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Fay - Mar 31, 2003 6:13:10 pm PST #2798 of 9843

"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

OTOH - and, really, this is totally OT, but it's just where my train of thought went - I am always utterly gobsmacked whenever I remember that Prince Phillip, he of the truly innovative approaches to diplomacy*, is Greek. Y'all can probably set me straight on this, actually - is the Greek Royal Family actually imported from somewhere else? Because as far as being sexy and Mediterranean looking - well, he ain't all that and the proverbial bag of chips.

* "Don't Stay In China Too Long, You'll Get Slitty Eyes" etc etc

Penny B. - Mar 31, 2003 6:18:23 pm PST #2799 of 9843

Nobody

Fay, have you ever heard Eddie Izzard on Prince Philip? Completely hilarious.

"Your problem is you're all bastards! . . . Well, that went well didn't you think? What do you mean? Which part?"

Sean K - Mar 31, 2003 6:27:35 pm PST #2800 of 9843

You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

How to feel really, really ignorant:

I filled in most of the middle east, the north coast of Africa, and a couple of the -stans before I had to hunt and peck my way through the rest of it.

I am a big geography geek.

Theodosia - Mar 31, 2003 6:37:33 pm PST #2801 of 9843

'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I didn't do so badly -- those little Gulf countries were a pain -- but I couldn't for the life of me remember the name of Libya until I had cleared out enough countries that I found it by process of elimination. I knew all the names it wasn't but that was embarrassing.

Penny B. - Mar 31, 2003 6:42:33 pm PST #2802 of 9843

Nobody

I could only fill in the blanks by thinking of who has invaded whom. Precision is not really my forte. In fact, I have to seriously think to map out all the provinces in Canada. Is there a name for this kind of stupidity? I also find it impossible to remember game rules.

Betsy HP - Mar 31, 2003 6:45:37 pm PST #2803 of 9843

If I only had a brain...

The Greek royal family is German, FayJay. Imported for the purpose.

Betsy HP - Mar 31, 2003 6:48:38 pm PST #2804 of 9843

If I only had a brain...

Oops, got it wrong. The Greeks imported a son of the Danish king. King George I of the Hellenes was the son of King Christian IX of Denmark.

Then they married lots and lots of Germans, so it all came to the same thing in the end. In particular, George I married Kaiser Bill's sister.

Trudy Booth - Mar 31, 2003 7:09:02 pm PST #2805 of 9843

Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

The breakup of the Soviet Union cost Montessori schools a *fortune* in maps. (They have kids trace around little wooden countries and put them together into paper maps. They used to have one big USSR block. Now, not so much.)

Give the little suckers some markers! Sheesh!

Greeks can get really cheesed off by "the Greek Royal Family". The NYTimes gets nasty letters whenever they describe someone as Greek royalty.

Michele T. - Mar 31, 2003 7:20:53 pm PST #2806 of 9843

with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

I went to college with a member of the Greek ex-royal family -- she was listed in the school phone book as "Greece, Alexandra."

Betsy HP - Mar 31, 2003 7:22:41 pm PST #2807 of 9843

If I only had a brain...

Cool. I went to school with a Rockefeller, but I never met him.

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