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2016-08-03

Posted by Fred 2016-08-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Okay then, ballet, chess, ICBMz, Vladamir Nabokov and Tolstoy. Other than that what have they done for us lately?

Posted by Shipman 2016-08-03 05:00|| 2016-08-03 05:00|| Front Page Top

#2 They gave us $35M. Whoops, wait a minute that was not us as in we the people but it was linked to the Democrat Party and illegal. Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta sat on the board of a small energy company alongside Russian officials that received $35 million from a Putin-connected Russian government fund, a relationship Podesta failed to fully disclose on his federal financial disclosures as required by law.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-08-03 07:22|| 2016-08-03 07:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Just for historical accuracy, the Persians gave us chess.

Posted by Pappy 2016-08-03 08:21|| 2016-08-03 08:21|| Front Page Top

#4 More likely India ... but quickly spread to Persia from there.

Although, the Russians do seem pretty adept at it ...

Posted by ExtremeModerate 2016-08-03 09:10|| 2016-08-03 09:10|| Front Page Top

#5 14-15 year old Bolshoi students the year before I was born. I like older women, but not that much older...

Posted by M. Murcek 2016-08-03 09:26|| 2016-08-03 09:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Vodka, Shipman. Don't forget the vodka. And those women are hot.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-08-03 10:14|| 2016-08-03 10:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't forget Yakov Smirnoff and classic Wendy's commercial.

Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-08-03 12:07|| 2016-08-03 12:07|| Front Page Top

#8 I have found persons from Iran; when asked where they are from, invariably say Persia.

Posted by Dale 2016-08-03 14:27|| 2016-08-03 14:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes SFF, but they gave up to quickly, if they had persevered we would have launched the Manned Orbiting Lab and tested DynaSoar, they did both countries a disservice. :(

We, or they would have been on Mars by now. Stupid EmOhOhEn, that spelled trouble.

Posted by Shipman 2016-08-03 14:32|| 2016-08-03 14:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Second Dale's comment; dance instructor's Spousal Unit is Persian; her brother was murdered for 'crimes' against the former regime.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2016-08-03 14:32|| 2016-08-03 14:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Some pretty decent piano players and painters. And that gulag dude.

Posted by One Eyed Jeatch6189 2016-08-03 14:37|| 2016-08-03 14:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Old grouches grow grumbly and whiskery,
Though why this is so is a mystery.
They cuss, disrespect us,
And try to direct us,
Based solely on something called "history."

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-08-03 14:40|| 2016-08-03 14:40|| Front Page Top

#13 Obama and Merkel, Chagalling:
He buoyantly smirking (enthralling!),
She stolidly hauling
But awkwardly sprawling
And stalling and falling... appalling.

Meh. Please to forgive absence of goat and fiddling.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-08-03 14:48|| 2016-08-03 14:48|| Front Page Top

#14 when asked where they are from, invariably say Persia.

Fascinating. When I was a child, the Jews who'd fled that part of the world and ended up in Buffalo (French-speaking Montreal, their previous stop, was too cold), referred to themselves as Persian Jews. But a number of non-Jews who'd escaped the Ayatollahs haughtily informed me they were not Persians but Iranian. Have they now changed their minds for some reason?

All is forgiven for the sake of the verb and the image, Zenobia F. Poems go where they must, not where we want them to, even limericks.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-08-03 15:00|| 2016-08-03 15:00|| Front Page Top

#15 Please to forgive absence of goat and fiddling

No apolly wollies! Even without caprine collusion, it was a festival of trans-gerundism. Which I'm sure is a word.

Posted by SteveS 2016-08-03 15:41|| 2016-08-03 15:41|| Front Page Top

#16 From LSU on an excursion
To spread Ayatollan subversion:
Iranian scholars.
Orleanian hollers,
"Say, cap, is that Chevrolet Persian?"

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-08-03 16:34|| 2016-08-03 16:34|| Front Page Top

#17 Damn Persians could'nt handle a 454. Ever notice how few Persians are in NASCAR? Ever wonder why the Scuderia never signed a Persian driver? It's the lack of the extra ankle bone, it gives them cleverness and vicious guile, but precludes them from serious heel and toe work.

Posted by Shipman 2016-08-03 17:49|| 2016-08-03 17:49|| Front Page Top

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