Comments by "James Clendon" (@jamesclendon4811) on "Biographics" channel.

  1. Having read the comments, I'm not just surprised that Vespasian is the favorite emperor of so many people, but that so many people even HAVE a favorite emperor.
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  2. And finally it was the doctors who killed him. Figures.
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  3. "Inspired by" would probably be a better description than "biography of."
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  4. It's those damned PETA people again, protesting the mistreatment of the elephants.
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  5. I think of Coolidge often. When it's suggested that the government should forgive all student loan debt I remember his reply to suggestions that the US should forgive foreign nations' debts from World War I: "They hired the money, didn't they?"
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  6. Only a joke for those too young to remember the Beatles. Ringo got his fair share of screams--he was enormously popular. Still is, for that matter.
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  7. Yeah, um, I watched the video.
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  8.  @thickpee1493  To be fair, speak for yourself.
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  9. He was also present in Buffalo at the Pan-American Exposition when McKinley was shot there, though not an eyewitness.
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  10. Ари Фёдорович Welcome to YouTube. I've seen comments sections where as many as 25 people make identical comments. I guess they're so eager to see their name in print they can't be bothered to read other comments first. It drives me crazy.
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  11. In the "Andy Warhol Diaries," Warhol talks about going to a Prince concert and the after-party. Warhol was impressed with how polite Prince was, personally greeting every guest and thanking them for coming. Warhol's driver was a big Prince fan so Warhol brought him along--it was a high point of his life that Prince spoke to him, thanked him, called him by name and shook his hand. Maybe Prince changed later when he became more famous, but I'd like to think not.
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  12. Absolutely. The story is very hard to follow, being just a series of mostly unfamiliar names. Maps would make a big difference.
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  13. Did you ever visit his house? One nice thing can be said about him: his house, Wheatland, is lovely.
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  14. It's a shame he wasn't around 450 years later to treat President Garfield.
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  15. I think you missed the point. It didn't cost him the 1964 election--he won in a landslide. The Vietnam War caused him to withdraw from the 1968 election.
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  16.  @brett4264  There are probably a lot of others like me who are far more familiar with Lumumba than with 75% of the figures that people ask for. But then again I'm old: I was in school when he was in the news every day--for a while.
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  17. I guess you thought wrong. (New Netherland was the colony; New Amsterdam the city, now New York).
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  18. You're 29 and you never knew Jefferson owned slaves? Don't try to blame your school. I don't care if you went to school in Mississippi or Alabama, if you've even heard of Jefferson but never knew he owned slaves until watching this video, pal, that's totally on you. Willful ignorance at best.
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  19. The late record producer John Hammond was also a Vanderbilt. His mother was a great-granddaughter of the Commodore. Very famous in his day, he is credited with "discovering," or least being an early champion of, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, and many, many more, including many renowned Jazz and Blues musicians. His son of a similar name, once a modestly famous blues musician, was, of course, also a Vanderbilt descendant.
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  20.  @irritated888  To expand on your comment, the "statistic" is bandied about that malaria has killed half of all the people who ever lived--in fact I read it just a few days ago in a list of "Amazing facts you never knew" or something like that. Apparently, though, that's a huge exaggeration, dating mainly from a 2002 article in Nature magazine. Exact numbers are impossible to come by, and estimates vary wildly, but a more sober and fairly credible estimate puts it closer to 5%--still a huge number, probably in the hundreds of millions, but a far cry from half.
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  21. I think that's Spanky from the Little Rascals. I remember seeing that on TV when I was a kid.
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  22. Tom and Daisy Buchanan are two of the central characters in "The Great Gatsby." Maybe the name came from them. (But probably not).
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  23.  @toughtittypdiddy4634  Why not Crazy Rich Asians too?
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  24. I knew it was coming: I knew someone would see fit to call him underrated. Simon could do a bio of Jesus or Mohammad and someone would refer to them as underrated. Wellington was underestimated by Napoleon, yes, but beyond that he was as far from "underrated" as it was possible to be, and he remains so to this day. What do you think "underrated" means, anyway.
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  25.  @boomerhgt  Or a book. Some people still read books.
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  26.  Stellvia Hoenheim  Is that why you're so lonely and bitter?
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  27. Chris Parra Ever think of watching the video before posting a comment?
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  28. Awkwardness would be the least of our problems.
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  29. I knew the Krays inspired the Piranha brothers, but I never knew their nemesis Snapper Organs was inspired by a real-life policeman named Nipper Read.
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  30. Also was the inspiration for Bruno Mars's stage name. (Really).
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  31. I was going to mention that. I remember Johnny Cash singing it, though it was probably older than that.
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  32. Just your luck--the lavish ceremony where you would have received the statuette for this momentous accomplishment has been cancelled. Not because of the coronavirus, but for lack of interest.
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  33. We're halfway there already. Many of our (US) senators are horses' asses.
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  34. Kind of true, but I think it's a chicken-or-the-egg situation. Nowadays the name Vanderbilt, like Rockefeller, immediately says "money."
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  35. Could be worse. I misheard at first and thought he said opium and mayonnaise.
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  36. Don't forget Napoleon XIV. He had the number 3 record on the Billboard Top 100 in 1966. (True story, but I suspect he wasn't related to the others).
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  37. Rumor has it that it wasn't just his arm that was too little for her. Nudge nudge, wink wink.
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  38. I remember reading about her when she died.
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  39. "Three times a week" would be "Thrice weekly," not merely "Thrice."
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  40. Neither was Washington. Or Adams. Or Jefferson. Or etc. They were born British subjects.
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  41. Only if they were fighting in World War I.
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  42. Jeeze, didn't you watch the video? He threw paint at the FLOOR, not the walls.
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  43. I'm not arguing, but didn't Clinton accomplish a balanced budget, a comparable achievement?
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  44.  @KurtJohn3  Fair enough. So Coolidge's is a more impressive achievement.
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  45. It's kind of creepy that they argued about who "owned" him. Nobody owned him. Held the rights to determine what to do with his remains, maybe.
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  46. See that? Two sides to every story. Not necessarily two sane sides, but two sides.
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  47. Who asked?
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  48.  @Wi-Fi-El  Good call. 1841: Van Buren, William Henry Harrison (died after one month in office), John Tyler. But also 1881: Hayes, Garfield (assassinated, died after about 6 months in office), Chester Arthur.
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  49. I hate to ask what he wanted in return.
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  50. Coincidence? I think not!!
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  51. I was aware of that story, though I don't know any more than you outlined in your post. I actually visited Laos, and saw the former royal palace, now a museum, in Luang Prabang. I have thought that would make a very good subject for a video, but also felt it was probably too obscure a story to interest a lot of people. Also, many of the crucial facts are probably still unavailable to any foreign researcher. I was happily surprised to read your suggestion of it, but I won't get my hopes up.
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  52.  @Amarianee  Not once, but twice--makes it even worse.
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  53. I can never understand why people say things like that. In what conceivable way was he underrated? Underrated by whom? Virtually any qualified critic of popular music of the era acknowledges as one of the greatest guitarists of all. Any musician of the time would say the same thing. If the general public don't instantly equate Prince with "great guitarist" it's because that was only part of his genius. He was also a great singer, songwriter, performer, producer. Is there anyone familiar with his music who says he wasn't also great on the guitar? Sure, there are some, probably here in this thread even, who will put him down because it inflates their own ego to trash someone whom everyone else admires. Their opinions don't count. Among those whose opinions are worth listening to, Prince could hardly be more highly rated.
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  54. Nero, supposedly, but probably untrue.
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  55. So is republican. Why don't you folks who try to make this silly attempt at an insult refer to yourselves as the Republic party?
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  56. They're biding their time. Just you wait.
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  57. I love that the producer of that show called Prince earlier in the day and asked if he was going to be OK with the rain, if he needed anything. Prince said "Can you make it rain harder?"
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  58. No, Stanford University is named after Fred Stanford, the famous TV junkman. Didn't you watch the video?
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  59. No. None.
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  60. I like Rockefeller's simpler explanation: "God gave me my money."
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  61. Funny thing about Argentina: I can't speak for all Americans, just most of us---we never think about Argentina at all. When it comes to Argentine presidents, a few of us could name Juan Peron, mostly because of Evita, but they're dead (I think). There was some other woman , I think, sometime later, but I have a feeling that ended badly too, and that might have been Brazil. Beyond that nada. You had some stupid war with England, but that was quite a while ago. There were a couple of pretty good tennis players once. Beyond that, there are something called the pampas, with lots of cows that yield good beef. I know there's a city called Buenos Aires, whose main distinction is that it's not Rio de Janeiro, it's the other one. That's it. (Oh, there might be some famous soccer players from Argentina also, but that might be Brazil too, and we don't care anything about soccer). We have nothing against you. On the whole, if we ever thought about you, our feelings would probably be generally favorable. (That Nazi stuff was a long time ago, and, again, that might have been Brazil, Or even Paraguay. Don't get me started on Paraguay. Or Uruguay. Compared to them, you're France, so you can be proud of that.) So if you think there's something notable about your president, please let us know. It never hurts to keep informed.
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  62. @Just Looking Or a chicken he had a thing for who broke his heart.
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  63. Didn't either of you watch the video?
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  64.  @ganbaatarkh  I have no idea if you're correct, but damn, what a wonderful answer.
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  65. Shucks, Michael Jordan is sometimes called the GOAT and it's meant as a compliment.
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  66. I thought "Scandal" was very good--I remember it quite well. John Hurt was excellent as Stephen Ward, as was Bridget Fonda as Mandy Rice-Davies. (Her delivery of the line "Well he would, wouldn't he?" was hilarious.) Joanne Whalley was OK as Christine Keeler, if less memorable. I don't remember who played Profumo--I think he was a lesser character in the film. Christine's boyfriend Johnny was played by, of all people, Roland Gift, lead singer of the Fine Young Cannibals. I thought Hurt deserved an Oscar nomination, at least.
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  67. But isn't he justly forgotten? He perhaps wasn't as irredeemably bad as he's usually regarded, but I don't think Simon's minions could find as many admirable aspects to his career as they did with Polk.
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  68. I give up. Wolf? Worm? Wuss? Wart? Wank? Wipe? Wasp? Wizz?
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  69. For the love of God, Simon, give the man a break. And he's always so polite!
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  70. I was 10 years old in 1960 too, and I wasn't that dumb, nor were any of my friends. I will grant you that when Pope Pius XII died in 1958 that was the first I'd ever heard of "the Pope."
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  71. I'm sure he's top of the list.
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  72. Actually, you should be reminded of "Hamlet," which is where the character appears. Or perhaps you could be reminded of Cap'n Crunch, whose first name is Horatio.
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  73.  @theawesomeman9821  Alas, no. Not until he's a convicted felon (maybe not even then--I'm not sure). But we can hope.
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  74. What! You don't remember the presidential election between Mitterand and Giscard d'Estaing? Blood in the streets, I tell you.
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  75. An even more perfect murder is one which nobody realizes IS a murder.
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  76. That reminds me of a play I read about, but didn't see, I think by Steve Martin. It involves Picasso and Einstein and other historical luminaries of their era. Another character is a complete nonentity, with no particular accomplishment, who achieves immortality by being the first person to say "Cheese" while having his picture taken. (At least that's how I remember it).
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  77. Don't blame your ignorance on being American--I'm American and remember it very well. (To be fair, I'm probably 30 or 40 years older than you, too).
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  78.  @beefchillingham6790  "Lord Nelson had a vote." "He had a BOAT." Blackadder. Sorry. I had a friend in Thailand who was telling me that a neighbor girl was autistic, but he got his words confused and told me she was "acoustic."
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  79. No. It's Tyler.
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  80.  @edweard  Absolutely. The thoroughbred industry (Jockey Club etc,) are more fanatic about their genealogical precision than the Mormon Church or the British Royal Family.
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  81. There you are!!
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  82. And then imagine that they'd all had thermonuclear weapons! The mind reels.
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  83. Well that's one way to judge a person.
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  84.  @lydialady5275  I just googled "famous knitters," and sure enough Mrs. Coolidge is on the list, as is her successor Eleanor Roosevelt. Disturbingly, also on the list is Charles Manson! Cheers. (And I'm glad you took my original comment in the spirit it was meant).
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  85.  @I-am-Ranb0  Well now I know (sort of). If you hadn't replied and I hadn't done some internet research I would have remained one of the 99.9% of readers who didn't have the slightest idea what you were talking about. " 'Up the boro'. A term used in Middlesbrough which has evolved from local football slang to something which generally means something good. Used mostly at the end of sentences expressing ones joy. Can be changed to UTFB (up the fucking boro) if feeling slightly more joyful. " Close?
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  86. I thought it was John Wayne.
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  87. That's one of those things you never think about until someone brings it up--then you can't stop thinking about it. For some reason it reminds me of a character in a play by Steve Martin whose claim to fame is that he originates the practice of saying "Cheese" when we're having our picture taken.
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  88. My father was proud that on his high school senior trip to Washington D.C. he got to shake hands with Silent Cal when the class visited the White House. I guess school trips were different back then.
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  89. Copyright issues, maybe? They would have had to pay to use his music, maybe, although I think using short clips would be "fair use," and no problem. Maybe just too much trouble, considering how many videos they crank out.
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  90.  @stephanginther9051  I thought that was a possibility, but I'm always coming across new military or nautical terms that I'm unfamiliar with so I thought I'd ask. Cheers.
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  91. Duh
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  92. "Berth?" I always thought it was "Bath." Granted, neither one makes a hell of a lot of sense. But I found myself singing the song to myself all through the video.
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  93. Like Martin Luther King, I too have a dream. I dream that one day I can watch a Biography on this channel about some major figure in world history without reading a comment where someone calls him or her "underrated." I'm sure if Simon does a Biography of Jesus or Mohammad or Napoleon or Alexander the Great someone will call him underrated.
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  94. Growing up (in the US) I always saw it spelled Montezuma. It's only in recent decades that I've seen it spelled with a "c." Both, I think, are approximations of the original Aztec (Nahuatl) name, as filtered through the Spanish. Neither is exactly "correct," but as a site I just looked at says, "Montezuma," while more common among English speakers, is probably less correct. So, basically, use which ever one you prefer. (And it's always a good idea to question your knowledge).
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  95. The original one, not the one that's there now.
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  96. They only had one daughter, Frances (Scottie), and she was 19 when her father died. She went on to have a life of some accomplishment as a writer, and has a Wikipedia page about her.
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  97.  @Replicaate  Alydar would make a great video--I'm not sure this is the right channel, but surely Simon has one or two where it would be a better fit. Ruffian or Go For Wand, (Or Barbaro or Eight Belles) were just tragic accidents, but Alydar's story still has the element of mystery and criminality. Many people think they know what happened, but as far as I know it was never proved in court.
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  98. You not only didn't watch the video, you didn't watch the musical. He was Puerto Rican.
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  99. Just for your sake, I hope he does. I love that you never give up and that you always say "Please" and "Thank you."
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  100. "Sadly" for whom?
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  101. Apparently not, but don't let that stop you.
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  102.  @shebbs1  I'd forgotten about the Valiant. Wasn't it a Plymouth?
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  103. I was in school then and the general reaction was: Who? You mean he was still alive? They did at least fly the flags at half-mast for a while.
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  104.  @owenshebbeare2999  I didn't know it was exclusive to Americans, but yes, it's to emphasize, in no uncertain terms, that "I've said my piece and there's nothing more to be said on the subject." In this particular instance, however, I might suggest that that there may well be numerous other reasons why Joe is not going to be a celebrity. It's often not solely a matter of intent.
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  105. If you watched the video you would have heard Simon repeat that anecdote, though without the attribution. Another often repeated story, probably equally apocryphal, has someone (Alice Longworth? Dorothy Parker?), upon being told of Coolidge's death, saying "How could they tell?"
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  106. MAYBE IF YOU WATCHED THE REST OF THE VIDEO BEFORE POSTING......?
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  107. Andy bitched that he never got paid for producing the Velvet Underground's first album. And while we're on the subject, how about a Biography of Lou Reed? I don't know too much about him, but I read not long ago that when a biographer of Reed approached one of his friends for an interview the "friend" asked "What's it called? The Worst Person Who Ever Lived?"
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  108. Ah, they'd all be dead by now anyway.
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  109. Are you listening, Donald?
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  110. How could we forget it? At least 30 people have mentioned it in these comments already.
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  111. Yeah. We know. We watched the video.
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  112. Me neither. Plus, I didn't know where Al Bundy went to school. Am I allowed to post here?
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  113. Well that's cheating. I guess the question is what do your students hear about him?
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  114. Beard fruits? Are they anything like dingleberries?
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  115. I'm surprised Simon didn't mention this issue. In the US, at least, it was always Montezuma, with an "N" until recent decades. Now I see it more often with a "C". Relax, though. I'm sure neither is how the guy himself would have spelled it.
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  116.  @The_Horse-leafs_Cabbage  Or too few "s"es.
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  117.  @mwindanji6714  Why is that a problem? He could still be a plausible subject for a biography--just not for an obituary. (Just glancing at the short list above I see this channel has done bios of Trump and Madoff, and I'm sure other living persons).
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  118. I'm sure Pa Cartwright would never lie to you, but the name "Shiloh" is of biblical origin.
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  119. Did his mention of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein mean nothing to you? They were (and are) journalists. They wrote a book, after they wrote numerous newspaper articles exposing the Watergate scandal. The book was made into a movie. Robert Redford, in case you didn't know, is an actor. He was in the movie. Other than that, he really didn't have anything to do with Watergate. I think you need to go back to junior high school.
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  120. Says a lot for your school system.
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  121.  @N3VIUS  Jeeze, turns out you're quite the reader--you read a hell of a lot into my seven words. Never mind, I'll drop it. By the way, my kife is fine.
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  122. There was a contestant on Jeopardy some years ago whose name was genuinely Morgan Chase. He said that when the two banks merged they tried to sue him for his website or Facebook page or something. He could easily prove that he had the name first, and wasn't "squatting."
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  123.  @littleblackduck3134  I thought that too, but also, he's just reading the scripts in these videos. He doesn't necessarily know anything at all about the subjects he's talking about. Sometimes it's obvious. But he's just a capable narrator--he doesn't claim to be an authority. It's no secret that Alex Trebek didn't really know all the answers on Jeopardy.
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  124. I'm not sure if you're just making a joke, bit you're not far from the mark. They did spend a lot of time watching birds fly to see how they did it--how their wings moved. And I'm sure they wrote down notes!
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  125. No he shouldn't.
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  126.  @eHush  Not a bloomin' clue. (I hear they have this thing called googol or something now where I could maybe find out, but that's too much like work for me.)
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  127. Yes, the French have always been revolting.
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  128. And I am Marie of Rumania.
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  129. Was he the one who later adopted the name Chubby Checker?
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  130. I'm not sure I understand you, but I think I agree. Sometimes it seems he's speaking phonetically. Like Abba.
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  131. That's OK. At least 15 people have pointed it out before you.
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  132.  @FooNation  Worst human being to be president, and absoute worst president, but I think his presidency was too tragic to be called laughable.
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  133. I'm curious too---did you watch the video?
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  134. "The most important," dear God. Why limit it to Rock and Roll? I think he's right up there with Abraham Lincoln as the greatest American to ever live. And I'm beginning to have my doubts about Lincoln.
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  135. What! You think he was Jack the Ripper?
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  136. So what happened? Did you win? Were you suing Paul McCartney, who owns the publishing rights to Buddy's songs? What happened to the other brother? Details, man, details.
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  137.  @joeyanny8018  Astonished (and very impressed) that you replied. Thank you. You sound like a class act. They were probably lucky to have you representing them.
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  138. Maybe so, but Wilhelm's wife was Hermine--no "o." The video was correct.
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  139. No wonder Mort Sahl is forgotten today.
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  140. I have to wonder, though, whether Simon has the slightest idea who Martin Prince is. Simon's talent is narration, reading the script placed in front of him and sounding as if he knows what he's talking about.
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  141. "Based?" Explain.
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  142. One of your favorite wars? Really? I've always been partial to the War of Jenkins' Ear myself. But actually I think they both have to take a backseat to the Whiskey Rebellion.
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  143.  @dominiqueuniquenique9752  Nope. Me too.
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  144. Actually he was born in Pennsylvania. PENNSYLVANIA! Moved to Delaware when he was 10.
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  145. Don't knock it til you've tried it.
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  146. Adams's win was perhaps a little shady, but he, himself was certainly not corrupt. He was one of the greatest men to ever be president, which, sadly, is not quite the same as being one of the greatest presidents.
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  147. You might as well have stopped after your first sentence. You don't get it. Stick with photography--that's what you like and what you want art to be. Other people might differ.
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  148. I noticed that. Coincidence??? Hmmm
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  149. No reason he couldn't play himself in a biopic. After all, the OTHER Jimmy Dean, the one that makes sausage, still narrates his company's TV ads even though hes been dead since 2010.
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  150. I thought you said Aaron Burr was the monster.
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  151. I have a dream. Someday they'll invent a computer with a volume control.
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  152. I'm from New Jersey, and the fact that Elizabeth is in NJ doesn't stop it, or many other NJ places, from being a suburb of NYC. The same applies to parts of Connecticut. And I've never known of ANYBODY who considers Staten Island to be part of NJ, or anything other than a borough of New York City. (We could make the argument, though, that Liberty Island, and its rather well known statue, are in NJ)!
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  153. I just slogged through all the comments to see if others brought up what I thought were the two biggest omissions from the video. Dozens of people mentioned one of them--his military-industrial complex speech. But nobody mentioned the other--his failure to take a stand against Joseph McCarthy.
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  154. "Corn" doesn't necessarily mean corn as normal people mean it. In some benighted countries, such as those of the British persuasion, it can be applied to other cereal grains, such as wheat or oats.
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  155. I don't think Andy did Edie Sedgwick any good, but I think that's not even close to what happened in their relationship. Andy didn't need her money. And lots of other people victimized her too, beginning with her father. Not that that excuses Warhol, but I don't think he can be identified as the major source of her problems.
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  156. I think just this particular Brit does.
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  157. Who's Oliver?
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  158. Really? I think I heard that somewhere. Oh wait--it was in this video, that I just watched and you apparently didn't.
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  159. Not sure exactly what you mean--the rights to use them in videos like this, for instance? This bio would have been better with some music--probably too expensive. But in the years after Jimi's death didn't they release almost too much music?--albums that scraped the bottom of the barrel, with music nearly worthless, that Jimi would never have released if he was alive. Is that stuff still available? Are the classic albums available in newer formats? I'm pretty ignorant on the subject, and genuinely curious.
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  160. Really. It wasn't his fault he was shot. (Although it was probably his doctors' fault that he died from it).
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  161. This isn't a cooking channel. Those are all cheeses, right?
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  162.  @Chud_Bud_Supreme  P. S. Somebody DID win the Mega Millions Lottery.
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  163. Yeah perhaps, but don't hold your breath.
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  164. I've looked and looked and I don't see a Segway; "segue" maybe?
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  165. I pay for premium too, and happily my computer has this feature called "Fast Forward."
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  166.  @brianwaloweek6770  So... the answer to my question is "Yes, he did"?
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  167. Why?
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  168. Or panzers.
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  169. I don't know. Maybe if I watched the video I'd have some idea.
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  170.  @adamfisher9584  Alec Douglas-Home!!! (That was a prime minister. right?)
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  171. Did you watch the video?
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  172. Is it true he had an entire menagerie, all called Abdul?
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  173. Please explain in what possible sense of the word he was "underrated."
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  174. What's your point? There's a whole state named after him on the West Coast and he never went there either.
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  175. The Republican party we know in the present day bears little resemblance to any historical Republican party. Do you think Theodore Roosevelt would recognize it? Or Dwight Eisenhower?
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  176. Actually about ten or twelve people have mentioned it. So far.
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  177. That doesn't necessarily make you a history nerd. It might make you an idiot savant.
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  178. I'm sure they're top of his list.
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  179. I''m watching this apparently 14 hours after you, and it shows 44,095 views. Where are you getting your number?
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  180.  @jerrybaharlias9809  Why did he go out on a limb? You have to realize he probably never heard of Calvin Coolidge until they handed him the script for this video. He just reads what's put in front of him.
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  181. Somehow I don't think history will judge President and Mrs.Johnson by how they treated Eartha Kitt.
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  182. There you are! I had to scroll through 300 comments looking for you! P.S.: John Doe: Kindly lighten up. He is no doubt...um...persistent, but I don't think either "spam" or "troll" are appropriate.
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  183. Picky, picky. (Actually, very well spotted. Does someone have too much time on his hands, or just good eyesight?)
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  184. Cannibalism has it's good points too. And infanticide. Alas, we're all so narrow-minded today.
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  185. Both died alone in a bed! Gosh, what are the chances? Eerie!
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  186. Didn't you ever watch Young Frankenstein? "Thats EYE-gor!"
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  187. Don't you mean "I've heard the theory that...."?
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  188. Closer to "ignored" than "glossed over."
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  189. Then why don't you watch the video before commenting on it?
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  190. "Punishing on the South?" I would hope so. That was kind of the point.
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  191. Right. He's lumped in with Fillmore and Pierce and he shouldn't be.
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  192. Can't you even like that in his Diaries he dissed Donald Trump? Truly a man ahead of his time.
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  193. Keep telling yourself that and maybe you can finally come to believe it.
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  194. If he didn't he should have.
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  195. You're 40 years late on the film. Produced by Penthouse magazine, written (and disowned) by Gore Vidal, some big name stars, and partly hard core porn.
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  196.  @lilyfrettlohr4336  Take a rest, Lily. The Aztecs didn't use the Greek alphabet, so neither one is correct. Both are approximations of the original Aztec/Nahuatl name, and both are "acceptable," though the "C" is more common in recent years. And might I suggest you learn your English grammar and punctuation before you post again to tell someone to learn his or her History.
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  197. Fischer and Kasparov figures of "old times"? Dear God, you make me feel ancient. (Kasparov is still alive and only 58 years old).
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  198.  @ayushdwivedi2039  I know that's what you meant, and I'm mostly just teasing. (What's wrong with "former", rather than "of old times"?) You just made me feel old, that's all, but hey, I am old. I just don't like to be reminded of it. Peace.
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  199.  @oslonorway547  Not bloody likely. Surely you've noticed how few people can even be bothered to browse this section to see if a comment has been posted before posting the exact same thing.
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  200. Bobby Vee was a little more than that, though not really a major talent. Bob Dylan, still Bobby Zimmerman and still in his teens, attended one of the concerts on that tour, and, I think, played briefly with Bobby Vee at one point. He was from Minnesota, of course.
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  201. By his saying several times "No matter what you think of his music," I got the impression that Simon didn't think much of it, or else was unfamiliar with it.
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  202. They were ugly too.
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  203. They were underrated. (See my comment above). (Actually, don't bother. It's not worth it).
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  204. Now if it was the same year that would really be impressive. Otherwise...meh.
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  205. That occurred to me too, but then I realized that I only "knew" how much he hated the name from the Warren Beatty movie, so who knows what the truth was.
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  206. Ah! So at least he got a bridge named after him. (Or was it named after the other guy?)
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  207. And Betty Coed had lips of red.
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  208. Do you really say that? In English? Does that rhyme in Dutch?
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  209. Funny, I always heard that as Prince Albert, not Raleigh.
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  210. I caught that too.
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  211. Name one person who's ever said that they dislike it that he's African.
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  212.  John Barber  He was seldom if ever called Bob Zimmerman. As he wrote in his "Chronicles Vol.1" book, he was called either Robert or Bobby.
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  213.  John Barber  I guess she would know better than he does.
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  214. Citation needed.
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  215. Queen Hortense wasn't really the niece of her husband, Louis Bonaparte: step-niece at best. She was the daughter of Napoleon I's wife Josephine from her previous marriage.
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  216. Um--it's been quite a few movies.
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  217. They can and they do. Not many do, but European and Japanese and Arab horses (and Australian, South American and South African horses) can be eligible for the US Triple Crown, if they are registered Thoroughbreds with proper credentials. There was a Japanese horse in this year's Kentucky Derby.
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  218.  @chrisl.5637  If you REALLY want rubbish, watch the one starring Mick Jagger.
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  219. Phew, I was worried there for a minute! I always read the comments for these videos and wondered what happened, why there was no request for Ip Man!
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  220. Just wondering--do you really think that's what the third line is?
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  221. Did you watch the video? Like especially the part at 16:28 where they said that and showed it?
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  222. Or how about my Uncle Fred?
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  223.  @preetamsrinivasan7070  No. Just some guy. Actually, I don't even have an Uncle Fred.
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  224. Especially Annette--she was my favorite.
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  225. If he watched his own videos he would also.
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  226. Do you mean Cleaverland? I hope so--a much better joke.
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  227. And I think he shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
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  228. Understandable. I almost did, but managed to stick it out.
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  229. WAS considered. Until a year or so ago.
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  230. NOBODY says it like that.
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  231.  @Iconhulk  I stand by my response. Perhaps you don't know that the "a" with a bar over it indicates that it rhymes with "day" or "bay," which makes your example "Lucey-ay-no." As I said, nobody pronounces it that way. By the way, "pronunciate" is not a word.
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  232. Hey, how ya been?
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  233. I really wanted to hear that somebody shot a hole through it.
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  234. His credibility on the subject is a little bit suspect, since he referred to them as "Azore Island" in this video
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  235. Well, he DIDN'T drown, did he?
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  236. Really? He's a professional script reader. I think I agree with the other posters who wondered if Simon ever even heard a Prince record.
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  237. Next time, check your hearing first before posting.
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  238. Another genius who posts a comment without bothering to watch the video.
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  239. Either kill somebody famous or become Miss America, back in the days when anyone cared who Miss America was.
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  240. I learned a lot from this video, but not enough. I still don't understand your conclusions: that Chavez was an egotistical madman who destroyed his country's economy, wasting the oil revenue, driving away the productive middle class and taking Venezuela from prosperity to a position as perhaps the poorest country in Latin America, yet "the people" still love him and revere his memory because he lifted them out of poverty. Something there doesn't quite add up.
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  241. Wondered where you were.
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  242. Of course it's a suburb of New York City, as is much of the rest of Northern New Jersey and Southwestern Connecticut. Being in a different state doesn't change the meaning of "suburb."
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  243. Idiotic, but actually kind of cool. Reminds me (idiotically on my part) of the racehorse Cigar, who retired after winning $9,999,815, just $185 short of ten million. And yes, many, many people have said "Close, but no Cigar." Memo to self: drink less before posting.
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  244. Shut up. Maybe some of them were left-handed. It's like Paul McCartney and his bass. Or Jimi Hendrix.
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  245. So that was God telling all the other passengers "Drown, suckers!!"?
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  246. Do you have an autograph? Neither one is exactly correct, both are approximations of the actual Aztec/Nahuatl name. And I don't suppose it occurred to you to browse through a few other comments to see that at least a dozen other people have already raised this point.
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  247. I think you've had just about all the cocaine you need already.
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  248. Was he Bill Clintonovich's vice president?
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  249. Well jeeze, anybody can do that.
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  250. Well, legit until you realize he did a video about her.
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  251. Mmmm--you really think so? I thought it sounded almost like he was a non-English speaker reading it phonetically, with no sense of what the words meant. I know he's a professional narrator who does dozens of these videos every week, and I've never had that feeling about his narration before.
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  252. A video like this is, by definition, just somebody talking. Maybe you could turn it off halfway through. Or maybe Simon could play piano from time to time.
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  253. The most under-rated soldier? I think I'm going to have to ask for a little documentation on that.
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  254.  @bobbyanderson1054  He's requested under virtually every video--by the same guy. I admire his persistence.
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  255. Spooky! Just yesterday I finished rereading his book "Spangle," (first time in 25 or 30 years), and thought , "Maybe I'll reread "Aztec" next." Happily, I don't have to look any further than my bookcase. Great book, but, yes, very long. Sadly, the sequel, "Aztec Autumn," or something like that, is very disappointing.
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  256. Knew you wouldn't let me down.
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  257. Like everything else, I blame Trump.
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  258. Is this the first you've seen it? He wears it a lot.
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  259. Why, whomever could you possibly be referring to?
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  260. Is that supposed to mean anything? Asking for a friend.
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  261. So among his other accomplishments he was the inspiration for Mr. Creosote.
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  262. President James Madison was at the Battle of Bladensburg in the war of 1812, while the American troops were under fire from the British. Granted, he could be considered more an observer than a participant. But was Washington in battle while in office as President?
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  263. How about Ivan the Terrible?
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  264. Where ya been?
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  265. While you're picking nits, why don't you mention Simon referring to the Collector of the Port of Authority. It was Port of New York. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (not Port of Authority) is a more recent creation.
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  266. Ah, but a squeaky wheel gets the grease.
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  267. They should learn how to take notes then.
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  268. He never got enough credit? He was one of the most celebrated and honored men of his time. Twice elected president. A million and a half people attended his funeral and he was buried in one of the most majestic tombs in the country, which was for years one of the most visited sights in the nation's largest city. His likeness is still on one of the bills of the U.S currency. I think he got quite a bit of credit.
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  269. And namesake of New York City's most despised, and mispronounced, bridge. (Recently rebuilt, so maybe it's better now).
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  270. I watched the video, but I haven't read all the comments yet. I'm positive, though, that I'll come across one that calls him underrated---I always do.
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  271. What's a cow line?
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  272. I'm honest. I don't have the slightest idea what FGO is. But I've heard of Geronimo all my life.
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  273. Since 2017 very few people have referred to Nixon as the worst president .
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  274. My memory may be faulty, but didn't Mandy land on her feet and go on to a more-or-less successful life?
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  275. As opposed to the one who was an English cricketer who played in 194 first-class matches between 1849 and 1867.
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  276. No.
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  277. Yes. A lot of us actually watched the video.
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  278. One term president---from your lips (actually fingers) to God's ears.
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  279. Hoover was a good president too, if only it weren't for that pesky Depression thing.
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  280. Martin Van Buren was the first U.S. president to be born a U.S. citizen. All those who preceded him were born British subjects.
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  281. Weird. I happened to watch it about 5 hours ago!
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  282. An idiotic question, but the answer is mashed potatoes.
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  283. Actually they last used it in 1977. Capital punishment was outlawed in 1981.
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  284. I visited the Spruce Goose when it was on display in Long Beach, next to the Queen Mary. They showed a film of Hughes's testimony to Congress about it. I loved his simple answer when a Senator (or Congressman) said "Mr. Hughes, will you direct (somebody, an employee) to come down and testify before this committee?": "Why no, I don't believe I will."
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  285. And beat you at basketball.
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  286. The 20 or 30 people who have already commented on it probably do.
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  287. Technically he grew up as a British subject, so however he spoke it was technically with a British accent. It was probably quite different from the accent of a resident of London, for instance, though.
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  288. There are at least three--don't forget Cap'n Horatio Crunch.
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  289. I think so.
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  290. Don't hold your breath.
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  291. Now that's just silly. Slightly humorous, but silly. Or, to quote Arte Johnson, "Very interesting....but stupid."
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  292. Who should I believe? Another commenter had a feeling that Dali was Simon's favorite artist. My own feeling is that Simon is a skilled presenter, who reads the script (which he didn't write) for each of his videos as if he's thoroughly familiar with the subject, when in fact he might not have any real idea what he's talking about.
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  293. The whole video is built around a false premise--he is not nearly so obscure or forgotten as suggested here, to anyone with any awareness of US history. Granted, many Americans couldn't name any presidents before Trump (OK Washington and Lincoln maybe. But only maybe.) Coolidge is no more obscure than Taft or Harding or Hoover or Carter or Ford, as 20th century presidents go.
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  294. Which one?
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  295. Can't sneak anything by you!!
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  296. Didn't it hurt your feelings when he called it "Azore Island?"
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  297. Garfield died in 1881. X-rays weren't discovered/invented until 1895. Alexander Graham Bell did try to locate the bullet using a type of metal detector he had developed, but was unsuccessful.
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  298. Make that "every president but one." (And I don't mean FDR and the "two terms" thing).
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  299. Were you alive back then? He's very definitely wrong.
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  300. Pay attention. (I fell for that too, at first). It was Ned's father who married in 1850.
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  301. Don't let facts get in your way. He grew up in Abilene, but he was born in Texas, as Simon said. And the fact that JFK Airport is in New York doesn't mean JFK was born there, either.
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  302. And he absolutely killed on "The Love Boat."
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  303. By whom? No American has ever pronounced it that way. We do know how to spell it, though.
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  304.  @JohnyAFK Thank you for your charming reply. Perhaps we are talking about two different things, since Bataan is in fact not a city, but a province, or, geographically, a peninsula.
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  305. If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
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  306.  @mgcnashville6615  I'm going to side with Erica on this one, to some extent. I have no reason to doubt you knew Waylon, or question your motives for posting. The issue for me is people rushing to post some factoid about a video (which is pretty much common knowledge) without bothering to check that 8 or 10 others have already posted the exact same thing.
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  307. William Hurt is dead.
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  308. And you have a long walk ahead of you. There's Nelson Eddy. Nelson Rockefeller. Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. Craig T. Nelson. Nelson, the singing brothers, and their father Ricky. Nelson Muntz, Bart Simpson's schoolmate.....
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  309. I sometimes have that problem. If it's a subject I really don't want to miss, I go to "Settings", then "Playback Speed" and listen at 75% speed.
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  310. Or the McGuire sisters! Geez, hadn't thought about them in years.
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  311. You've committed a common but unforgivable error, condemning yourself to eternal scorn from Fitzgerald fans, by referring to "The Beautiful and THE Damned." It's "The Beautiful and Damned."
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  312. I am in awe of your persistence.
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  313.  @joshwhite5407  I don't know much about Ip Man, but he was a real person, not fictional.
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  314. Isn't he the one who walked a tightrope between the towers of the World Trade Center?
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  315.  @Galadonin  I think you realize I was joking, but I'm puzzled by your reply. You obviously know he was the opposite of a Resistance leader, and the Fifth Republic was founded some years after his death. I trust that you're merely joking too. Your original brief description of him is not incorrect, but your last one is no more accurate than mine was. In any event, yes, he would make a good subject for a Biographics video.
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  316. They stopped making Segways a couple months ago.
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  317. Malcolm McDowell played him too. The movie was largely trash, openly pornographic, but some of the cast were first-rate actors, and McDowell was good.
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  318. Simon's videos often include blatant errors. My (maybe crackpot) theory is that it's deliberate, to draw comments, and thereby pad the count, benefiting his standing in the all-important algorithm.
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  319. No
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  320. There's an excellent fictionalized, but fairly accurate, film biography of him, called, with great originality, "Basquiat." Jeffrey Wright is outstanding as Basquiat, and David Bowie (!) is memorable as Andy Warhol.
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  321. Such as? Do tell. (Maybe you're right; I'm not arguing, but I'd like some examples).
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  322.  @longforgotten4823  Please be so kind as to tell us in which particular "academic circles"you travel.
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  323.  @skyden24195  He was an individual, not a group.
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  324. Read Robert Caro's "The Power Broker." It'll take you the rest of the year and tell you far more than you wanted to know.
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  325. I beg your pardon?
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  326. So you're the one.
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  327. Yeah. Why were they always traipsing around that damn hill anyway? Mighty suspicious. Especially the one in the first picture of them who was a crossdresser.
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  328. Who says that?
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  329. Or learn how not to fall overboard. Apparently during the heyday of the British Royal Navy most of the sailors didn't know how to swim.
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  330. I thought he was a boxer. Oh wait--that was Primo Carnera. Do a video on him.
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  331. That's not much fun at all. Is there something missing in that sentence?
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  332.  @gomahklawm4446  Oh, OK. Got ya.
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  333. Did you at least learn to read? If so, it's really not that hard to catch up on what you missed, if you're willing to put in the effort.
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  334. He did. So did Kirk Douglas and others, including, of all people, Martin Scorsese.
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  335. Oh no! How could he possibly have left that out!
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  336. Speak for yourself, Surge. "Rather apt" is as "rather apt" does. You're right about most Americans and the government, though.
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  337. I kept hoping to hear they were done in by polar bears.
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  338. He just sits at home, waiting in vain for someone to make a suggestion in the Comments section.
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  339. I wasn't on this channel when that vote took place, but somehow I have my doubts that it was actually certified by impartial UN observers.
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  340. Yes, but was he suckled by a she-wolf? (You forgot to mention the cherry tree. So did Simon. That will be remembered too).
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  341.  @sjoerdvanloon  Maybe, but in American English we don't say "going to hospital," we always add the "the." One of the many differences between American and British English.
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  342. The hype wasn't behind him. The talent was behind him, behind everything. The hype was on top of that.
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  343.  John Barber  My uncle was shot too. Thank God he was carrying a bible in his pocket, so he had something to read while he bled to death. (Anthony Jeselnik)
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