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This wasn't even 20 years ago!

The last week is his best performance as Senator, with the sole exception of one brief moment after 1/6 when he claimed to want accountability (also at that time his wife resigned from the cabinet, a good performance of sincerity from the couple).

The Odyssey is in the news and you're suggesting Paris is a good romantic choice? (I haven't seen the Nolan film yet, and anyhow Paris is more of an Iliad thing. But I'll reach beyond reason for a weak joke.)

Does America going to war with itself count as two countries with a McDonalds? Or only one?

No, plot unchanged, there's no good roads between Troy and Ithaca.

There's only four countries with a Disneyland, and creating that rule seems like a cursed way to incite a China/Japan war (or, more amusingly just because of distance and inconvenience, a France/Japan war).

"no two countries with an Amazon distribution center? Or an (insert major company) data center" maybe? Not that I have any idea where those are.

Not only have these two countries gone to war*, it's a war Donald Trump says he ended 1.5 times. *the definition of "war" varies, of course. But Trump called it a war, and we're seeing in Iran that Trump gets to decide what is and isn't a war, sometimes varying from moment to moment.

When I saw the post saying that on LinkedIn the trending topic was Business Lessons From The Odyssey I assumed it was a joke about LinkedIn, not something that was actually happening. But then I saw the screenshots.

I listened to this back when it came out and while it wasn't really entertaining in the way I hoped a chat with Dan Akroyd would be entertaining it was nonetheless entertaining to hear him trying so hard and so sincerely to push his product.

The diamond skull thing distills the cash grab to such a degree I almost appeciate it entirely as a commentary on what he and his buyers had become.

von Hagens saw himself as having an educational mission, while Hirst was purely going for spectacle. At least in their own minds, von Hagen's motives seem better. Also Hirst was less technically competent, his specimens weren't adequately fixed, his cases weren't sufficiently well built.

"What likely saved Betty’s life was the elevator being slowed down by air pressure within the relatively airtight shaft, in addition to the impact at the bottom being cushioned by severed cables piling up in a spring-like spiral on the floor." (She was horribly injured but recovered well)

My god. "All six cables to which the cab was attached were snapped, and the automatic braking cable was also destroyed, meaning it fell without any braking system at all."

While we're exploring folk remedies: do *not* try a candle wick and lighter.

The word "naked", possibly because it's connected to a link, seems to have triggered an automated "adult content" flag?

To be fair, to a contemporary audience the identification of characters' home cities may have played a similar role, informing the listener of what stereotypes they should apply to the character.

Of thank heavens I was about to become one of them

Berkeley Breathed predicted this 40 years ago. Although he didn't predict the part where the administration just makes up a 98% claim.

The Mongols going on vacation and the TSA trying to confiscate their swords, bows, and horses.