The car was parked and she was sitting in the passenger seat. Her grandson/son (?) was driving.

It’s the same as with any other branded product. Only Nabisco can call their sandwich cookies Oreos and other brands have to use other names.

That’s the only song of his that I know.

To me his pictures look like drunk party pictures.

Is that the Japanese one where the woman asks if you want red or blue?

I’m born and raised in Germany and I know that thing. But ours was mirrored, otherwise our teachers would have thought we were drawing suspicious S’es.

Christmas comes but once a year, but then it stays forever.

It’s the nightmare before Christmas.

I have 50 degrees where I live and a really bad cold. Want to switch?

I saw a woman today who bought tree ornaments. There is still so much time for them to get broken before you actually need them. In some areas of Germany and depending on the branch of Christianity, they only set up the tree on the 24th.

The Titanic was also a mail ship. I guess they would have sent it as an express as soon as the ship would have arrived at the next harbour. His family didn’t live in New York, so they wouldn’t have know if he had arrived.

When they recovered his body they sent it to the family along with the letter. His wife died only six years later.

Fun fact: In the UK black cats are good luck.

The protagonist in The Time Machine complains “For countless years I judged there had been no danger of war or solitary violence”, the setting is 1895.

You’ll need at least 5 presidents to patch up all the damage he causes.

He has a very shallow one. It’s that white swirl below ‘purpose’, in that semi-circle ornament thing.

They are both beautiful, but (at least from the pictures I’ve seen) Domaniecki looks more vampiric.

That’s not exactly what your article says, though it’s still a sad story. He lost his job and ended up in the asylum years later, possibly due to syphilis.

My library voids the old stamp by stamping over it at a 90° angle.

Out of spite I’d ‘lose’ an old book from a time when they were 60 cents. “That’s the price on the back of the book.”