Count Cavour's policies... Blood & Iron and Realpolitik, right?  And Realpolitik is doing whatever it takes to make your country stronger, even if it means being hated, screwing over alliances and treaties, and killing everyone (except the Pope.  They didn't kill Pope Pius--or even kick him out!--which is why there's this thing called Vatican City ( Read more... )

Ryan Stiles/Colin Mochrie
Greg Proops/Wayne Brady
Brad Sherwood/Steven Frost

Three pairings I was thinking about having in a story I'm trying to write (it'd have multiple chapters).  Steven Frost was from the UK show; he had white hair and was balding but had really black and bushy eyebrows?  That's the one I was uncertain about, I don't think there's ( Read more... )