# A humble request related to the date (06/28/14) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 28, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868 "2014-06-28T16:08:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/1 "2014-06-28T16:08:39Z")
If you feel the urge to kill an archduke today, please don’t. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/2 "2014-06-28T16:14:24Z")
I’ll try to suppress the urge to kill… ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/3 "2014-06-28T16:19:06Z")
Thanks for the heads-up. Ghetto kids with hoodies? ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/4 "2014-06-28T16:20:59Z")
Bosnian kids with little mustaches. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/5 "2014-06-28T16:21:09Z")
if you read that as “artichoke”, chime in. ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/6 "2014-06-28T16:25:03Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > if you read that as “artichoke”, chime in. I did read that as artichoke! I had to go back and re-read after your post! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/7 "2014-06-28T17:05:49Z")
i’m so up for it. travel expenses killed it. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/8 "2014-06-28T17:12:58Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > i’m so up for it. > > travel expenses killed it. Get you a drone! I hear there are kits now. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/9 "2014-06-28T17:26:31Z")
> [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](#): > > I’ll try to suppress the urge to kill… It’s hard, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/10 "2014-06-28T17:27:18Z")
Are there any archdukes still around today?-- apart from King Felipe VI of Spain, who very oddly has “Archduke of Austria” as one of his titles – and has had that title for just 9 days since his father abdicated. (I’m sure that the Republic of Austria does not recognise that title.) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/11 "2014-06-28T17:36:07Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Are there any archdukes still around today?-- apart from King Felipe VI of Spain, who very oddly has “Archduke of Austria” as one of his titles – and has had that title for just 9 days since his father abdicated. (I’m sure that the Republic of Austria does not recognise that title.) Yeah, but still… ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/12 "2014-06-28T18:06:04Z")
I pinched a massive deuce, but I doubt it will cause any global conflicts. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/13 "2014-06-28T18:08:13Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I pinched a massive deuce, but I doubt it will cause any global conflicts. Picture(s)! Send it to Fox News. We’ll just see about that. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/14 "2014-06-28T18:15:50Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Are there any archdukes still around today?-- apart from King Felipe VI of Spain, who very oddly has “Archduke of Austria” as one of his titles – and has had that title for just 9 days since his father abdicated. (I’m sure that the Republic of Austria does not recognise that title.) Just in case, don kill him, better safe than sorry. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/15 "2014-06-28T18:31:51Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > if you read that as “artichoke”, chime in. The method would be knife to the heart? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/16 "2014-06-28T18:32:29Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > The method would be knife to the heart? back! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/17 "2014-06-28T20:58:18Z")
I’ll follow the philosophy of James Tiberius Kirk: “I will not kill today.” ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/18 "2014-06-28T21:02:47Z")
Wasn’t it “We come in peace… set Phasers to kill” ? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/19 "2014-06-28T21:15:25Z")
> [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](#): > > I did read that as artichoke! I had to go back and re-read after your post! :smack: It’s one of the little known ironies of WWI that the Black Hand was never actually a terrorist organization, but a cooking club. On 28 June 1914, they were making a salad. Gavrilo Princip’s instructions was to “go out and find a killer artichoke”. Unfortunately, he misheard. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/20 "2014-06-28T22:09:12Z")
Franz Ferdinand was scheduled to play in Paris today. Hope everything went OK. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868.md?page=2)