I was Today years old when I learned that what I thought was the German word “Stomptisch“, which I inferred was a meet-up where you tell funny stories around a table and slap it in laughter, is actually “Stammtisch“, meaning the table for the regulars of the biergarten, tavern, or restaurant. That’s it. That’s all …
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Glasnost
Ok, it’s confession time. For the past thirty years, I’ve secretly been a KGB Operative (Keep Grabbing Butts). I get my orders via radio communication. I’ve been working to disrupt the social order and keep everybody guessing. I didn’t want to tell you, but this has been going on so long, and I want out …
In Which the Fool Admits Defeat on the Fields of Dreams
So I’ve come to an internal agreement. Actually, it’s more like an admission of defeat. Either that, or it’s a sudden ability to see that the easist path has been plainly in front of me the whole time. Call it what you want, but I ain’t happy about it. See, for the past eleventy-thousand years, …
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