Howard Waldrop, call your office, please.

By way of Popehat on the Twitter, NPR’s counterfactual series, “What If World War I Had Never Happened?

Do you think Sarajevo is full of assassins?” I can’t lie; this made me smile, as did “a very Austro-Hungarian problem” and “Is this how you greet visitors, by throwing bombs at them?”

(See also. Also, I have to admit to some curiosity; what kind of sandwich?)

Edited to add: Well. Well well well. Well.

Also, wouldn’t “Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich” be a great name for a band?

One Response to “Howard Waldrop, call your office, please.”

  1. guffaw says:

    If I remember correctly, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was so afraid of assassination that he had a number of body doubles traveling around in his stead!
    What kind of political climate must have existed…?

    My good friend Biff was born on June 28. I always make a sick joke in his honor. One year, I printed up a ‘birthday’ card with Gavrilo Princip’s picture on the front, proclaiming Happy Gavrilo Princip Day!
    Inside it stated “Happy Birthday – take a shot at having a good one!”

    gfa