The Off Topic Topic

[sbr]

I brought you into this world, I'll take you out.

[Admiral Yi]

Napoleonic re-enactment sounds like more fun than ACW re-enactment.

[Syt]

Germans. 

[Syt]

The thing is, if you mention the word "history" in Germany, in 90+% of the cases the immediate mental image would be the Third Reich. I would be very surprised if 10% of Germans knew of the Battle of Nations or its context.

"Die Lehren aus unserer Geschichte" (the lessons from our history) is an expression that you'll hear often when the debate comes to German military action or taking a strong stand against (real or imagined) imperialist tendencies.

[Josquius]

Most popular names for baby girls in the U.S. by year. The 70s were the Decade of Jennifer.

1960- Mary.
Wonder why it dissapeared so hugely. I've never met a young Mary.

[CountDeMoney]

1960- Mary.
Wonder why it dissapeared so hugely. I've never met a young Mary.

It's been pretty hip and cool to hate on Holy Mother Church the last couple decades.

[DGuller]

Huh.

They may have called that one a little prematurely.

[jimmy olsen]

Napoleonic re-enactment sounds like more fun than ACW re-enactment.

Any particular reason? I'd think they'd be pretty similar.

[Razgovory]

Most popular names for baby girls in the U.S. by year. The 70s were the Decade of Jennifer.

1960- Mary.
Wonder why it dissapeared so hugely. I've never met a young Mary.

My little sis is named Mary.

[merithyn]

Most popular names for baby girls in the U.S. by year. The 70s were the Decade of Jennifer.

1960- Mary.
Wonder why it dissapeared so hugely. I've never met a young Mary.

[Savonarola]

There are three types of people in this world: those who don't know what happened; those who wondered what happened ; and Swedes with mackerels who make things happen.

Woman batters sleepy Swede with mackerel

The incident has left the police feeling a bit codsmacked after the bizarre tale was reported. According to the police report the man was sound asleep in his apartment when the fishy assault took place, according to the local Södermanlands Nyheter newspaper

His peaceful nap was rudely interrupted when the woman smacked him across the face with a mackerel. Unsurprisingly, the man woke up but the battering wasn't enough to send him to sleep with the fishes so he filed a report to the police instead.

In addition to the mackerel attack he alleged that the woman had pinched food from his fridge and also stolen 2,000 ($310) kronor from him. It remains unclear how the woman entered his apartment to deliver his late night snack attack.

The two people, who are both in their 60s, are understood to be known to each other.

"They might live together sometimes," Mikael Larsson of the Nyköping police told the paper.

A preliminary investigation is already underway with the mackerel attack currently classified as assault.

[Eddie Teach]

Don't take it personally, most of the parents naming their kids something else never even met you. 

[Ed Anger]

I know which section to hang out at B&N now.

[merithyn]

Don't take it personally, most of the parents naming their kids something else never even met you. 

It was the "I've never met a young person named Mary" that got me.

[Eddie Teach]

It was the "I've never met a young person named Mary" that got me.

There are no young people on Languish.