@MRSCORKER If you got this attention with James Monroe, where the average person that is not an American History Buff will even figure out there is a connection (because as hard as the person that commented something about weeping for the education system might believe, not everyone is from America, or been exposed to American history, or even truly cares!) - can you imagine what I would have gotten if I admitted that originally when I was planning for a family, if I had a girl I wanted to name her Marie Antoinette, and even my mother said "because she'll be a glutton that gets beheaded?" my response "Why yes, but she'll go down with attitude bitches!"
edit: because ya that didn't make sense
Exactly this. My (German) DH has made it a point to learn a bunch of random facts about US presidents and then quiz random Americans he runs into. He has collected extensive evidence that Americans are CLUELESS. I just asked him about James Monroe and he finds him to be a relatively boring president - the only scandal is that he owned slaves. So yeah, I can't imagine many will make that connection
I only came here to comment on presidents. I have no confession this week as I am the boring goody two-shoes people forget to invite to the party...
ETA I just read the name board and WOW. PLEASE @MRSCORKER name him James Monroe so that when he discovers the cure to cancer everyone can eat cake (British version) and we never have to hear about a guy who lived in the 1700s and wore a wig again...
@MRSCORKER If you got this attention with James Monroe, where the average person that is not an American History Buff will even figure out there is a connection (because as hard as the person that commented something about weeping for the education system might believe, not everyone is from America, or been exposed to American history, or even truly cares!) - can you imagine what I would have gotten if I admitted that originally when I was planning for a family, if I had a girl I wanted to name her Marie Antoinette, and even my mother said "because she'll be a glutton that gets beheaded?" my response "Why yes, but she'll go down with attitude bitches!"
edit: because ya that didn't make sense
Exactly this. My (German) DH has made it a point to learn a bunch of random facts about US presidents and then quiz random Americans he runs into. He has collected extensive evidence that Americans are CLUELESS. I just asked him about James Monroe and he finds him to be a relatively boring president - the only scandal is that he owned slaves. So yeah, I can't imagine many will make that connection
I only came here to comment on presidents. I have no confession this week as I am the boring goody two-shoes people forget to invite to the party...
ETA I just read the name board and WOW. PLEASE @MRSCORKER name him James Monroe so that when he discovers the cure to cancer everyone can eat cake (British version) and we never have to hear about a guy who lived in the 1700s and wore a wig again...
I told my husband (who knows a lot more about history than the average American) about this "controversy" and his response was "James Monroe wasn't a terrible president and the Monroe Doctrine was not the worst idea for a newly-formed country trying to establish itself." So, yeah, it's not like @MRSCORKER said she was naming him Idi Amin.
Re: FFFC 6.24.2016
Exactly this. My (German) DH has made it a point to learn a bunch of random facts about US presidents and then quiz random Americans he runs into. He has collected extensive evidence that Americans are CLUELESS. I just asked him about James Monroe and he finds him to be a relatively boring president - the only scandal is that he owned slaves. So yeah, I can't imagine many will make that connection
I only came here to comment on presidents. I have no confession this week as I am the boring goody two-shoes people forget to invite to the party...
ETA I just read the name board and WOW. PLEASE @MRSCORKER name him James Monroe so that when he discovers the cure to cancer everyone can eat cake (British version) and we never have to hear about a guy who lived in the 1700s and wore a wig again...
DS#2 due 25 April 2019