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1. about 12 hours ago on Kliban's Cats

   and everyone else, too – unless that’s an inside joke

2. about 13 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   that’s what I thought, too, til just now when wnbresn corrected me

3. about 13 hours ago on Kliban's Cats

   Yes! You’d want the back end of the qat included, tho

4. about 15 hours ago on The Knight Life

   With arteries like oil-transfer pipes

5. about 16 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   Oh, I didn’t know that. I guess I’ve not been following as closely as I’d thought

6. about 16 hours ago on The Knight Life

   It could easily have changed its name meanwhile, but “Radler” wasn’t the name we’d ask for “up de waterkant” 60 years ago.

   Is Radler a brand name? Because it sounds like it’s sold in the same way as what we drank.

   We’d buy it bottled in a little carrier if we planned to spend the day on the beach at Cuxhaven. And buy bottles or paper cups-full mixed on the spot at the kiosk while waiting for the Straßenbahn to show up and carry us into town.

7. about 17 hours ago on The Knight Life

   You’ve been a long time from your Russian classes :-) The Kyrillic alphabet has chars for both the S and V sounds, they just look like Latin C and B, whence “квасс”

8. about 17 hours ago on Kliban's Cats

   He shouldn’t be playing with the moon, he should be playing fiddle while the cow jumps over the moon

9. about 17 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   Not really summoning – he lives in that outfall pipe, or perhaps in his saucer in the outfall pipe

10. 1 day ago on The Knight Life

    Well, “Bier mit Brause” (beer with barely-sweetened fizzy lemonade) has been a summertime thing in North Germany forever. It has a special name, but I can’t remember it.

    And next spring, if I’ve the time, I’m going to buy a carboy (or perhaps only a couple wire-bail 5L jars) and make some “Kvass” (квасor квасс; I’ve seen it written both ways). It’s very refreshing on a hot day, tho you have to get past the fact that it looks like someone has already drunk it once