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I didn't think, just pulled three as quickly as I could: Washington (state) South Dakota Key West That makes no sense to me at all other than they are all places I have been. I will now waste some yet unknown amount of time trying to figure out why those are the answers that came to mind. Same.

Simple. Fancy or simple funeral?

If you've never had the opportunity and have the means take a walk about any one of the preserved internment camps from the Nazi period. Any thoughts about trivializing any of the evils mankind is capable of rather fades away whilst looking at those ovens and visualizing their purpose.

So the entertaining brain behind XKCD is going to compile and publish a What If book. I have to admit I am excited and have already preordered it. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions will be published September 2nd by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Starting today...

I borrowed them off of my grandmother's bookshelf, so it was definitely before 1990. I must not have been too enthralled, because I waited for decades while King pussyfooted around completing the Gunslinger tale, only to want to buy a crappy Ford Aerostar and run him over proper in the end.

I remember this concept from my collegiate days. During my first two years my major was in R&P, so it was presented to us by a professor while we were discussing the snake handlers of Appalachia. Our general reaction was that it was a bunch of nutters that deserved their fate (not uncommon for...

Cool. Giant, Aussie made, space-junk-blasting death rays! Scientists in Australia say they have begun work on a project that will see lasers fired from Earth to blast away the thousands of tonnes of space debris orbiting our planet. Though it sounds like a plan taken straight from science...

Is that the Clan of the Cave Bear series? If so I too only got through the first three. Odd.

No. Ever wanted to be divorced?

Pasta, I guess. What's the difference in pasta and noodles?

Tried it, not a fan. Do we refer to anything else French food wise strictly by it's French name? I know it is more appetizing to say Escargot instead of Snails, but isn't that true of most all French compared to English?

I think he was referring more to the emotional impact of millions of dead people. There were 50 million of them, minimum, as a result of this war. I think the Mongol invasions killed 35 million over the course of 100 years. We have no idea how many died during the Chinese revolution, but it is...

Welcome. There is a sub-forum dedicated to just that genre so I am sure you will find many suggestions therein. This place will increase your to-be-read list exponentially. :)

Same. Same, preferably from a non-Chesapeake Bay native else we will have a never ending loop of "Same" answers. Anarchy will ensue.

Mussels, but only when bought from a girl named Molly. Shrimp, fried or boiled?

Agreed. There is no plausible scenario that gives them a victory in Europe as long as the island wasn't under Nazi control. We would have continued to fight a holding action in the Pacific and dedicated everything to keeping the bastard from having GB if necessary. In the end, the sheer weight...

Lobster. Hard shelled or soft shelled crabs?

The Chesapeake, as ruined as it is. Still home. I do not eat oysters, though. Oyster, tasty treat or disgusting used water filter?

Aye. If Stalin lost, then I generally assume Nazi Germany defeated them. Had he had half a military brain or listened to his competent Generals instead of the other Nazi crazies he appointed it is actually a very plausible scenario. As to the betterment or worsening of the lot of the...

Stalin won. He killed more people. I often think about how the world would be different if Stalin had lost. I don't know why a thought experiment about historical events and what-ifs should be indescribably offensive. Offering it as a solution or path to be taken, sure. Had Stalin lost, it...