OMG, fingers AND toes crossed

You sure you aren’t talking about the Minnesota Twins? or maybe BOTH?

So you’re saying it’s “no good”?

Not bad for someone who got beaten up a lot as a child, eh?

I don’t pretend to understand this but I love it

Not enough in Minneapolis, either

Two’s company, three’s a crowd

a.k.a. “Happy Birthday, Mr. President: Trump Edition”

Please tell me that a “Steam Whistle” involves foreplay of some sort.

I read your initial post too quickly. Sounds like we still probably disagree on a lot but you are at least trying to have a sensible dialogue, and that should be welcomed.

Hello, StalinBot™!

First:

‘Cruel’ has the connotation the pain is inflicted mostly for enjoyment, and not because it’s seen as a necessary.means to an end...

This is the most Russian thing I’ve ever heard.

You need to get immersed in a story over its entire course. You can’t just jump into an issue and come up to speed on the actors and the implications. The odds are pretty good that something will arise later on for which he has no intelligence basis for helping him work through it.

No, but they do have a lock on a very special kind of obnoxious fan.

As a human being with functioning eyes and brain

Charlie Parker: “If God made anything better than heroin, he kept it to himself.”

Tom?