Dying of disease is a neat and sanitary proceeding, especially for women.
Well, yeah. Only men have the capability of developing scar tissue. Women always heal flawlessly, no matter how extreme their injuries are in their backstory.
As is poisoning- just a “something’s wrong” comment and maybe a “you poisoned me!” look and then keel over dead.
All Southern men were bigoted, corrupt and cruel. Except for the start of the Civil War when they proudly marched off to defend their honor and fight nobly in a lost cause. All Southern women fanned themselves and said things like “fiddle-dee-dee.”
The Declaration of Independence was signed by all 56 men on July 4, 1776.
If angered, any waifish noble woman could dawn full plate mail and fight hordes with a longsword.
I heard this nasty rumor that Russia was somehow involved in WWII or something, what nonsense.
Actually they dug up the Mary Rose and even the grunts had nicer teeth than modern Brits (yeah…har, har). Sugar hadn’t arrived on the Continent yet in bulk.
Of course the English were doing such a great job until then. Kicked out of Norway. Kicked out of Belgium. Kicked out of France. Kicked out of Greece. Kicked out of Libya. But as the Delta House rep told Dear Wormer, they were really expecting their midterms to bring up their grades.
Gunfights in the Old West were always at high noon in streets between a bad guy in black and a good guy in white.
Baseball games such as in “The winning Team” or “Eight Men Out” always end with strikeouts.
Frederick Douglass (“Glory”) was an old man with white hair during the Civil War (he was 43 when it started.
Ditto Robert E. Lee plus full beard (first scene of Gods & Generals).
And chewed straw for some reason.
The whole world was black and white until around 1950. Black and white pictures are color photos of a black and white world. (apologies to bill watterson)
Moses and Jesus were Caucasian. Everybody in the Bible spoke English, some with a Jersey accent.
Everybody in the South was victimized by the cruel Yankees, just like today.
In the 1950’s, to the early 60’s there was a fad where married couples slept in separate beds.
That ones actually true. More accurately they were not North European looking though the Middle East has enough variations in looks that well they might have been.
Uh… I figure the accents of Hispania would be different from current ones, but I’d also bet my computer that there were such things as “provincial” accents. People from The Capital have been making fun of country bumpkins since the concept of “capital” got invented.
People traveling by horse-drawn carriage or riding never used to get sore butts, backs or thighs, but that’s because those body parts are a recent invention (c. 1965).
Braveheart.
I don’t even know where to begin.
My fav post of this thread. Great thread, by the way.
Unless they look like F-4 Phantoms.
Homosexuals were invented in the 1970’s. Before then, even looking a little like a member of the opposite sex was sure early death.
Except for Edward II. But his dad chucked his boyfriend out of the window.
Well, and the Greeks.
The Spartans were not gay! Just very, very, very, very, very, very manly!
Sounds like the director torpedoed that idea.