More Thoughts on Flags

Under the skin we are all brothers, but flags make me your enemy… well, flags and your disgusting food and your RIDICULOUS language. ♦ Flying a flag at half-mast indicates a death… often the death of the guy whose job it was to hoist the flag to the top of the pole. ♦ I pledged […]

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Bulgaria Facts

The name Bulgaria is derived from the Proto-Turkic word bulģha meaning “to stir”; just one more reason not to let proto-Turks name anything important. ♣ The last tsar of Bulgaria was Simeon II, who was exiled in 1946. He came back as Prime Minister in 2001 but left in 2005 because they’d turned his bedroom […]

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The Grasshopper Who Vacationed

[This one is Deb’s fault… unless you like it, then it was ALL MY IDEA!!!] Many many years ago, just after the Age of Legends and right before the Age of Unbelievable Bullshit, a grasshopper was feeling overwhelmed. His day to day grind of eating tomato plants and scaring five year old girls was finally […]

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