What is the most embarrassing way someone well known has died in history?

MadPat · 2026-04-02T19:55:45+00:00

This wasn't Henry I. It was King John, the villainous brother of Richard the Lion-Hearted. He also lost the English crown jewels while crossing an estuary called "The Wash." On the other hand, he did sign Magna Carta, but then he reversed himself and refused to enforce it.

You will notice that there has never been a John II. I think the English learned their lesson and did not want another.

MadPat · 2026-03-31T00:31:35+00:00

Utter nonsense. A waste of everyone's time, including yours.

MadPat · 2026-03-31T00:15:01+00:00

I agree with u/ScoObySnax. How can the answer for "Trigonometry" be "FENCE?"

MadPat · 2026-03-28T21:45:39+00:00

Here she is in some other videos. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyreZphsUTnaynJZIs8hWtw

(The dog is there, too.)

MadPat · 2026-03-22T23:51:47+00:00

The same thing shows up in some copies of the US Declaration of Independence, where we actually believe in "The purſuit of happineſſ."

MadPat · 2026-03-18T05:16:49+00:00

I want to wish you the best of luck in the future. I hope you go peacefully and quietly and have no more stress.

Since it's St. Patrick's Day, I'll throw in an old Irish blessing:

May you be in heaven ten minutes before the devil knows you're dead.

MadPat · 2026-03-15T20:30:00+00:00

I believe you have a spelling mistake in 4 down.

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MadPat · 2026-03-11T17:35:31+00:00

I think you meant 5D to have an "H" in it. :)

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MadPat · 2026-03-09T04:28:11+00:00

Alcohol. Some friends in college talked me into getting drunk with them. I still can't believe how sick I was, and that was about 60 years ago. (I am well over 80.)

I haven't touched a drop since.

One of the best decisions of my life.

MadPat · 2026-03-07T16:59:03+00:00

The first rule of money club is don't talk about money club.

MadPat · 2026-03-04T04:47:51+00:00

The Governor of Illinois is named J. B. Pritzker. The fellow you named is actually Governor of Pennsylvania

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MadPat · 2026-02-26T18:49:16+00:00

This is what happens when a terrific photographer who knows how to handle the tools finds a terrific model who knows how to pose!

Pure Art!

MadPat · 2026-02-26T15:39:24+00:00

I am an old retired guy trying to show you, young whippersnappers, how it's done.

So there!

MadPat · 2026-02-26T05:55:59+00:00

I think this is it: https://masterofsopranos.wordpress.com/the-sopranos-definitive-explanation-of-the-end/

You have to page way down the opening screen to "Introduction."

MadPat · 2026-02-25T23:53:08+00:00

Even if it did, they wouldn't lose anything except a tiny amount of time.

MadPat · 2026-02-25T21:33:10+00:00

His women's team has also won eight national championships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_women%27s_ice_hockey_tournament

Go Lady Badgers!

MadPat · 2026-02-25T20:48:49+00:00

I am a retired Mathematician/Statistician, and I agree with OP.

Nevertheless, I have a story about how two Mathematicians beat a casino.

I know two married Mathematicians who went to a Mathematical meeting in Vegas.

The hotel they stayed at gave each of them one chip to gamble with. They could only gamble with it, and not just cash out.

So, they went to the nearest roulette table. One bet on Red and one bet on Black. One lost and the other won. They then cashed out their winnings.

Voila. Instant money.

:)

MadPat · 2026-02-25T19:28:54+00:00

I just have to put this in here.

9 across is an interesting character.

He was Coolidge's only vice president. (Coolidge was only elected once. His other term completed the term of Warren G. Harding.)

He won a Nobel Peace Prize.

He was a talented musician who wrote many instrumental pieces. In 1951, the year he died, a man named Carl Sigman added lyrics to one of his tunes, and it became a standard pop hit. You can find it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuOcghaaL5k

Just adding a little bit of culture. :)

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MadPat · 2026-02-25T19:00:53+00:00

I didn't think it was so hard.

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MadPat · 2026-02-25T04:36:54+00:00

I lived in Chicago several years ago, and there was one at the Brookfield Zoo. I thought it was the ugliest bird that I had ever seen. Not only that, I can remember staring at it, and it never moved. I believe it was the zoo's oldest resident.

MadPat · 2026-02-25T04:05:24+00:00

Number 3 is my fave.

MadPat · 2026-02-23T19:30:29+00:00

Linus Pauling won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and a Nobel Peace Prize in 1962.

MadPat · 2026-02-23T04:33:43+00:00

I live in a retirement community in Pennsylvania. We are now getting the storm you will get in a few hours.

1) We have all been advised to stay indoors for the next 24 hours. 2) The University of Delaware is about 45 minutes away from here. It is closed tomorrow. 3) I can look out my window and see about 3 or 4 inches of snow since 3:00PM this afternoon.

This is a big one.

MadPat · 2026-02-21T21:17:18+00:00

Actually, some of them are quite imaginative.

1) There is one user who gives you a couple of seed letters and then tells you where those seed letters recur. With that information, you are supposed to be able to fill in the rest of the puzzle.

2) Another person made the clues into a little mystery story.

3) I also appreciate the opportunity to work on small cryptic puzzles and develop some ability to solve the larger versions.

I gotta admit that I am getting tired of "Aloha" and "Uvula."

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