oliver cromwell

soooo... i just got a late night phone call from my best friend requesting me to tell her step-dad about how awful oliver cromwell was. apparently in a drunken discussion with her large extended family cromwell came up as a topic, and her step-dad had sided with him. no one else in the room agreed with him. and yet my friend needed me to add to the number of people against him. i asked her if he had slept through all of the museums and churches and castles when he had visited ireland, because a lot of them included a small display about how cromwell killed a lot of people, burnt down a lot of buildings, and stole a lot of property. she subsequently decided that i needed to tell him myself. when her step-dad got on the phone, i asked him why he liked oliver cromwell. his response, "i don't like cromwell. well.... i like the name." hahaha well... that ended that argument. i'm sure he was just pressing my friend's buttons. and i'm sure her mom with say something about calling me and interrupting my evening with ridiculousness. but hey, it gave me something to write about.