Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
It says that there was a bit of white smoke and then black smoke, so people were confused.
It says it was posted at 10:19 this morning, so I'm thinking that's EST? Cause there are bells going off, too, which PJPII decreed be done when they had in fact chosen a Pope so there was no confusion.
The story just disappeared from Google news. I guess I'm unconfused again.
That was Monday, ita. Today they not only had the smoke, they rang the bells; part of JPII's plan to make sure it was unambiguous.
Massive prior no-Pope confusion x-post....
(ETA: Eh, bell-related snark really not worth it.)
You'll talk about math, and I will slounge and say, "Huh." And then we will let ita fight crime for us.
Can we kick some heads, too?
I knew that McKinley was assassinated because I did Scholar's Bowl all through middle and high school, and we tried to learn interesting factoids that came in fours, because they were popular bonus questions. (Lincoln, Kennedy, and Garfield being the other three. And I had to look up Garfield just now.)
Wasn't he also the one who screened Birth of a Nation on the lawn?
And I had to look up Garfield just now.
I remember this one because of Johnny Cash.
Also they mention it [McKinley assasination] in the opening of Canadian Bacon as one of Niagra's (I think) few claims to fame.
Edited to make sense.