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Lol. My QC has be lax lately.

He would then go on to produce such hits as Magnum PI, Quantum Leap, JAG and NCIS.

It did not help that the Treaty of Versailles was, as Marshal Foch put it, "This is not a peace treaty! This is a twenty-year armistice!"
He said it in 1919. Remarkably prescient.

Yes. I applaud his idea unreservedly even so as he could not have known. And the thing is, these trees are useful anyway, just not for their intended purpose -- we are planting trees to keep atmospheric CO2 down these days!

Not just the brutal murder, but also the bullshit trial.

Nothing really to say, other than I'm happy for you. Self-discovery isn't easy, but it's often personally rewarding.

Hey everybody,
I have an announcement to make. After some recent developments in my life I have finally come to the realisation that I am transgender. I have been so deep in denial about this, repressed so many memories, that the first of my close friends I spoke to about it was not surprised to learn at all. The irony of this is not lost on me.
I've changed my avatar; that was the easy part. I am still working on the rest of it. You do not have to pay attention to this if you do not feel it concerns you. I merely wished to announce it here. That's all.
Best regards,
~tOH.

I definitely prefer 'free to be rude' to 'jackbooted into arresting and imprisoning/executing/sending to labour or extermination camps for Voicing The Wrong Opinion or an accident of birth'.
Well, either that or his watch stopped.

BOOO!

Well, you can say this for Mr. Phelps. That was practically a Mission Impossible.

Well, think of the odds. There was 101 of them, after all.
And then they imported a Dane to serve as their King afterwards. Scandinavian politics are confusing.

I think I can best describe my attitude to this latter group by sharing a story my grandmother was fond of telling. Given she was a Holocaust survivor herself, her position is perhaps understandable.
After the war she would on a good number of occasions attend social events with diplomats and foreign visitors present. Eventually Germans began to appear at these, too. And whenever she met a German, the first words out of her mouth were always, "Were you in the Party?" And her hapless target would freeze like a deer in headlights and stumblingly say something like, "Err, no no, that wasn't me! That was someone else." And my grandmother would in a frosty tone say, "I see." and then her victim would flee.
Then one day she attended an event of this kind and met another German guest. As usual she asked him pointblank if he'd been in the Nazi Party. And the man calmly met her eyes and said, "Yes, I was. I was a functionary at the Post Office. If I hadn't joined, I would have been fired."
Upon which my grandmother offered him her hand and told him, "Allow me to shake your hand, sir, for you are the first Nazi I have ever met."
Of all the virtues, she valued honesty the highest.

30-50 feral hog wild?

I wanna know more about that pet alligator who barely speaks...
Is there a word missing from this? Like "female"? Because the US and France, among others, have had democratically elected heads of state for a long time.

Everyone who doesn't want to be imprisoned and accidentally die is fine with that.

A trillion and some smooth talking might buy you a hamburger.

/me's list is of the incorrigible punsters he's puncilled in for punishment 'pun some future occasion which he hasn't punned down.
Like all anti-pun measures, it seems to only incorrige them us.

Don't want it?
We NEED it!
The more obscure and esoteric, the better.
Unless you start covering the history of bread making...
 
In that case, we knead it.

A more interesting tidbit is that all of these countries were formerly part of the bloc that NATO had been formed to defend against. That's kind of like letting the neighborhood bullies join your anti-bully association.

You forgot a birth:
1931 - William Shatner materializes, and helps spark a new culture by going boldly where no one has gone before, I mean, if you liked his rendition of "Rocket Man" more power to you.

Very important event for 24 February
1939 - Columbia Pictures releases a documentary featuring Moses Harry Horwitz, Louis Feinberg, and Jerome Lester Horwitz exploring areas where crime affects archeology.  It also highlights the near accidental process of discovering lost tombs eventually leading to the recovery of the mummy of King Rootin' Tootin'.  We Want Our Mummy with Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard.

On February 20 in History:
1472 - Norway can't afford a dowry for their princess Margaret to marry the king of Scotland, so they just pawn a few of their islands. This is why folks from Orkney and Shetland are so difficult to understand.
1816 - The Rossini opera, The Barber of Seville, premiers. It is most famous today for its appearance in Bugs Bunny cartoons.
1895 - Death of Frederick Douglass. Unlike his birth date, he did not get to choose this one himself.
1933 - The people of the United States are once again legally allowed to stop pretending they don't drink.
1962 - John Glenn goes around the world three times in just under five hours. Suck it, Jules Verne.
1967 - Kurt Cobain is born. He is among the...no, Nevermind.
1971 - The U.S. emergency broadcast system is accidentally activated. Haha, how embarrassing. I bet they'll never do that again.
1985 - The people of Ireland are at last legally allowed to stop pretending they don't use birth control.

I remember him. He was surrounded by scandals. Surely the most scandal haunted president of all time.
He brought a locker room atmosphere to the Oval Office. A blemish on its reputation it may never live down. I bet he also used locker room talk, which is so unforgivable that he should have been impeached for it.
Then it got worse.
See? He was so unbelievably unpresidential. Surely the United States will never see a president who is more unprofessional and undisciplined than that.

On February 6 in History:
1685 - James II & VII of England and Scotland, respectively, becomes king(s). He's Catholic, so we're doin' this again.
1755 - Future U.S. Vice President and Hamilton-killer Aaron Burr is born.
1778 - France officially recognizes the United States. This is done mostly to troll Great Britain, but we'll take it.
1895 - George Herman Ruth Jr. is born. I'm going to deliberately refuse to make the obvious pun, knowing that it will gnaw at you for the rest of the day. Mwahahaha!
1918 - British women over 30 who own a certain amount of property are now able to vote. This had to be rushed through to make sure they beat the Americans to it; that would have been embarrassing.
1945 - Bob Marley wakes up and lives. A doctor spanks him and admonishes, "No, baby. No cry."
1952 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom, and a bunch of other places. Rumor has it she also unlocked the crown's ancient secret to immortality, but that remains to be seen.
1966 - Another celebrity is born, and there's a video that explains it better than I could:
https://tinyurl.com/Feb-6-Video

You are a class A rat.