Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is such a good film.

With its Australia reference at the end?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfCYIyV3Htg

(Unfortunately, Randy is a mute.)

Better clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xof2LkhAFGU

Gordon Lightfoot died a month ago. News travels slowly to the southern hemisphere.

Gordon Lightfoot died a month ago. News travels slowly to the southern hemisphere.

of the globe or the brain?

@Amby....I guess you could not read his mind and you don't creep 'round his back stairs.

Very true. Maybe the 29 chimes were too quiet to hear across the Pacific.

And more fun something I leaned today, see the Aussie mafia thread.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRxeT3uVTF-GMOT-xcqZCoA6noGJc1pX4Ac8w&usqp=CAU

Seems like the Danes should have sold Trump some of their surplus real estate when they had the chance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHOpO0IydBY

Also, Twitter told me today that a hotel in Baltimore served Château Lafite, which they misspelled, and Château Margaux off of their breakfast menu in 1863.

https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1664956301447921668

gopher27: Don't be silly. As the video says, Greenland was granted autonomy way back in 1979. And what's not mentioned is that Denmark recognized Greenland as a nation in 2009 (Denmark had incorporated the Greenland colony into Denmark proper in 1953). It would have been unspeakably cruel to try and accede to selling Greenland just a decade later.

My comment was obviously tongue in cheek.

@gopher27: Obviously, the hotel believed, and rightly so, that it is always "Premier Cru O'Clock" somewhere.

Jim Courier is an American Tennis player who made three straight French Open Finals in the early 1990s, when Men's Tennis had a bit more depth of talent. He won the first two before losing the third to Sergi Bruguera, who defeated Courier in the next year's semifinals as well.

When Courier won his first French Open, it was his first ever title on clay, and his four lifetime clay court titles were two French Opens and two Italian Opens (basically the top two clay court tournaments in the world).

Well this hardly falls under „publicly expose how embarrassingly ignorant they are“, does it?

Isn't that a good thing?

The song "Midnight Train to Georgia", famously recorded by Gladys Knight and the Pips, was actually written as "Midnight Plane to Houston" with Glen Campbell as the intended singer. This is a semi-well known pop culture story. It was slightly re-worked to transition from a country song with a white male protagonist to a soul song with a Black female protagonist.

Yesterday, I learned that the song writer constructed the song after having a phone conversation with a not yet famous Farrah Fawcett who was turning down a social invitation because she was going to visit her mother. The song writer then imagined a man giving up on LA to follow her specifically back to Texas. BTW, my mom went through elementary school with Farrah Fawcett and my dad then went to high school with her. For those who are unaware of her, Farrah Fawcett became basically the incandescent, female sex symbol of the late 1970s in the US two or three years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwbmufPphP0

Something that might be obvious to US-citizens, but not me: One of the 50 US states is basically a mormon state and it is Utah.

Would love to see a US state map of Diplomacy players, or board sales or something. I reckon Utah would be close to the lowest.

The lowest as in at the bottom or the Iowest as in most close to being Iowa?

Something that I know, without having learned it recently: One of the early areas to originally convert to Mormonism was an ethnically Danish enclave. As a result of this reality and the sustained higher fertility rates of Mormons, this community of Danes dramatically multiplied. Thus in the US, ethnic Danes rank as among the most actively and observantly religious among all ethnic groups in the US. My Scandinavian friends have pretty consistently found this reality more than a bit surprising.

Utah:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcFm96WxAZY

Technically a thing I learned yesterday, but there's a bonus Diplomacy tournament in an Angkor Wat temple a week after WDC. How cool is that?

I've been learning to speak OZ-trail-yahn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZm5QvpfonY

If you want to learn How to Talk Australians, this is the best guide I've found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHQRZXM-4xI

I had no idea Jimmy Grant was a shitforbrains furinur, you cunt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2672ymk52D0

Australia needs to try harder to be less disgusting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australonuphis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2019-12-27-beach-worming.webm

Funny thing is I kind of assumed everyone in the world had beach worms and did worming.

How can no one on here besides me have a strong reaction to 6 foot long worms infesting Australian beaches?