Today is the 660th anniversary of the battle of Crécy, wherein the French got their collective ass handed over to them by Welsh archery, suffering a humiliating defeat and going on to start the appropriately named Hundred Years’ War (and you thought Iraq was dragging on).
Today is also the 26th anniversary of Tex Avery‘s untimely death, to the greatest relief of talking ducks and horny wolves the world over.
I’m pretty sure something else happened on that day, but I just can’t remember what.
Bon Anni——-aire! Feliz cumpleaños! Or, whatever you think you are forgetting. We haven’t. Any picnics at park, bike rides alongside ducks, or trampolining with fish this year? Hope you are having a great time. A big hug from Noo Yawk Citty.
Merry Xmas and happy new year Dave – and you, readers, don’t think I’m drunk, you’re wrong.
I’ve only been drinking everything I could during the last 5 hours
If you can’t remember the first Declaration of Human Rights, the Battle of Tannenberg and the beginning of the Earth Summit 2002, how come that you remember so well the battle of Crécy, so-called Genius? Something wrong with the French people?
Felix & Jasmine
Thanks!
No ducks or trampolines this year, only waaaay too much alcohol and vows never to ‘again…
And congrats on the upcoming little one and his virile attributes 😉
neuro
Because you think I have sobered up yet? In retrospect, I should never have stopped drinking. Stopping at some point this morning is what did me in.
amicalmant
To be honest, I probably wouldn’t even know/remember when the hell the Battle of Crécy took place, if not for the wonders of Wikipedia. As for Tannenberg: same wikipedia seems to make it happen on the 25th, not the 26th (there again, I wouldn’t know personally). As for the French people: too many things wrong with them to even start.
Happy birthday, Dave!
yay, bon anniversaire!
Oh I am sorry, dr Dave. You’re obviously too smart for me. Adieu!
Daphne & Firas
Thanks: next time I’ll keep you a slice of cake.
amicalmant
If by “obviously too smart”, you mean “know how to use an online encyclopedia”, and by “Adieu”, you mean “I really should stop abusing medications and leaving nonsensical comments on people’s blogs”… then yea, most certainly…
Dr Dave,
The only quality that I am ready to grant you is that your WordPress Spam Karma is great and I thank you for bringing it to me as an open source application. For the rest, I cannot really judge you since I don’t know you but the way you treat people and cultures that, obviously, you don’t know at all here does not make your case very strong. Immature as you seems to be, however, I assume that you will just insult me one more time. It’s up to you and, sincerely, I don’t care.
Bye bye now, script kiddie! 🙂
Mr. amicalmant, you’re right on one point at least : you cannot really judge me, and you definitely do not know much about me (can’t blame you, you hardly give me any inclination to know more about you). Yet you do judge me, rather repeatedly, insistingly and, most of all, absolutely and utterly missing the point along with it… A very cursory parsing of this blog, along with perhaps a modicum of humor and less self-importance, would probably have prevented you from making many a ridiculous statements in your recent commenting spree.
As for the rest, I’ll kindly ask you to refer to this for more info.
Oh, j’allais oublier :
Dois-je dire à quel point je suis déçu que vous ayez pu omettre dans votre sympathique correction de mes lacunes historiques un événement majeur entre tous, qui se déroula bien un 26 août aussi…
I am sincerely sorry, dr Dave. Du coup, I’ve added this event to our prefferred online source of general culture — both in English and French. Would you kindly help with the Japanese translation? 😉