They like that nonsense with the can opener just fine.

If you’ve trained your cat to zip up your dress, you’ve also trained it to unzip your dress. Probably when you least want this to happen.

Uh, come to Alberta and say that. True for the rest of the country, no doubt, though.

The Nazis and Stalin were collaborating well before Munich. The Luftwaffe was basically assembled in the USSR to get around the Versailles terms. Stalin was a willing collaborator in that.

One of my uncles was there as well. His sergeant didn’t like him and left him and a couple of others he didn’t like behind to mine bridges while the sergeant and the rest of the unit headed for the beaches. The Germans rounded the sergeant and the unit up, my uncle and his oppos blew up some bridges and got picked up…

Really? I first got this feeling when my students told me that they were too young to remember who Diver Dan was. It’s been downhill since then.

Do you curse at peasants as well? That’d be a dead giveaway.

Not perhaps the best example, as he was, technically, his own cousin, as I understand it. If anyone was going to show it, he was. There were earlier, less-inbred Habsburgs who also displayed the trait - it’s a strong family marker down through generations.

I have coffee every now and again with someone who did, for years. That line I quoted sounds a lot like him. It made me wonder how any of these companies stayed in business.

Yes, there is a group known as the sedevacantists who believe that the current (and the past few, I think) Popes are not legitimate. Still Catholics, though, or so they tell us.

Some of the best workers were laid off and the asshats that suck up to the boss and did 1/2 the work stayed.

The price of labour also went up in the recovery from the Black Death, and there was a lot more social mobility.

They even have a word for it in their own language.

Google “Messell shale”. Then get back to me here, I’m taking bids on family plots up in the Ft. McMurray tar sands. You’ll be your own private lagerstatte until the world ends.

You might want to consider being buried deep in a bog, so that your entire body would be preserved for thousands of years.

Children’s skeletons (for teaching anatomy) are also quite hard to come by.

After having worked in a medical school morgue, I have to agree with you - I wouldn’t want the remains of anyone I love to wind up in one of those places. Not that the cadavers were treated with disrespect or anything like that - there’s just something chillingly impersonal about how things are done in the morgue (he…

Me too. Frightening, emptying your lungs and not being able to inhale.

That was a joke, actually. Fell flat.