"Twilight" star related to mass-murderer

Or so he'd like to think

June 24, 2010 at 1:42PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Oh, brother:

Oh, drat; our cut-and-paste function dropped the name of the website that came up with this incredible connection. But apparently it has to do with Pattinson's connection to a British royal family, in the same sense that I am related to Nelson Mandela because all humans came from Africa. It gets better:

Except for one small detail: despite the beliefs of lonesome goth teens who think drinking blood is romantic and probably consistent with being a vegan , there are no vampires, and Vlad wasn't a vampire. He was a brutal ruler who fought the Ottomans and stuck heads on poles to make a point. His own head ended up on a pole when he was killed in battle. He did not come back to life and float through windows and act romantically tragic about being perfect and immortal. Sorry.

Also, Pokemon are not real. But they could be! my daughter used to say a few years ago. I couldn't prove her wrong, but we have to go with empirical evidence.

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