To die laughing...now that is a GRAND way to go!

Styrbjorn was reputed to have died laughing...a spear took him in the throat as he threw back his head in laughter at the sight of the opposing forces during a battle between 2 Viking armies. He was the greatest warrior of his time, feared by all, and his death came very suddenly and unexpectedly. It was truly the end of an era when he died.

American Indians = Native Americans = Amerindians = whatever-the-hell-else you want to call the original people of the Americas.

Everybody, including Buffy Sainte-Marie, called them "Indians" back in the 60's. Darned right I can get away with it. These names change just like clothing styles and almost as often, and it doesn't mean a darned thing which one somebody chooses to use. The meaning is obvious.

"Native American" is like "Afro-American". It will have its brief day of political correctness and then be replaced by some other term that supposedly offends no one.

- LH