Meebs & Jovial's Quest for Power

[Jovial]

Russia; 1998

Caught forging a prescription for Vicodin ten years after being crowned.

[Jovial]

Great Britain; 2006

Stripped of her crown for...nude photos; also for sleeping with a judge.

[Jovial]

Trinidad and Tobago; 2008

A video leaked online featuring Miss Trinidad and Tobago in a threesome.

[Jovial]

France; 2008

She was asked to step down after discoveries of her posing in a bikini on a crucifix leaked.

[Jovial]

Venezuela; 2008

Was ridiculed for making politically inauspicious statements while touring Guantanamo.

[Jovial]

England; 2009

Surrendered her crown after pun ching another beauty queen; apparently they were fighting over a bodybuilder.

[Jovial]

:biggrin:

And no one esle can be hurt by me in the process of this...a wonderful solution!

[Jovial]

Huh!

Alejandro Bello Silva [Chile; 1914]

His disappearance during a qualifying exam flight over central Chile inspired the saying "more lost than Lieutenant Bello."

[Jovial]

Anyhow, I won't ruin this for Evan, Meebs, Omar and Miles...who ever else still uses it.

So I may start a Facts thread for fun...not sure.......

[MisterTinkles]

Did Marie Antoinette REALLY say "Let them eat cake"???


It’s one of the most famous quotes in history. At some point around 1789, when being told that her French subjects had no bread, Marie-Antoinette (bride of France’s King Louis XVI) supposedly sniffed, “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche”—“Let them eat cake.” With that callous remark, the queen became a hated symbol of the decadent monarchy and fueled the revolution that would cause her to (literally) lose her head several years later. But did Marie-Antoinette really say those infuriating words? Not according to historians. Lady Antonia Fraser, author of a biography of the French queen, believes the quote would have been highly uncharacteristic of Marie-Antoinette, an intelligent woman who donated generously to charitable causes and, despite her own undeniably lavish lifestyle, displayed sensitivity towards the poor population of France.

That aside, what’s even more convincing is the fact that the “Let them eat cake” story had been floating around for years before 1789. It was first told in a slightly different form about Marie-Thérèse, the Spanish princess who married King Louis XIV in 1660. She allegedly suggested that the French people eat “la croûte de pâté” (or the crust of the pâté). Over the next century, several other 18th-century royals were also blamed for the remark, including two aunts of Louis XVI. Most famously, the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau included the pâté story in his “Confessions” in 1766, attributing the words to “a great princess” (probably Marie-Thérèse). Whoever uttered those unforgettable words, it was almost certainly not Marie-Antoinette, who at the time Rousseau was writing was only 10 years old—three years away from marrying the French prince and eight years from becoming queen.

http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/...m-eat-cake



(yeah, I know, its too long)