It stems from a literal belief that white peoples descended from the Caucasus mountains after Noah’s ark

Thanks for writing this Dan--I hadn't considered the origin of the term. Picking "Decline to answer" from now on

A personal triumph is that I met the guy who wrote it, Bruce Vilanch. We both went to Ohio State, and worked for the student paper The Lantern (he was older). We were both invited to an event on campus.

Everyone else there regarded him as a WTF alien. I went over to him like a shot!

I also probably watched Star Wars that many times from late ‘77 to mid 1978. My folks wouldn’t take me up to Wilmington to the one theater 1st showing it, had to wait for it to get down to Newark. I remember that drought of anything new about Star Wars then too; somehow missed the Holiday Special

I don’t understand why anyone who needs to get to the West Wing or Oval Office would need signage on the building exterior to do so.

Eric always hated mayonnaise, but Miracle Whip was OK. He said mayo had too much “kereskerol” in it

Forty years since my junior year of college in Lancashire and I still remember saying “WTF is this” when seeing someone put brown sauce on their chips. Seriously traumatizing stuff for Dave the Yank