tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post2896266139419709376..comments2024-03-29T05:44:08.923-07:00Comments on Diary of a Fat Slob: Tooth troubleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-37406941091556692072021-09-08T03:23:18.136-07:002021-09-08T03:23:18.136-07:00That's also pretty neat. I was expecting she&#...That's also pretty neat. I was expecting she'd overhear an insult or a leering wisecrack, but I hadn't seen the ghost coming. Doug Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16075745451950217113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-80068885935441665702021-09-07T12:37:49.890-07:002021-09-07T12:37:49.890-07:00Did I ever tell you this? My niece Dorothy went to...Did I ever tell you this? My niece Dorothy went to school for quite a few years in a Chinese (Mandarin) Immersion School in San Francisco. By the time she was 10, she spoke pretty good Mandarin. She is whiter than fuck, physically - just a stereotypical white person with Irish ancestry on both sides.<br /><br />The family was once at a Chinese festival of some sort, and she went up to a food Captain Hampocketsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-55904547578196327052021-09-07T12:32:11.121-07:002021-09-07T12:32:11.121-07:00Pretty neat!Pretty neat!Captain Hampocketsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-31026525401880933692021-09-06T07:09:41.085-07:002021-09-06T07:09:41.085-07:00Both. Stephanie had a degree in Russian language, ...Both. Stephanie had a degree in Russian language, and spoke it fairly fluently.<br /><br />It came in handy at the movies! American flicks often have Russian bad guys, and we sometimes saw artsy movies imported from Russia. She couldn’t translate paragraphs of complicated dialogue on the fly, but she could always get the gist of something spoken in Russian, or any Eastern European language, sinceDoug Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16075745451950217113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-65109757171569636312021-09-05T13:17:05.050-07:002021-09-05T13:17:05.050-07:00Yoyr Ninotchka talk is stirring a possibly false m...Yoyr Ninotchka talk is stirring a possibly false memory - did Steph speak Russian, or am I nuts? Or both?Captain Hampocketsnoreply@blogger.com