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OT trivia, but you know how Eskimos are supposed to have dozens of words for "snow", because they're ass-deep the stuff 24/7? Brazilians have 2,000 words for cachaça. For a similar reason.

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If we go 24 hours without <i>something</i> about nekkid ladies, we're overdue.

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Damn ... I knew someone would beat me to that one.

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World Transfixed by Royal Bedding

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So <i>that's</i> where all the Vi@gra jokes went to.

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Soon as they get back from their religious holiday. (They tend to call in, err, "religious", on Mondays.)

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After my seventh mojito, they started leaving me alone. Not sure why.

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I'm sure there was a gland of some sort on her mind.

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The first Plantagenet King was Henry II. The Tudors replaced the Plantagenet kings when Henry VII beat Richard III in 1485. Henry IV was the first King of the House of Lancaster. The Tudors were of that branch of the Plantagenet family, albeit through an illegitimate line.

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Nah, they'd probably just cut his nose off, like the Byzantines.

The Byzantines did ears sometimes too, but if the kid ends up with Charles' ears ...

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It's not like "mother of the current Monarch" is that difficult of a concept, and while the part about having once been Queen Consort is a little more involved, it doesn't really come up that often as most of the time the monarch's mum will have been Queen.

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At least this is identifiably Wonkster.

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You have my deepest sympathy. May I respectfully suggest that you resolve to never, ever, write anything about the bloody Windsors again? I, for one, would be in your debt.

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Is Taylor Bigler related to Dirk Digler?

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since wonkette is under repair i am rewatching daily show election week coverage / karl rove refusing to admit defeat.

i could re-watch 'shine a light' but i just did that on saturday.

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