pretty good appraisal by my administration today.

Quit being so modest.

Right, just wait until they see your message board work. That'll change quickly.

Smetona, Antanas, was the first, fifth, and last president of Lithuania.

Thanks for the highly useful info Jim.

Smetona, Antanas, was the first, fifth, and last president of Lithuania.

Unless Wikipedia is lying to me, Dalia Grybauskaitė is the president of Lithuania now.

Veering into uncharted territory with all of this Lithuanian nonsense.

Why does anyone care about Lithuania anyway?

Why does anyone care about Lithuania anyway?

Xenophobia creeping in again.

You know as well as I do that Lithuania isn't really a real country anyway.

Unless Wikipedia is lying to me, Dalia Grybauskaitė is the president of Lithuania now.

 

Zipping off that post I neglected to say "last president prior to the 1940 Soviet occupation."

Awesome, someone other than me finally made a minor mistake in this thread!

Bolaji Badejo was a 7 foot 2 inch Nigerian design student when he was cast as the alien in Ridley Scott's film Alien. He got the job because he fit the suit. If you don't believe it read knightni's list entry for the movie.

Cambodia seems like a place that wouldn't have many 7'2" aliens.

Cambodia seems like a place that wouldn't have many 7'2" aliens.

Did they put up border walls to keep illegals out?

Everyone is illegal there.

French Indochina of the 19th and early 20th century included Cambodia as well as large portions of Vietnam.

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French Indochina of the 19th and early 20th century included Cambodia as well as large portions of Vietnam.

General Stillwell didn't finish his march towards Indochina in the latter part of WWII, otherwise that area's history might have been totally different.

He obviously didn't learn anything from General Sherman about how to march through places effectively.

I am at school in native American regalia, yet most students did not bother to dress for the holiday.

He obviously didn't learn anything from General Sherman about how to march through places effectively.

Just because Sherman got his army through southern cornfields doesn't mean that Stillwell had an easy time marching through the Southeast Asian jungles.

Kind of easier to march through jungles when you have napalm on your side.

Kind of easier to march through jungles when you have napalm on your side.

 

Love the smell of napalm in the morning

My feeling exactly

Notable bit of trivia regarding "Vinegar" Joe Stillwell is that he adopted the phrase "Illegitimi non carborundum" as his wartime motto, which is very bad Latin for "Don't let the bastards grind you down."