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They have big shoes?

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Moluccan roll!

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We had a hedge back home in the suburbs over which I never could see

(what is with british hedges? clash and eddie izzard and monty python??)

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i don't really get the german connection, but good to know racism is ecumenical.

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"with all the strength in my heart and passion as a descendant of germans!!”

Wow ... not even the usual code words here. I bet she has a stiletto in one of her clunky black shoes.

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Anything written in German, over the iron gate?

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What's with all the walruses today?

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She quit half-way through her ESL class.

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But I thought he chose the music for the horse to prance and dance to. Although maybe Anthrax wasn't the best choice.

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This conversation is hard to follow. How did we get back to Polack jokes?

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Terry:

Connect the dots...

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The slogan of a re-united Germany? "Let's make in one of out three."

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Bacardi is transplanted Cuban rum. Ron del Barrilito is the real PR shit. I have a bottle I bought down in St. Thomas in '72. I'm saving it for my 65th birthday.

We drank the Mount Gay Sugar Cane at my "Pirate Looks at 40."

[Yes, I know hard liquor doesn't age in the bottle. It doesn't get any worse, either.]

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When I worked as a deck hand on the Water Isle ferry, as we approached town I would tell the hotel guests "Hey - I'll show you the 'pot factory.'"

We'd come around the point and there, in the middle of Charlotte Amalie, was the rum distillery smokestack painted with "POTT."

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That tweet really made me wonder if she was attempting satire. My hopes are dashed yet again.

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"Double banana" is on her mind. And Kenyan guys.

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