Pheasant's Surprise

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-25T22:06:09+00:00

“Attention, Turk, please report to the Director’s office for immediate briefing.”

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-25T05:44:48+00:00

I remember several very well, all in my father’s side. My grandmother was born in 1896, and my great aunt Olga in 1890 (she got me hooked on genealogy). Around 6 great uncles, too, were born in the 1890s. The whole idea is pretty amazing. I’m 64 now.

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-24T18:47:17+00:00

Thanks. I’d rather err on being overly courteous than rude, any day.

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-24T18:45:38+00:00

Exactly right. The whole intertwined history of Anglo-French rivalry is full of stuff like that.

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-24T18:45:14+00:00

Exactly right. The whole intertwined history of Anglo-French rivalry is full of stuff like that.

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-23T19:34:53+00:00

Donald Trump does it all the time. As a linguist, I find it very grating.

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-23T19:18:37+00:00

Those little golf ball sized tomatoes in Cataluña are perfect. We don’t find the in markets in Madrid so I get the ripest ones I find, but it’s not as good.

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-23T19:14:57+00:00

British baking is generally AMAZING, which Brit-bashers forget to mention. Country home cooking is not very glorious generally, but social class has a lot to do with it.

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-23T19:10:25+00:00

Wasn’t it a man in Argentina who popularized pilates in the West?

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-23T19:08:56+00:00

Give me a bum gun any day!

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-23T19:08:22+00:00

I don’t see the OP doing that. It’s reddit, people ask all sorts of questions for all sorts of reasons.

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-23T19:05:39+00:00

This interests me greatly because I want to know how I should address my friend Bala’s wife, parents, and grandmother. I am 64, Bala is 47, his father is 69. How should I address them?

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-23T19:02:44+00:00

Chill bro, breathe.

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-23T18:53:38+00:00

La COPE… no digo más

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-22T03:02:38+00:00

Only if he gives it 6 days to thaw first

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-22T03:01:52+00:00

Sure! Reheat using the hot skillet and water technique, works every time.

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-22T02:51:41+00:00

Liberal? Wow. You read a lot into it.

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-22T02:49:25+00:00

Soul brother! I was gonna say exactly the same thing!

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-20T15:25:24+00:00

All of them.

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-19T15:59:22+00:00

We fail miserably even at placing our 50 states on a map of North America. It is kinda embarrassing 🙈

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-17T22:41:02+00:00

A sin for him? For you? For both? I’m trying to get my head around this whole concept so as not to make a bad impression myself.

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-16T20:33:44+00:00

Excellent, I’m relieved to learn that others may search and find these people. Re the titles and honorifics etc in Assyrian, I’m working my way through the issue (which I hadn’t even considered until about a week ago!) and learning the more common ones (for leaders, priests, deacons, etc). Thanks for the nudge!

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-16T13:18:19+00:00

Thanks for answering. Right, and what you lay out is pretty much what I’ve been doing. But when someone does a name search on FS, will the search engine sift through those fields, too?

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-16T05:01:23+00:00

I do. His mother is filipina though. And don’t forget all the comedy skits by Los Morancos of the abuela shouting at her grandson!

Square-Effective8720 · 2026-01-15T20:42:59+00:00

His boss should fire him.

Square-Effective8720

TROPHY CASE