"spoken words left no trace before the 19th century" How is this true? What about all of Shakespeare's writings in the 16th century? All of the written texts from hundreds of years ago that people read and spoke about? Am I misunderstanding this comment?

She is beautiful and perfect.

I'm from Boston, MA and we always had roundabouts. When my family moved to Michigan we were shocked that there were no rounabouts there. I think they are great because it eliminates the need for traffic lights and having to sit for 2 or 3 minutes waiting for the light to change.

When my husband and I moved to Lake Charles, Louisiana for work and the company put us up in a long term apartment rental until we purchased a house. It had everything including a fully furnished place with all the amenities. It was also filled with scabies! I had such an allergic reaction that I had clusters of blisters the size of quarters on my arms. I went to an urgent care facility and the doctor misdiagnosed my condition claiming I had herpes and gave me medication that did nothing to fix my problem. By then we had bought our house and I found a primary doctor that knew it was scabies bites since he, too, had been a victim of those bugs. Took nearly a year to rid ourselves and our home of these bugs. I did report the apartment for harboring those bugs. You have every right to be wary of staying in hotels and apartment rentals.

I was guardian and executor for both my parents. My mother abandoned my father when his stroke related dementia got too advanced. She left him right before their 65th anniversary stating that she hated him (and me), that she "wasn't having fun anymore" and went off to live with my brother in another state. She never once came to see him for the next 4 years of his life until he was dying. I was the sole caretaker for my father. I sold their house and managed their money and belongings and made sure they were both well taken care of for the rest of their lives. As their guardian/executor I was entitled to charge them for my services but I never took a cent. It just didn't seem right. My mother died last year at 99. Managing their remaining lives and their deaths was pretty easy unlike the mess involved with my in-laws. Now, that was a nightmare! Too bad that website wasn't around back then. But I really don't know what a person can do when a relative decides to help themselves to the deceased's belongings behind the family's back without causing a lot of bad blood.

I read this man died when he was around 28-30 years old and yet the reproduction of him makes him looks much older than that so it's a bit confusing to me. This video says he was 40-50 years old. I suppose 50 might have been extreme old age back then.

My husband and I still laugh about Steve's comedy bit about being an American in France. And his King Tut song performed on SNL when he was the host is just such a classic bit of comedy. I love this guy's sense of humor.

This invention gave rise to the phrase "forked tongue". Sorry, just kidding. Was walking on a knife's edge there, eh? I must be a silver tongued devil today. I'll just go back to spooning my partner. I hope I don't come to a fork in the road on my way back home.

I remember reading an article years ago that said they would smear peanut butter into the horse's mouth to make it appear he was talking.

So, just what were these people smoking to make them even think about shining a black light on a shark? I mean, who does that? What even made them think that would be a good thing to do?

Well, I'd like to stay and leave an important comment but I have a cat to scare with a zucchini while Fluffy is eating his lunch.