Birthday Happies, Barb!
For those of us who first encountered Hugh Laurie on Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster, the whole Hugh-Laurie-is-hot phenomenon is a bit of cognitive dissonance.
I always thought the Prince Regent was kinda sexy.
I remember when we were kids (late '60s/early '70s), they still let zoo visitors feed the animals in certain cases. They would sell bags of marshmallows at the polar bear exhibit, and everyone would throw them at the bears, who just loved them.
There are pictures of my dad and my uncle eating the bear food you could buy at (I think) the Milwaukee zoo. It wasn't marshmallows, more like dog chow.