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Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Side Effects posted:

Mozart kept a fart diary.

James Joyce also really liked his wife's farts.

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Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Atreiden posted:

I know this was some pages back, but it really annoyed me.

Sorry but this is not true at all. The European Lion went extinct in the holocene period and there is no Archeological evidence for it in historic time. You might as well talk about the European Griffon or Dragon, since you see that from Norway to Spain. If you look at antic greek art, it's clear that they don't have first hand knowledge about Lions. They often portrays female Lions with manes. It's also clear that they portray Asiatic lions, since they have to dark spots above the eyes, which both roman and greek artist thought was small horns. Medieval lions in art are even worth, since they are poor copies of what little antique art, they had access to.

There was the Barbary Lion at least which lived in North Africa until it was hunted to extinction in the last century.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2015 23:32

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

SeanBeansShako posted:

That is a hilariously small kill count, even against birds with that much ammuntion just wasted.

Hence decisive emu victory.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2015 21:08

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Riosan posted:

Did you know Richard Nixon was probably our gooniest President? It's true!

He was at the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr and he bumped into Jackie Kennedy. He says that the service must have brought back many memories for her.

During the Watergate hearings, he was, needless to say, stressed out. He watched the movie Patton a lot to gain inspiration. At his lowest point at the end of his presidency, he considered suicide and actually called Henry Kissinger to his office in the middle of the night, extremely drunk. They prayed and cried together. Nixon didn't remember doing so the following day.

His successor, Gerald Ford, also liked to hit the sauce, particularly martinis at lunch time or before meetings. When he slurred words one time in the beginning of his term, his aides actually had to tell him no more drinks at lunch.

Edit: More Nixon facts, just because I enjoy them so drat much. He usually ate lunch by himself at his desk, every single day.
It was mostly the same meal of rye crackers, skim milk, a canned Dole pineapple ring, and a scoop of cottage cheese.

You know that picture of Nixon and Elvis Presley in the White House? According to the National Archives, it's the most requested photo of all time by far, even more than the flag being hoisted at Iwo Jima.

It's not super common knowledge, but the Watergate break-in was just the last of many missions conducted by Nixon's personal spy ring, The Plumbers, who were in action for several years during his presidency. Their purpose was to find incriminating evidence in order to blackmail people who Nixon viewed as enemies such as Daniel Ellsberg, the leaker of the Pentagon Papers, as well as to sabotage the Democratic party by any means they could.

# ¿ Nov 13, 2015 18:43

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Aesop Poprock posted:

Not exactly an unstoppable force of charisma was he

Coolidge was actually pretty media savvy and was the first President to use radio extensively. It's because of this that the American people were endeared to him despite him being a pretty mediocre president.

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