Saturday’s Useless Trivia 2/21/09
In China, Elvis Presley is known as Mao Wang, which translates as Cat King, or the King of Cats. (H/t to Mark G., currently in southern China, for this info.)
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The Tattlesnake The Suicide Kings of the GOP Edition
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