Well, certainly don't take MY word for it.

E: It was the French that killed the girl [Joan of Arc], right, Daddy?

Me: Uh, I'm pretty sure it was the English.

E {definitively now}: It was the French.

I wasn't talking to you.

Me {to V}: The congressman who beat up the abolitionist on the floor of the Senate — wasn't he from South Carolina?

C: You mean Preston Brooks? He was.

It's as good a theory as any.

P: "I've never been especially attracted to redheads. I think it might be because I have a brother who's a redhead."

Fair point.

C {caught red-handed wrestling with P}: Why is P not in juvie? I thought you said fighting is a crime when it's not in self-defense.