These British-American Coincidences Blew My Mind | JFK, Doctor Who, and More

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  • @jbwetzstein
    @jbwetzstein Рік тому +198

    Laurence, I'm sure someone has already said it, but you, sir, are an American treasure.

    • @IceGangsta
      @IceGangsta Рік тому +21

      An international one too, perhaps

    • @AndaraBledin
      @AndaraBledin Рік тому +11

      A mid-Atlantic treasure, perhaps?

    • @veramae4098
      @veramae4098 Рік тому +4

      Just wish he would stop teleporting.

    • @Tuaron
      @Tuaron Рік тому +9

      To split the difference between being a US or UK treasure, I'll just confusingly claim him for Canada. I'm sure he's once considered visiting here, which is good enough for us.

    • @jbwetzstein
      @jbwetzstein Рік тому +7

      He's an American treasure because he's an American citizen. I'm happy to claim him. You can't have him, Canada! Haha.

  • @MichaelScheele
    @MichaelScheele Рік тому +68

    Lawrence, Guy Fawkes Day is not celebrated in the US because George Washington put a stop to its celebration back in 1775. Guy Fawkes Day (then called Pope's Day) tended to have a rather anti-Catholic bent. The Continental Army needed all the men it could muster; alienating Catholics would have been detrimental to recruitment.

  • @stevepetersen7697
    @stevepetersen7697 Рік тому +147

    The British and the Americans are two great peoples divided by a common tongue. - George Bernard Shaw

    • @NocturnEternal
      @NocturnEternal Рік тому +5

      I liked GBS’s take on the Pygmalion mythology. But still, that’s spot on.

    • @sboinkthelegday3892
      @sboinkthelegday3892 Рік тому +1

      Did you ever notice that "father" is still said in a UK accent?
      It's not "fad her", it's "uuuuuuh, you're a fuuuuuuther, uuuh" in that preppy voice.

    • @zedwpd
      @zedwpd Рік тому +2

      I'm married to a Brit. It's murder.

    • @etiennesharp
      @etiennesharp Рік тому +6

      ...and a bloody great ocean, thank Christ - Al Murray.

    • @BullScrapPracEff
      @BullScrapPracEff Рік тому

      "You say caterpillar, we say caterpillar..."

  • @lorienolte3988
    @lorienolte3988 Рік тому +70

    On July 4th in 1826, exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died. Coincidence? Perhaps…

    • @johnnymartinjohansen
      @johnnymartinjohansen Рік тому +9

      Ehh... no.
      The signing of the declaration mostly happened August 2nd (some signed later). It was adopted July 4th, but not signed.

    • @alicerudolph8106
      @alicerudolph8106 Рік тому +3

      But it's the day that is celebrated as the birthday of the nation!@@johnnymartinjohansen

    • @veramae4098
      @veramae4098 Рік тому +3

      As each man died his *last words* were (something like)
      "Jefferson still lives, the country is safe." and
      "Adams will keep the country well."

    • @frankhooper7871
      @frankhooper7871 Рік тому +6

      John Adams was the 2nd president, Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd - the 5th president was James Monroe who also died on the 4th of July...5 years later.

    • @Intrusive_Thought176
      @Intrusive_Thought176 Рік тому

      ​@@johnnymartinjohansenproof?

  • @darlameeks
    @darlameeks Рік тому +34

    I was born in November, as well. I was just over a year old when Kennedy and Lewis died. C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors, along with his friend, J.R.R. Tolkien. They were both members of the Oxford Christian authors' club, "The Inklings". They are likely responsible for my contracting a chronic case of Anglophilia in my teens, which I carry to this day. When I was 16, I decided I would one day study English literature at Oxford (where they studied and taught). It took ten years, but I did it. I will say, having two degrees in English hasn't been as useless as people think, these many years later. I went on to do quite well in the insurance industry...another British import, I believe. Love your channel, by the bye!

    • @grahampaulkendrick7845
      @grahampaulkendrick7845 Рік тому +3

      I live near Bournemouh where Tolkien spent his holidays each summer. I once played a song or two at the hotel he used to stay at.

  • @jimreilly917
    @jimreilly917 Рік тому +25

    Lawrence I’m from Missouri, Mark Twains home state. You did that voice well. While his voice wasn’t recorded, your Midwest rural American is on point 😂🇺🇸

  • @efretheim
    @efretheim Рік тому +39

    I actually learned some time ago that, due to shifts in English pronunciation, Halley more than likely pronounced his name "Holly", unlike both current British and American pronunciations.

    • @caroljo420
      @caroljo420 Рік тому +6

      The reason Americans call it Haley's comet is because there was a band in the '50s and '60s called Bill Haley and the Comets. I learned in the early '70s that the actual comet was called Halley's and not Haley's comet.

    • @robertfoulkes1832
      @robertfoulkes1832 Рік тому +4

      Not so much "Holly" as "Hor-lee".

  • @Deltaflot1701
    @Deltaflot1701 Рік тому +13

    Thank you for having the Dr. Who/JFK Coincidence. I knew that one for awhile, but losing Ms. Lambert that same day several years later is something I didn't realize.

  • @wayneyadams
    @wayneyadams Рік тому +113

    Mark twain is a nautical term which Mark Twain got from his days as a riverboat captain. It is a depth sounding signifying two fathoms (12 feet). A fathom is six feet, the distance between an average man's outstretched arms. Depth soundings were done by dropping one end of a line overboard to which a weight was attached. As it was pulled up the sailor grabbed it stretched it out between his arms and counted. He then grabbed the line back at his first hand and stretched it out again counting as he did so. This led to a natural depth unit which was called the fathom. The name derives from the Old English word fæðm, from the Danish (via the Vikings) word "favn" meaning embracing arms or a pair of outstretched arms. Twain means two.

    • @globalheart
      @globalheart Рік тому +9

      Heh. 2 names! But I thought they were marks made on a wall, to check river height/,depth, to make sure you had passage. Great explanation with the etymology, too. Thx!!

    • @9HighFlyer9
      @9HighFlyer9 Рік тому +9

      A modern fathom is 6ft. As it was based on the wingspan of an average man that would have been more like 5½ft in the late 1800s.

    • @Hollylivengood
      @Hollylivengood Рік тому +5

      ​@@globalheartThere weren't any walls to mark on the Mississippi. It wasn't meant to be two names, it was two knotted marks on the line. Mark twain was safe waters, probably Samuel Clemens's goal, so he he went wit Mark Twain.

    • @wayneyadams
      @wayneyadams Рік тому

      @@9HighFlyer9 There is always yahoo like you who has some contradictory comment to make. My question is, where is your evidence for what you call a "modern" fathom and when was it REDFINED?!

    • @globalheart
      @globalheart Рік тому +1

      @@Hollylivengood :) I referred to Samuel himself having 2 names ;)

  • @SLSLNQELRQKJ
    @SLSLNQELRQKJ Рік тому +1

    I'm an American, married to a Brit. We met in England and started dating in November 2008, when he took me to see the fireworks for Bonfire Night.

  • @jimtaylor294
    @jimtaylor294 Рік тому +19

    "I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day; but I don't trust coincidences" - Elim Garek

    • @jimtaylor294
      @jimtaylor294 Рік тому +1

      ^ No 😆

    • @Ashley-xu1lk
      @Ashley-xu1lk 11 місяців тому +3

      I appreciate the DS9 reference!

    • @myself248
      @myself248 2 місяці тому +1

      “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” -- Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

  • @tmhc72_gtg22c
    @tmhc72_gtg22c Рік тому +32

    As soon as I saw the title of this video, I thought of the two Dennis the Menaces, and you did mention them, which is another November coincidence.
    There was a national news program (I think it was the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite), which was going to have a report on November 22, 1963 about the Beatles, who were almost completely unknown in the US at the time. They had to postpone the report to a later date.

    • @KairuHakubi
      @KairuHakubi Рік тому +4

      I thought of that too, but I'm surprised to hear we actually know what inspired the name. I thought there must have been a popular song at the time or something

  • @Sythemn
    @Sythemn Рік тому +4

    Man, I don't even really care about the content. But the way you deliver it is fantastic.

  • @kathyjohnson2043
    @kathyjohnson2043 Рік тому +20

    Coincidentally, I was actually eating a York Peppermint Patty as I clicked on this video! 😮

  • @jaredwblack
    @jaredwblack Рік тому +8

    A guy named Peter Kreeft wrote a book called "Between Heaven and Hell," which is a fictional dialog between C. S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley and JFK when they met in Purgatory the day they all died

  • @leonardking84
    @leonardking84 Рік тому +12

    Another exceptional offering from my favorite Brit.
    Your videos are a much needed distraction from the woes of this crazy world.
    Thank you, Laurence.

  • @nathanhorst8886
    @nathanhorst8886 Рік тому +18

    The smile on my face lightens the mood in the room when I see you post a new video. Cheers ! Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.

  • @revan0890
    @revan0890 Рік тому +16

    You should check out the coincidence between Lincoln and JFK.

    • @lindaeasley5606
      @lindaeasley5606 Рік тому +4

      Yes 👍
      Some try to debunk as just coincidences but some similarities the odds are too great to be simple coincidences

  • @mitziwright3314
    @mitziwright3314 Рік тому +34

    Such a FUN video, Laurence! Makes me quite happy I'm a subscriber. 💜 Happy November birthday! 🎉

  • @robylove9190
    @robylove9190 Рік тому +9

    Ooh Laurence. Those coincidences were very coincidental.❤

  • @samanthab1923
    @samanthab1923 Рік тому +7

    Your fireplace looks lovely ❤

  • @iceguy9723
    @iceguy9723 Рік тому +6

    I LOVE York patties. Too much.

  • @loraweems8712
    @loraweems8712 Рік тому +6

    Happy Birthday, Laurence!🎉

  • @license2kilttheplaidlad640
    @license2kilttheplaidlad640 Рік тому +8

    There's a Dick Vandyke episode where he inherited a photograph of a baby from a great uncle clues lead them to realize the photo is of the uncle is the baby on the lap of Lincoln , the episode was filmed on 11/22/63 that was also the day they began filming for Bewitched!

    • @pintpot
      @pintpot 2 місяці тому

      And, in the black and white original version of the opening credits of 'Gilligan's Island', you can see that there's a flag in the harbor at half staff. It was filmed in Hawaii on the weekend of the JFK assassination.

  • @redfishtex738
    @redfishtex738 Рік тому +5

    Well, that video with all the coincidences made my head rather loopy. How very, very strange but yet again another great video!

  • @bryn494
    @bryn494 Рік тому +6

    I'm halfway into the York thing and have to fiddle with something. About 30 seconds into fiddling a strong aroma of peppermint floods my mind as if it had been sprayed into the room :D

  • @jessicanichols2434
    @jessicanichols2434 Рік тому +2

    🐶 Aww! ❤ Hello puppy!! 🐾 🐾

  • @lookinglassgrrl3811
    @lookinglassgrrl3811 Рік тому +1

    My only Beano reference comes from an episode of Time Team, in which Sir Tony Robinson says "can you explain to me, in words a Beano reader would understand, what geophysics is"

  • @ellenbryn
    @ellenbryn Рік тому +1

    well, you are just educating me all over the place. I am one of many American Doctor Who fans who remembers the date Kennedy was shot by remembering the day of Doctor Who's premiere, but we're all off by a day.
    I didn't realize Verity Lambert had gone out on the same day (or CS Lewis).

  • @micheledeetlefs6041
    @micheledeetlefs6041 Рік тому +19

    While there are no recordings currently in existence of Mark Twain, the southern actor Hal Holbrook famously did shows as Mark Twain. You might enjoy watching a few of them or listening to some of the recordings. I'm pretty sure they must be littering UA-cam somewhere.

    • @cynthiajohnston424
      @cynthiajohnston424 Рік тому +1

      Well worth watching / listening & also MT is excellent reading - wonderfully intelligent yet witty & delightful dry humor !

    • @seed_drill7135
      @seed_drill7135 Рік тому +2

      I saw his act in the Clemons Center in Corning, NY.

  • @just_kos99
    @just_kos99 Рік тому +5

    Oh Em Gee, I'm so glad you mentioned "Doctor Who"! I've seen you wear a Doctor Who shirt before, so that wasn't too surprising but I'm glad you did anyway. I never knew they re-broadcast it a week later, in 1963.

  • @stevolkman
    @stevolkman Рік тому +11

    How about Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, leaders of the American Revolution against Britain, died on the same day, July 4, 1826?

  • @jrm78
    @jrm78 Рік тому +1

    2:33 Construction barrels in the "Welcome to Pennsylvania" shot are very on brand for the state.

  • @RedWingsninetyone
    @RedWingsninetyone Рік тому +488

    Title includes the words "blew my mind" and the thumnail features a photo of JFK 💀

  • @zippitydoodah5693
    @zippitydoodah5693 Рік тому +3

    excellent show!!

  • @rayscotchcoulton
    @rayscotchcoulton Рік тому +5

    "Coincidenting." My new favorite word. Cheers.

  • @silver-fd3cv
    @silver-fd3cv Рік тому +3

    I love your beautiful living room!
    The colors, the fireplace, etc. !❤

  • @JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts
    @JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts Рік тому +6

    Very cool selection of coincidences. Thanks for putting them together and sharing, Laurence. ❤

  • @arthurmartin4616
    @arthurmartin4616 3 місяці тому

    Didn't expect Doctor Who to show up like this, but here we are. Learn something new every day.

  • @Cheesegoddess
    @Cheesegoddess Рік тому +6

    The Dennis the Menace one has always been so crazy to me. I actually found out about this with a British friend. We were both arguing about which came first, went to the internet to look it up and were completely shocked to see it was the same! Had a good laugh though about it, do bad we didn't make a bet, we both would have won and lost lol

  • @heavysetmedia1904
    @heavysetmedia1904 Рік тому +1

    I love the "V for vendetta" reference wearing the oven gloves and apron!

  • @ConservativeVeteran
    @ConservativeVeteran Рік тому +1

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LAURENCE!!!

  • @charlenemack7040
    @charlenemack7040 Рік тому +6

    Love you Laurence 😊💙

  • @barbaralavoie1045
    @barbaralavoie1045 Рік тому +2

    I really enjoy your humor, Lawrence.❤️

  • @richb313
    @richb313 Рік тому +1

    Thanks Laurence just the pick me up I needed.

  • @FourFish47
    @FourFish47 Рік тому +4

    Ooooooo Laurence!!! Your house is looking gorgeous!! ❤

  • @PaulaStone365
    @PaulaStone365 Рік тому +1

    You are reacted to by so many people. I found you by that way but OMG you are brilliant and I'm glad I found you in the pond!

  • @HT-ww3zg
    @HT-ww3zg Рік тому +3

    Your BEST video, Lawrence. EVER.

  • @quaintlyeccentric
    @quaintlyeccentric Рік тому +1

    Great video, Laurence!

  • @telecasterbear
    @telecasterbear Рік тому +9

    We had only seven trick or treaters come to the door. Six were dressed as our host, Laurence.

  • @BonkedByAScout
    @BonkedByAScout Рік тому +1

    A recurring note in your undertone music is the same as the first note of my alarm clock and it's driving me insane

  • @BartdeBoisblanc
    @BartdeBoisblanc Рік тому +1

    Larence you have just made my day and month.

  • @BDUBZ49
    @BDUBZ49 Рік тому +1

    One of your best videos. Very interesting. As usual.. well researched, organized and impeccable delivery. Btw.. beautiful fireplace!

  • @AtarahDerek
    @AtarahDerek Рік тому +4

    On the one hand, Jack would not have been offended at being booted from the front page. On the other, he would've been sorry it only happened because of another man's murder.
    My parents were married on November 22, 1986.

    • @md_vandenberg
      @md_vandenberg Рік тому +1

      If anyone is confused, "Jack" is the name C.S. Lewis preferred to be called by. Why you might ask? The C.S. stands for Clive Staples.

  • @williambailey344
    @williambailey344 Рік тому +1

    Brilliant Lawrence really enjoyed that video I love things like this.

  • @Franciso-so1bg
    @Franciso-so1bg Рік тому +2

    That was so interesting. That took a lot of research.

  • @bonniewills2814
    @bonniewills2814 Рік тому +6

    Happy Birthday!! My mother turned 84 today 😃

    • @FourFish47
      @FourFish47 Рік тому +2

      Happy Birthday mom!! 🎉❤

    • @jmcg6189
      @jmcg6189 Рік тому

      My mother would have turned 107 today had she not died shortly before her 100th birthday.

  • @craigcorson3036
    @craigcorson3036 Рік тому +5

    I just learned something yesterday that you may or may not also know. In Britain, a vice is either a holding device bolted to a workbench, or a bad habit like gambling or smoking. In the USA, the former is spelled with an S, vise.

    • @markbradley7323
      @markbradley7323 Рік тому

      And the police have a 'vice squad'.

    • @Ithirahad
      @Ithirahad Рік тому

      I'd write both as vice. I had no idea we theoretically had a different spelling for the clampy bit.

    • @craigcorson3036
      @craigcorson3036 Рік тому

      @@Ithirahad There's nothing theoretical about it.
      vise /vīs/
      noun
      A heavy clamp, usually mounted on a workbench and operated by a screw or lever, used in carpentry or metalworking to hold a piece in position.

  • @ResistTyranny2024
    @ResistTyranny2024 Рік тому +1

    Enlightening and entertaining Lawrence. I hope you make another video similar to this one in the near future.

  • @LandCfan
    @LandCfan Рік тому +12

    Speaking of strange death coincidences: on American Founding father and former president John Adam's death bed, his last words were "Jefferson still lives." Fellow founding father and former president Thomas Jefferson had died a few hours earlier in Virginia. The day was July 4th, the date on the Declaration of Independence they had both not only signed, but both had been on the Committee of Five assigned in the Continental Congress to draft the declaration, which Jefferson wrote. In life, they had been at times close friends, and at others bitter rivals and enemies, making up again in old age. Fate decided to connect them one more time.

  • @marlenepearson3936
    @marlenepearson3936 Рік тому +1

    Well, that's just spooky 👻, Laurence. Happy November Birthday 🎂 🥳

  • @Rosatodi2006
    @Rosatodi2006 Рік тому +1

    The Alton Telegraph? Interesting choice. I used to read my grandparents Alton Telegraph all the time. Even took a field trip to their printing facility.

  • @MrVince8
    @MrVince8 Рік тому +1

    You are one of my favorite UA-camrs.

  • @ellenwheeler2031
    @ellenwheeler2031 Рік тому

    Great installment. Love your channel.

  • @bluejayjitsu4429
    @bluejayjitsu4429 Рік тому

    My gosh, Your delivery is so engaging

  • @genablack1652
    @genablack1652 Рік тому

    WOW great vid Laurence!!!!

  • @geologyjoerocks
    @geologyjoerocks 11 місяців тому

    Great video!!! Hank Ketchum of the American Dennis the Menace was also an abstract painter, and made all sorts of cool paintings. There’s a hospital near where I live in Monterey California that he endowed with much of his art collection, so you can peruse his art while you wait for your niece to be born.

  • @heidifedor
    @heidifedor Рік тому +2

    Interesting side note, before Nestlie acquired Rowntree, the latter had an exclusive contract in the US with Hershey’s. When Nestlie bought Rowntree in 1988, Hershey successfully took Nestlie to court over the rights to produce Kit-Kats and Rolos in the US.

    • @seed_drill7135
      @seed_drill7135 Рік тому +1

      Now Nestles has sold off their candy division in America after the PA legislature blocked their acquisition of Hershey’s.

  • @LindaC616
    @LindaC616 Рік тому

    Lovely décor, Tara!

  • @nariu7times328
    @nariu7times328 Рік тому +1

    This channel is so fun!

  • @thebadbandito
    @thebadbandito Рік тому +58

    I knew the Dennis the Menace story but it still trips me out that they were published on the same day. Sounds too coincidental.

    • @Phiyedough
      @Phiyedough Рік тому +1

      Yes, definite plagiarism but which way?

    • @caroljo420
      @caroljo420 Рік тому +6

      I blame "collective conscience" for that.

    • @jr2904
      @jr2904 Рік тому +7

      ​@@Phiyedough plagiarism from across the ocean when there wasn't any Internet, international television, and long distance phone calls were very expensive. It's just a huge coincidence.

    • @theemmjay5130
      @theemmjay5130 7 місяців тому

      @@Phiyedough Obviously, one of them was a yime traveler. The question is: Which one?

  • @webbtrekker534
    @webbtrekker534 Рік тому +2

    ....and I was born in November 1945 and I'm still here this November. By the way. Happy Birthday Lawrence from a fellow November Birthday guy!

  • @LullabyLuella
    @LullabyLuella Рік тому +3

    My mother died Nov 22nd in 1958, and my geeatgrandfather on Nov 22nd 1951, which was also his birthday. Grandmother on another side died on that date in 1975. My family just calls it death day.

    • @lindaeasley5606
      @lindaeasley5606 Рік тому

      My mother died on Nov. 22 ,2020
      Three members of my family through 3 generations had a child born on Nov 2 and all three died at an early age. An unlucky day to be born in our family

    • @LullabyLuella
      @LullabyLuella Рік тому

      @lindaeasley5606 wow. Funny how these things can attach to a date.

  • @lynnerussell1440
    @lynnerussell1440 Рік тому +1

    Loved this one.

  • @nthgth
    @nthgth Рік тому

    So glad Dennis the Menace was on this list! First learned about that astonishing coincidence from the AVGN 😄

  • @Hypatia52
    @Hypatia52 Рік тому +3

    I might add, thanks to Mr. Ketchum, my brother has always hated his own name, Dennis, born in September, 1951.

  • @deantodd8103
    @deantodd8103 Рік тому +3

    LMAO @ "Why am I German now?" 🤣
    I dunno, but British-American actor Richard Dawson occasionally did a pretty funny German accent on Hogan's Heroes. 😉
    This video has quite a few of the things I like: Spider-Man, chocolate, C.S. Lewis, Dr. Who, and Halloween. Kudos! 😊

  • @ElicBehexan
    @ElicBehexan Рік тому +3

    My sister was born in November, as was my wife and I. One of my best friends died, my mother died and my father died. All the births and deaths were in close proximity to each other. My bestie died the day before my sister's birthday, my mother died the day after my wife's and my father died the day after mine. However, I do share my birthday with The Doctor, November 23rd. I'm 10 years older however.

  • @charlierichardson613
    @charlierichardson613 Рік тому

    This was a great episode!

  • @mavahuth5044
    @mavahuth5044 Рік тому

    Happy birthday 🎉 and glad you hoped over the pond.😊

  • @ajwinberg
    @ajwinberg Рік тому +4

    I was born in November too.😅 This was a great video full of stuff I never actually knew.

  • @lauramorris3409
    @lauramorris3409 Рік тому

    Ooh, Lawrence! Very interesting!

  • @jarancrane2462
    @jarancrane2462 Рік тому

    Okay. That Dennis the Menace one is unbelievable!!!!

  • @sarahheld3761
    @sarahheld3761 Рік тому +3

    When my Dad was in the Navy his ship USS Belnap had a collision with USS Kennedy on November 22! Then many years later hi father died 11/22 as well.😮

  • @pameladonnelson2093
    @pameladonnelson2093 Рік тому +1

    Love your videos 😂❤

  • @jameswoodard4304
    @jameswoodard4304 Рік тому

    As a word guy, I thought Lawrence wouldn't make this mistake.
    He said that some people don't think coincidences exist, but that they are, instead, just a losely-connected sense of unrelated events.
    Yet, that's essentially what "coincidence" means. A coincidence *implies* a lack of actual causal relationship between the events. They are simply two events which happen to have some superficial factor in common. That's why we say that something is "only" a coincidence. We are saying that there is no real connection.
    So, basically, Lawrence said, "Some people don't think that coincidences exist, but, instead, think they are just coincidences."

  • @AndaraBledin
    @AndaraBledin Рік тому +17

    It's quite a coincidence that Rowntree would come up, as I first learned of their existence in the last week when a Canadian friend was enjoying some Smarties which are nothing like the US candy Smarties, and which are significantly superior to our Smarties, and likely better than the M&Ms that the Rowntree Smarties resemble.
    My mother and aunt lived their own set of coincidences. Having been part of the Baby Boomer generation, they were born well before the time of ultrasound. My grandmother's fourth pregnancy, she and my grandfather assumed this would be a second son. He, being something of a joker, would start his visits to see her in the hospital while they awaited her labor by asking, "How are my twins." When this was eventually met with, "Oh, you must be Mr. Hisname," he found out the joke was on him.
    However, that was not the end of the story. My grandparents had moved from down east out to the opposite coast, settling in sunny southern California, unwilling to return to the harsh winters of their original homes of New England and Minnesota once they had both left the military service that had brought them together. And so, following the birth of his 4th & 5th children, he placed calls back to where her family still resided to present them with the good news. He was met with surprise by those on other end that he would already know. Once the matter was untangled, it came out that on that very same day, another member of the family had also given birth to another baby girl.

    • @Beedo_Sookcool
      @Beedo_Sookcool Рік тому +2

      Rowntree sweets were just that bit better before the Evil Nestlé Empire took over. The Kit Kats were a little bit cocoa-ier and tasted even better chilled, and while the Smarties today have a vague hint of orange flavour to the chocolate, I remember they used to have orange flavour in the orange ones and coffee flavour in the brown ones.

  • @LarryHatch
    @LarryHatch Рік тому +2

    Twain's death was no doubt hastened by his addiction to tobacco. He famously said "it's very easy to quit smoking...in fact I do it 30 times every day".

    • @johnopalko5223
      @johnopalko5223 Рік тому

      Since he lived to be 74 it probably didn't hasten it all that much.

  • @RhondaKennedy63
    @RhondaKennedy63 Рік тому +9

    Did anyone else notice the portrait of Isaac Newton looks a little bit like Quentin Tarantino?

  • @jimikelley189
    @jimikelley189 Рік тому +1

    "Profound fear of Turkish Delight" LOLOLOL !!! This was a great video !

  • @JenniferKitchens123
    @JenniferKitchens123 Рік тому +1

    Happy birthday! 🎁🎉🎂

  • @Allan_aka_RocKITEman
    @Allan_aka_RocKITEman Рік тому

    (1) I moved into my current residence in _November_ of 2007.
    (2) In the Stanley Kubrick motion picture *DR. STRANGELOVE (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb)* there is a line where Slim Pickens' character Major Kong says:
    *_"...a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in_** Vegas **_with all that stuff."_*
    The line originally mentioned *"...Dallas..."* {as in Texas}. Just before the movie was released President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Slim Pickens redubbed the line and the movie was released with the new dialog.

  • @Donna_Relaxing
    @Donna_Relaxing Рік тому +2

    Hey this just showed up - you posted it 3 minutes ago!!! I need your “calming” breaks

  • @CyndiDeimler
    @CyndiDeimler Рік тому

    I never knew that York Peppermint Patties weren't known nationally until the 70s! I was born in 1956 and grew up near York, Pa (actually closer to Hershey )and I remember them being one of my dad's favorites ever since I can remember. I had no idea it was only available locally!

    • @geoffroi-le-Hook
      @geoffroi-le-Hook Рік тому +1

      Returning to the comics page, Charlie Brown's friend Peppermint Patty was named after the candy.

  • @ThatsGoldJerry575
    @ThatsGoldJerry575 Рік тому +3

    We need more videos about grocery stores!

  • @cathygould
    @cathygould Рік тому

    This is one of my favorites of yours😄❣️ Literature and candy are 2 big loves😊😄👍🏽🤟🏽😘

  • @kimfleury
    @kimfleury Рік тому +3

    Happy birthday! A coincidence is an incident that occurs with (co-) another incident. My firstborn and only daughter was born on the last day of November, and her firstborn and elder son was born the day before the anniversary of the deaths of Lewis, Huxley, JFK, etc.

  • @grahampaulkendrick7845
    @grahampaulkendrick7845 Рік тому

    I moved to Canada from the UK on November 23, 1966 at the age of 14.

  • @redgreen82
    @redgreen82 Рік тому

    With the Beatles was released in the UK, November 22nd, 1963. There was supposed to be a special about The Beatles that was supposed to to air that evening in the US, but assassination coverage cancelled it.
    Five years later to the day, The Beatles released "the white album".

    • @Ozziecatsmom
      @Ozziecatsmom Рік тому

      What a wild 5 years that was. From I want to hold your hand to the White album seems it should be much longer.

  • @neutrino78x
    @neutrino78x Рік тому +2

    6:55 oooh, lawrence, you forgot to mention Mark Twain's brief visit aboard the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D!! 🙂 lol I love your videos 🙂

    • @augiegirl1
      @augiegirl1 Рік тому +2

      Check out this season of Lower Decks; Mark Twain’s appearance in “Time's Arrow” is referenced in episodes 4 & 10!

    • @neutrino78x
      @neutrino78x Рік тому

      @@augiegirl1 nice! I haven't seen lower decks yet. I gotta check it out 🙂

    • @augiegirl1
      @augiegirl1 Рік тому +2

      @@neutrino78x the 4th season just ended last week. The series TRULY is a love letter to classic Trek!