson. He had a reputation of... well, not exactly humiliating guests, but at the same time, not coddling them either. He probably softened up mid-career, particularly after the move to CBS, but perhaps he later reverted to form.

I would say his Lithuanian accent wasn’t convincing, but then I have no idea how a Lithuanian accent should sound (despite 50% of my ancestry being from there).  I’m guessing it shouldn’t sound Scottish, though.

I am shocked to find that Anthony Hopkins is not Russian, since his was the best filmed portrayal of Pierre Bezukhov that I have seen.

Speaking as a filthy American, I don’t get it either.

You’ve never visited a third world country, have you?

Perhaps my perceptions are wrong, but I was under the impression that Wichita, Indianapolis, and maybe Augusta aren’t bad placed to live based on the usual metrics, if not exactly thrilling.

The “Rape of Nanjing” was well named. 

Any Gen-Xer could have told you this.  

“straight-up race to the bottom of human brutality” That’s the eastern front in a nutshell.

Prior to Hitler turning on the Soviets, Stalin used the opportunity to gobble up part of Poland, then executed every Polish officer the NKVD could get their hands on (see Katyn Massacre), then forcefully annexed the Baltic republics (all the while wiping out anyone who could offer resistance and doing his best to…

Under what possible definition were Germans “Anglo-Saxons”? Despite, of course, some of them literally being actual Saxons?

Even in WWII, horses were heavily used. Their role in cavalry was gone, but the Germans and Soviets still relied them on them for logistics.

It was never a requirement to eat fish, it was only not to eat meat. Some pope at some point declared fish were not meat, and people just adapted the habit of eating it on Friday.

I might be remembering this detail wrong, but weren’t the few emergency exit doors to the attraction at Great Adventure locked?  Something about they wanted to keep kids from sneaking in?

I’m just a very occasional tourist to Hawaii, but I definitely like the sour poi better.  Fresh poi doesn’t seem to have much flavor.