It makes me wonder what percentage of people would think that cosmetology is a science.

Your response made me giggle audibly :)

What does a chapeau have to do with a story about snakes, Frank?

And when you go to touristy areas of South America many hotels have signs in English saying, "Don't throw toilet paper in the toilets!"

I have pooped in deep open holes in the ground while squatting over them on a pair of 2x4s. I have used toilets that require putting the paper in a regularly-emptied bin. The latter option is far more hygienic and pleasant.

Should have gone with the rat's anus.

It's a rather impossible thing to gauge, but Canaris arguably did more to cause the downfall of the Nazis than any single individual. And he came so tragically close to surviving the war.

By the time the war was over, the Germans killed 9.3 million people in Eastern Europe (5.4 million of them dying in the Holocaust)

Well said, Robert. I am always amazed by people who see themselves as rational but don't seem to have the slightest understanding of human societies. Not everyone has to like a particular sport, or any sports at all, but you should at least be able to comprehend why so many people do and that it is an important part…

I had no idea about that part of the history. Thank you for sharing it. I was born after the heyday of Nutty, when it was played during every broadcast, but I remember them playing it occasionally before some of the games on channel 38 and wondering why they didn't use it all the time anymore. Once NESN started taking…

How long has it been since the NHL was on ESPN? Yet, as soon as it started to play the memories came flooding back. Great theme.

This is accurate. Like TWIB, itself, it's impossible to be sad while it's on.

It wasn't national, and I know that I'm biased, but I can't hear the old Bruins' theme from their WSBK 38 days without wanting to skate through a goddamned brick wall (and that's saying something for a song based on a ballet).

Also a great six word story!

Oh, I know :( Pointing out primary sources that contradict his or her statements probably won't work, but maybe some other reader who is unsure about the topic will read them and understand why it's an important issue, and for how long it's been publicly controversial (basically as long as Native peoples have actually…

It's more like the bully saying, "Give me so much money that you're forced to mortgage the next 30 years of your life, so that I can build a treehouse from which you will not profit. Otherwise, my family's going to have to move out of the neighborhood." I have to say that the right move is to call the bluff.

You're right, neither of them ever reached the Urals. Napoleon did launch a failed invasion of the Levant, but I don't believe that Hitler ever technically sent ground troops to Asia (the Vichy France "fought" the British in the Levant as well).

1972: "Similarly, a 1972 article in The Washington Star newspaper on the use of Indian-themed sports names and symbols observed that “redskin” is a derogatory way to refer to Native Americans. The article contrasted the slur, “redskin,” with the neutral term, “Indian”: “Of course, the names and symbols differ. They…

Certainly ideology played a major role in Hitler's decision to invade the Soviet Union, but I don't think you can separate the ideology from the practical. Just as important as the need to wipe out Communism and Judaism was Hitler's belief that Germans should rightly take as much Russian land and resources as they…