Fred, don't feel too bad. I had a fairly exhaustive high school education on US history (not that it compares to a major, just...it was more thorough than the few classes I had to take for my policsci major,) and like I said, I'd only heard of three of those. I suspect it depends highly on ...well, something.

How the hell does the dog always know what time it is?

Eight-thirty, every night. Doesn't matter if the last walk was at noon or at 7:45, she always starts fussing at me at 8:30. For the last time, I'm not ready! Please god just leave me alone for fifteen minutes and I swear we'll go back out.

Okay, rant over. I feel better. No visible canine effect, however.

Hey Californians - Phil Angelides is giving a speech in my office right now!

I am not listening. I am entering invoices.

Am I too late to play the death quiz?

Skull Fracture

Almost hit by car in Rome

Tequila

Landing on an icy runway in Portland, ME.

Calling Pete adorable and then poking him on the arm.

On the almost died thing, I can only think of three:

Fifth grade, riding my bike home from school, the front tire got caught in a crack in the sidewalk, and my bike flipped over. I landed pretty much head-first on the pavement. All exposed skin got pretty badly scratched up, I needed a bunch of stitches in my face, and my helmet cracked. I'm pretty sure that could have been my skull cracking if I hadn't been wearing the helmet. (Somehow, my back and neck were pretty much OK.)

The other two were traffic accidents. Second one was flooding roadway and driving too fast, led to car spinning across three lanes of oncoming traffic. I was in the backseat, and had a moment where I was just watching a car getting closer and closer to my door. It stopped with less than a foot to spare. The first traffic accident was a family vacation. The car in front of us had a cooler on the roof. The cooler fell off, opened up, and a whole roast turkey started rolling across the highway. (This was I-95, somewhere in Virgnia.) My dad braked to avoid hitting the turkey, and the car behind us, which was a minivan towing a UHaul, couldn't stop in time.

Matt, I'm glad your dad's tests went well.

I got 8 out of 10 on the history quiz. I missed the mudslinging and Jefferson and Adams dying on the 4th of July.

Hey, when we say "water once existed on Mars" does that just mean "liquid"? Couldn't it have been seas or rivers of amonia or something?

(Maybe I shouldn't watch PBS)

I think I'm recording what you're watching, Trudy. Not that that in any way answers your question.

I only got 4 out of 10 -- shameful, I must admit that I thought that the Manhattan question was false because I thought it was more like $34.00 in goods not $700.00.

I'm watching Top Chef and it's amusing me.

I thought I'd missed a big Bones watch and post -- but guess not this week, huh?

I watched, sumi.