Grammas in Their Babushkas Shaking Their Umbrellas

Hello. I'm home and ought to be in bed, but I'm here instead.

Is the odoriferousness from the fartulance cleared away? Or was that the termite bomb?

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Palpatine #396: ...Gotta say, one of the most surprising events of my life was the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact....

I'll always remember a live feed -- CNN, I think -- of Russian tanks, in Moscow -- these young boys sitting atop the tanks, these little ol' grammas in their babushkas shaking their umbrellas and yelling at them. The boys almost wanly smiling. No Tiannamen Square was going to happen in that scenario. And no translation needed. It was clearly over.

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