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   leftwingpatriot said, 7 months ago

   “Some people call me Maurice because I speak of the pompatus of love.”
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   Linguist said, 7 months ago

   Bis Periskop !
   Darn thing keeps popping up everywhere .
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   dukedoug said, 7 months ago

   Man … I can’t even read the German today, much less understand it !!
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   dukedoug said, 7 months ago

   OK … Magnify working now … can read, still can’t understand !
   Where’s our trusty translator ?
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   KasparV said, 7 months ago

   Otto! Situation report.
   No sign of her, captain.
   Finally. Set a course for Minsk.
   Damn.
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   runar said, 7 months ago

   Otto! Situation report!
   No trace of her.
   Finally! Set a course for (Minst)
   Verdammt! (Shouldn’t need translation)

   I’m not sure what “Minst” is. Westminster, perhaps?

   Remember: Mit Romney? Nein! Ohne Romney!
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   wilburpan said, 7 months ago

   “Minst” is actually Minsk. The last letter is a “k”, which looks a lot like a “t” in the Fraktur font.
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   SlyMongoose said, 7 months ago

   Thanks, runar!
   Say… we should let these U-boaters go. They might pop up in the fabled NW Passage!
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   runar said, 7 months ago

   @wilburpan

   Thanks for that.

   I have a friend in Minsk,
   Who has a friend in Pinsk,
   Whose friend in Omsk
   Has friend in Tomsk
   With friend in Akmolinsk.
   His friend in Alexandrovsk
   Has friend in Petropavlovsk,
   Whose friend somehow
   Is solving now
   The problem in Dnepropetrovsk.

   And when his work is done -
   Ha ha! – begins the fun.
   From Dnepropetrovsk
   To Petropavlovsk,
   By way of Iliysk,
   And Novorossiysk,
   To Alexandrovsk to Akmolinsk
   To Tomsk to Omsk
   To Pinsk to Minsk
   To me the news will run,
   Yes, to me the news will run!

   — Tom Lehrer, Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
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    Trickle Down said, 7 months ago

    To Minsk, or not to Minsk: That is the question.
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    corzak said, 7 months ago

    It’ll be hard to get to Minsk, which is about 300 miles from the Baltic Sea.
    
    But they managed to get their U-Boat into lemonade pitcher in Windsor, so . . .
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    SUSAN NEWMAN said, 7 months ago

    Looks like a tiny sub with a huge periscope.
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    wynot said, 7 months ago

    @Trickle Down

    !!!!! Love your avatar
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    rpstrong said, 7 months ago

    @runar

    I was going to say all that, but it looks like you published first.
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    JettaJ said, 7 months ago

    So happy to know that I am not the only person on earth who remembers Tom Lehrer with gratitude and glee.
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