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Ellis Weiner's avatar

I love the smoothly-inserted "I'm not making this up." Copy that to clipboard; you (all of us) will be using it a lot in the coming surreal times. Happy hols and New Year, Yas.

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Yastreblyansky's avatar

Back at you! We'll all be doing our best, I'm sure.

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Bern's avatar

Sadly, I will have to decline, as my stock in trade is up-making stuff. Oh, there may come a time when certain...facts...insist upon truth-sidling, but til then – Fact-free Since 1983!

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Bern's avatar

Icons! Of adelphopoiesis!

I really like that illustration – the expressions, the directions of the gazes, the light...

Neither of those guys woulda farted around with spindly trees covered with trinkets and candles (fire brigades LOVED the old days!)...

But I bet they were fun around the punch bowl.

Let us be appeased by the insight that Mussolini probly shat himself when he realized he was being sprung from prison by Otto Skorzeny.

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Cheez Whiz's avatar

That "of Bacchus" aside was pure Buckley fanfic. The kind of pusedo-intellectual reference thwt no one would bother to chase down, because why would you waste your time whether you agreed with that gibberish or not. I read that post which seemed to have no point beyond pimping his book on the children of dictators, which I'd guess the point of as being "they're just folks like us".

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