Before people jump down my neck, I am not the author. It's just the title of the essay written by someone else.

(Although I do agree with their argument . . .)

No worries. Figured you misread. And to your point, while he was born in a Dutch colony in South America, it became British shortly after.

Governor Douglas was not the farmer . . .

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas_(governor)

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She doesn't, either, but she has respect for food in the barn.

<cue Mitch Hedberg>

True!

Obviously, this is a cat.

We are the 1%!

I don't remember the first time reading it, but I have a memory from middle school and credit it as introducing me to 'weird' fiction. So good!

Your title says it's a common misconception (a subjective statement) that his death report was corrected to say he died of a barbituary. (Which is not a word. You wanted to say barbiturate.)

I remember doing a project on barnacles sometime in middle school, and this was my 'fun fact,' to be included for extra credit. I had classmates including their project's animal penis size in their presentations afterwards.

Exactly what came to mind.

TIL about all this. Thanks.

>But much like the English tale of Gog and Magog, it's entertaining.

What's the English tale? Gog and Magog are from the Torah and other biblical texts.

Being a Jew from Maryland, I do take pride in my home state's early acceptance of religious tolerance, even if it just started with accepting different sects/denominations of Christianity (unlike the other Colonies and early States, which didn't accept Catholics and sometimes other Christian groups).

Plenty of sins in our history, but a good amount of progress, too.