I starred your comment and took it out of the grays because you’re right, and that’s why my comment wandered into “but they do raise a lot of money for...” territory.

I don’t doubt this for a second. The past really is a foreign country.

Oh wait, I have another horror story.

Picture it, Manhattan, early 90s. [I’m really doxxing myself but it was so long ago I’m not sure even my husband remembers at this point.] [Plus, I’m going to perpetuate a possibly offensive stereotype. But this is all true, and most New Yorkers will not find this fantastical.]

Mountbatten started out as Battenberg (which is German for Batten Mountain, or Mount Batten.) I believe it was changed by the branch of the family living in Britain during World War I.

Unless the Jezebel and G/O clocks are set to Standard Time year-round, as all of them should be in the year 2019. Sorry, I’ve the joined the bandwagon that believes that we can live without a clock geared toward WWI-era farming production maximization.

They showed both remarkable restraint and outside-the-box thinking. Archie? Harrison? Ladbroke’s must have made a fortune off all the punters who bet wrong.

On “Downton Abbey” at some point “Cousin Shrimpie” arrives on the scene with his wife, Susan. I thought, “How could Julian Fellowes, obsessive about the era, give a character such a prototypical Baby Boomer name?”

I was chatting with a young female relative a couple of years ago and she was telling me about her friend “Liv.” I said, “I’ve always thought that was such a pretty name,” thinking of Liv Ullman, because I am old and childless. She said, “It’s short for Olivia. There are four of them in my class.”

I wonder why these people thought to turn to a Wall St. firm to do pretty mundane stuff. When maybe not the client who wanted the will done, those can be very complicated and I’m sure all the Wall St. firms have estate planning practices, but those wills cost a touch more than $1,500 to set up.

Homemade ones that he sells as a side hustle? That could be true.

They haven’t set an episode at “Hudson University” in quite some time. 

Au contraire, that can be a very, very lucrative occupation if you’re good at sales and work for one of the big medical manufacturing companies. Do you know how much an MRI scanner costs?

Sorry, I didn’t see your comment! I just repeated you. 

That’s exactly what Post wanted. When she died in the 1970s she actually left it to the federal government but Nixon, Ford, and Carter never used it, so the government gave it back to the Post Trust because it cost too much to maintain and served no purpose. Trump bought it from the Trust.

If you can speak Spanish YouTube has episodes of “Siempre Tuya, Acapulco,” an incredibly over-the-top soap opera (even by telenovela standards) from the 1990s. It is one of my favorite shows of all time.

You are my soul mate.

It used to be very common in Europe to provide cigarettes at parties, and almost always in water glasses, like above. It used to be common in America too, but people had cigarette boxes. Boxes isn’t quite the word. I had a vintage one, it was this beautiful gold leaf and back onyx one. There are quite a few older movie…

The arm also looks like it was copied and pasted on, and someone had to position it by eye and only had a couple of minutes.

No, you’re thinking of Baby Royale.