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July 29th, 2005
12:32 am - doonesbury
It would seem that ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) doonesbury has been suspended from Live Journal. How so, I ask? I was enjoying by daily dose of Trudeau. Otherwise, I might have to buy a newspaper...
In other news, tonight we went to have chicken wings with a friend who has just finished and sent off his dissertation. Six long years, and finally he can reward himself at Wing Nuts. (My goodness, who'd have thought the place had a website?) On the wall were polaroid photos of people who'd eaten 12 or more spicy wings at a single sitting. The wing nut "champ" had consumed 86 wings, in less than an hour. Our friend was a little more restrained, however, even after his dissertation-writing achievement. But he did afterwards ask that we move on to Duffin's Donuts.
Duffin's doesn't have a website, but it is mentioned in this news story, which features "Carl, David and Greg--a group of chain-smoking, leather-bomber-jacket-wearing middle-aged men who've been coming to Duffin's for years [. . . ]. They come to Duffin's for the coffee, the camaraderie and a place to smoke, sometimes spending as much as five hours a day there. None of them eats doughnuts, for health reasons." They were there this evening, I swear, next to another table of old guys speaking (I think) Portuguese.
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02:04 pm - Russian
I think it was ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) besskeloid who put me on to real_funny_lady, who posts cool photos and pictures on a regular basis.
Do you think that by reading comments such as the ones in response to this entry, I'll be able to learn Russian?
I take it for instance that "Класс!!!" is a signal of approbation. And what's the betting that "великолепно" means "beautiful"?
I remember Fred Jameson reporting TS Eliot's opinion that the best way to learn a foreign language was to read its poetry (without a dictionary, natch).
Hmmm.
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