For Marilyn Monroe’s 100th birthday, which was just a few days ago:
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Open thread 6/5/2026 — 5 Comments
The use of the spelling Türkiye which has emerged only in the last year or so is one of those little things about political correctness that really irks me. Who made the decision and how did it get propagated throughout our various media? What makes Turkey so special that we now are supposed to use that country’s own spelling in an English-speaking country? We don’t say or write Deutschland, Sverige, Hellas or even Italia or España. We don’t use the umlaut in English for chrissakes.
I saw a photo of Marilyn taken in 1948 when she was 22, before she became a blonde. The resemblance between the Marilyn photo and wedding pictures of my aunt at age 21 in 1948 were uncanny. I later asked my cousin, her daughter, about her mother’s resemblance to 1948 Marilyn. My cousin replied that she had also seen the resemblance.
Like Marilyn, my aunt died in the 1960s in tragic circumstances, before turning 40. My cousin said that beauty was no guarantee of a happy life.
I saw a Marilyn movie in the 1990s—Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?. She had some talent as a comedienne. Not just a dumb blonde. But would Arthur Miller have married a dumb blonde? Married to perhaps the most prominent playwright and ballplayer of that generation—reminds me of Alma. (You can work Tom Lehrer into so many things. 🙂 )
Prominent authors such as Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, and Gloria Steinem, have written accounts of Marilyn’s life.
We don’t use the umlaut in English for chrissakes.
Mötley Crüe vehemently disagrees.
Just call ’em gobblers, especially Cenk and Piker
I’m not sure how to produce the umlaut in casual typing on my Mac, so it will be Turkiye at the most — although as I typed that, I see auto-correct has now been programmed to produce it with the umlaut. I overrode it.
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The use of the spelling Türkiye which has emerged only in the last year or so is one of those little things about political correctness that really irks me. Who made the decision and how did it get propagated throughout our various media? What makes Turkey so special that we now are supposed to use that country’s own spelling in an English-speaking country? We don’t say or write Deutschland, Sverige, Hellas or even Italia or España. We don’t use the umlaut in English for chrissakes.
I saw a photo of Marilyn taken in 1948 when she was 22, before she became a blonde. The resemblance between the Marilyn photo and wedding pictures of my aunt at age 21 in 1948 were uncanny. I later asked my cousin, her daughter, about her mother’s resemblance to 1948 Marilyn. My cousin replied that she had also seen the resemblance.
Like Marilyn, my aunt died in the 1960s in tragic circumstances, before turning 40. My cousin said that beauty was no guarantee of a happy life.
I saw a Marilyn movie in the 1990s—Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?. She had some talent as a comedienne. Not just a dumb blonde. But would Arthur Miller have married a dumb blonde? Married to perhaps the most prominent playwright and ballplayer of that generation—reminds me of Alma. (You can work Tom Lehrer into so many things. 🙂 )
Prominent authors such as Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, and Gloria Steinem, have written accounts of Marilyn’s life.
We don’t use the umlaut in English for chrissakes.
Mötley Crüe vehemently disagrees.
Just call ’em gobblers, especially Cenk and Piker
I’m not sure how to produce the umlaut in casual typing on my Mac, so it will be Turkiye at the most — although as I typed that, I see auto-correct has now been programmed to produce it with the umlaut. I overrode it.