# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/21 "2014-06-28T22:44:44Z")
And if somebody goes ahead and kills an archduke anyway, I think the rest of us should just agree to let it go. ---
**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, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/22 "2014-06-28T22:49:54Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > And if somebody goes ahead and kills an archduke anyway, I think the rest of us should just agree to let it go. The first person to pronounce the word “Ultimatum” gets it. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/23 "2014-06-28T23:02:29Z")
Times have changed. Today, assassinating a well-placed Ayatollah might do 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, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/24 "2014-06-28T23:32:32Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Times have changed. Today, assassinating a well-placed Ayatollah might do it. Or a Kardashian. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/25 "2014-06-29T00:50:04Z")
Great. There go my plans for the evening! > [@running\_coach](#): > > if you read that as “artichoke”, chime in. _ding_ ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/26 "2014-06-29T03:31:50Z")
D’oh! :smack: Too late. ---
**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 29, 2014, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/27 "2014-06-29T03:38:58Z")
This is just a one-day thing, though, right? I can go back to my regular routine of wanton archduke-slaying again tomorrow? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/28 "2014-06-29T03:47:30Z")
“A standing army of soldiers, a sitting army of bureaucrats, a kneeling army of priests, and a crawling army of spies.” You’d think somewhere in there there’d be a chauffeur who could read a fucking street map. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/29 "2014-06-29T03:55:17Z")
[Bosnian Serbs raise up a statue of Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo](http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-bosnia-serbs-princip-ww1-20140627-story.html). ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/30 "2014-06-29T11:25:37Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > if you read that as “artichoke”, chime in. > [@Giles](#): > > apart from King Felipe VI of Spain, who very oddly has “Archduke of Austria” as one of his **titles** I didn’t, but I _did_ misread the bolded word :o ---
**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 29, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/31 "2014-06-29T15:01:29Z")
_Checks newspapers_ Weeell, It seems like we dodged a bullet for now, let’s just hope we are not at war by august and we’ll have beaten the 20th century. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/32 "2014-06-29T16:06:18Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > This is just a one-day thing, though, right? I can go back to my regular routine of wanton archduke-slaying again tomorrow? So _you’re_ the reason there are so few archdukes left? I swear, it’s like they’re an endangered species. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/33 "2014-06-29T17:30:53Z")
Im willing to accept the risk of WWIII to see Putin glitter bombed ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/34 "2014-06-29T23:35:38Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > If you feel the urge to kill an archduke today, please don’t. > > That is all. More importantly, if you feel the urge to start a war (looking at you Germany), please get help to restore your humanity. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868/35 "2014-06-29T23:39:43Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Im willing to accept the risk of WWIII to see Putin glitter bombed You couldn’t find a better evil nemesis if you tried; he’s almost at comic book level. I especially love the story of how he stole the guy’s Super Bowl ring, classic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-humble-request-related-to-the-date-06-28-14/691868.md?page=1)