They have Kenya listed as an Asian country.

For Ontario readers, Farm Boy’s store brand cereals are made in Canada.

No, they do – it’s just not a codified constitution like almost all other countries have.

Uncodified constitution

Proponents of the idea believe that a constitution that has evolved bit by bit over a long period of time and across a bunch of different charters and unwritten agreements/customs is stronger that one that’s done all in one shot. You’ll see the unflattering metaphor that “a tree is stronger than a weed”, which seems a bit unfair but it’s reasonable point – if not one that’s beyond argument or anything.

Commonwealth countries are politically conservative, small “c” and not big “C”, as the general attitude is “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, even if it’s objectively kind of stupid”. There was a good reason for every one of the decisions that led to today, don’t &^%$ with it, just in case.

The key word in “constitutional monarchy” is “constitutional”, not “monarchy”. The monarch must follow the parliament’s requests, and not doing so is unconstitutional. Parliament is sovereign, at least in all of the countries that derive their monarchy from the UK’s.

Outside of the UK there wouldn’t be a fight anyway: in all the Commonwealth countries (except the ones that have since gone fully republican), the monarch has a representative called “the governor general” who is selected by the Parliament and recommended to the monarch at which point see above. The monarch has to take the advice of who is to be their governor-general. Issues basically never get to the monarch for them to mess anything up. The loyal-to-his-country deputy gets first crack at everything the monarch does in theory and has no reason to go against Parliament. If somehow the g-g or the king did speak out, it’d be a legal mess but everyone would ignore them. Practically we’d either get ourselves a new monarch or just say to hell with it and become a republic.

To answer your specific question then, yes, it’s pro forma. The monarch’s role is to be the embodiment of all legislative, judicial, and executive power, in a fairly close analog to what the American Constitution is. But the Constitution can’t exercise any of those powers and the monarch can’t either. It’s just a historical oddity that they can walk and talk, unlike a piece of paper.

Nice find! They had me at “the Devil’s Balls”.

Actual footage of the ice spirits:

Commander Keen is probably the one that I liked the most that is also well known.

My personal favorite was Bass Class, which is weird because I’ve zero interest in real-life fishing, then or now.

The identification depends on how correct Jerome’s rescuers were in thinking his amputations were not completely healed and so were recent. Gamby showed up across the bay four years previous and was missing his legs then.

Yes, eventually?

Well, yes – in the 21st century women should be encouraged to enter traditionally male-dominated fields like excavation and mining.

Though the split happened because the Soviets thought they should be master of all Communist countries and the Chinese had different ideas on the topic.

Yes, the Diplomatic Revolution for one.

This sounds like something they’d name an Italian character in an old Bugs Bunny cartoon.

Spoken like a true burglar.

“Revolutionary Paris” had me thinking about this entirely the wrong way.

It’s the Daily Mail, so it’s not likely to be, you know…at all like this.

Good thing he didn’t throw his drinking problem overboard instead.

Fingers crossed it’s Thingumy and Bob.

Ganong makes Chicken Bones, which are a cinnamon candy. They’re mostly chocolate, though: Pal-o-Mine chocolate bars, Delecto Peanut Clusters, and they’re introducing a new one they bought out from an American manufacture: Sixlets, which look like chocolate M&M’s from the pictures and their website.

Prana makes a bunch of nut snacks like salted cashews and almonds.

It’s worth noting that “No one had ever traced such a track, as a modern navigator would do” is just wrong. Joseph B. Murdock was with the United States Coast Survey and an instructor at the US Naval Academy and he came up with San Salvador as the landing site at the turn of the 20th century. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison sailed up and down the US’ East Coast in a small boat just for funsies and so knew that kind of navigation as well as anyone; he came up with San Salvador too in the 1930s.