L. Marcus

Henke is a bit of a legend, true. Almost as good as Ibrahimovich and much more personable! When he went from Celtic to Barca in '04, the two clubs met in the Champions League, the game played in Glasgow. Larsson scored on his old club -- and refused to celebrate. Class act.

Deep-fried Mars bars aside, the Scots are alright.

Nuh-uh!

The Scandinavian elites of the 12th century had given up plundering and pillaging abroad for using the Christian ideology to increase their domestic influence and power. Early medieval Sweden was still an elective monarchy, and civil war between competing magnates over the crown was almost a yearly occurrence. Our national patron Saint, Saint Erik, was a king who bit it in one of these struggles. He started a crusade against the Finns and was murdered in a church, they say, so he must've been very holy, even if he ended up more holey.

Not that the coalescing kingdoms didn't engage in a little light conquest -- the Danes tried for Balticum, while Sweden managed to snag Finland.

I've gone through Basic Training, and I work in health care -- my life revolves around proper footwear!

No Thanksgiving here. Being Happy With What You've Got would be seen as bragging.

The Long Earth -- Pratchett & Baxter

Epic boots.

Early Medieval Sweden, around the conversion to Christianity, with a dash of the Karolingian Empire without their bloody stupid inheritance laws.

... Stoopid nodey wedges ...

Only Han Shot.

Dammit ... I am so, so sorry to hear this, C.

... Quitter.

Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus

Pariah taught Simo Häyhä to shoot.

How about a kegger at his place?

Death tribble gave Nottingham it's original name -- Snottingaham.

Certainly, human life would be much improved by a non-sucky spine design.

3 hours ago, Pattern Ghost said:

 

That's the first part of where this fantasy breaks down. Beau using Seal Team 6 instead of random radicalized nutjobs is simple click baiting and fear mongering.

PG, you are aware that the ST6 example was posited by one of the panel judges and not made up by Beau? It was a reductio ad absurdum argument to show that the presidential immunity is not absolute.

And as for clickbait ... well, yes, the man is a YouTuber.

Cancer panics at the sight of King Edward potatoes.

4 minutes ago, Cancer said:

Today the prognosis was made terminal.

... *bleep*. I'm so sorry.

After that Kew Garden incident, bongos do fear Deathie.

A toast for David Bowie, Lynchpin of Reality!

Cancer tuned the climate on his personal Bishop Ring to Wisconsin in mid-February.

Eh, sure, why not.