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https://archive.is/Ubbfx https://archive.is/Ubbfx i recall a soviet movie whose title was something like “King and Cartman” but i can somehow neither find it n

https://archive.is/Ubbfx https://archive.is/Ubbfx i recall a soviet movie whose title was something like “King and Cartman” but i can somehow neither find it nor recall the romantic era poem that it was based on

gradschoolfail 2y ago
https://archive.is/QrowT https://archive.is/QrowT Once upon a time in Odessa, Schiller or Hoelderlin might have been the rage.. ? (You might have missed that Sir William above hacked (together) the gentlemen’s dues that gate-kept riffraff)
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  had missed it, thx. Sir William, had he been in Uncle Sam's service, would've been a "mustang": the DoD equivalent of a brumby (and apparently uncommon —to the point of uniqueness?— in His Majesty's service).
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    Unlike mustangs, he never had any command. Whether this was general policy[0] or specifically due to his Achilles' Heel[1] (the dutch say "now the ape['s arm] comes out of the cuffs") is difficult to discern from a single article, however. Lagniappe: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_eastwest.htm https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_eastwest.htm > And thou must make a trooper tough and hack thy way to power / Belike they will raise thee to Ressaldar when I am hanged in Peshawur! [0] compare COL Benjamin Davis'[2] command of the 51 FIW (as it was then) in 1950. [1] I'd thought the unorthodox baton grasp was what you'd meant to convey with that pic... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_O._Davis_Jr.#Creator_of_the_Davis_Line/Median_line_on_Taiwan_Strait https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_O._Davis_Jr.#Creator_...
    - gradschoolfail 2y ago
      [1] Certainly.. this part of the photoop was deeply unappealing to the recovering Victorians..? did you notice he was more of a cunning linguist, having had to fall back on his translation skills more than once in his career? (having first signed on as a cavalryman)
      - 082349872349872 2y ago
        The lancers took a cavalier view of his age! Yes, he rivals Kipling's[0] Kim[1] for south asian languages ... and exceeded him in literacy. [0] Did Kipling delve into early pair programming advice? > > I'd fly him with a make-hawk. He's in yarak [1] any link to EES' Kimball Kinnison?
      - 082349872349872 2y ago
        just got through the credits for BiK; Urgant's father plays in it — small world. Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njHNHbK9jDI&t=75s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njHNHbK9jDI&t=75s EDIT: well, the cops are obviously not Starovery; I was a little disappointed that Ivan Grozny (when with Shurik) was not obviously one.
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  Pace Seibel, one of my conspiracy theories is that the "Smuglyanka Moldavanka" was not moldavian, but from the Moldavanka neighbourhood of Odesa (as he is now). Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSc3fVBjYks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSc3fVBjYks

gradschoolfail 2y ago

https://archive.is/QrowT https://archive.is/QrowT Once upon a time in Odessa, Schiller or Hoelderlin might have been the rage.. ? (You might have missed that Sir William above hacked (together) the gentlemen’s dues that gate-kept riffraff)

082349872349872 2y ago
had missed it, thx. Sir William, had he been in Uncle Sam's service, would've been a "mustang": the DoD equivalent of a brumby (and apparently uncommon —to the point of uniqueness?— in His Majesty's service).
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  Unlike mustangs, he never had any command. Whether this was general policy[0] or specifically due to his Achilles' Heel[1] (the dutch say "now the ape['s arm] comes out of the cuffs") is difficult to discern from a single article, however. Lagniappe: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_eastwest.htm https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_eastwest.htm > And thou must make a trooper tough and hack thy way to power / Belike they will raise thee to Ressaldar when I am hanged in Peshawur! [0] compare COL Benjamin Davis'[2] command of the 51 FIW (as it was then) in 1950. [1] I'd thought the unorthodox baton grasp was what you'd meant to convey with that pic... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_O._Davis_Jr.#Creator_of_the_Davis_Line/Median_line_on_Taiwan_Strait https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_O._Davis_Jr.#Creator_...
  - gradschoolfail 2y ago
    [1] Certainly.. this part of the photoop was deeply unappealing to the recovering Victorians..? did you notice he was more of a cunning linguist, having had to fall back on his translation skills more than once in his career? (having first signed on as a cavalryman)
    - 082349872349872 2y ago
      The lancers took a cavalier view of his age! Yes, he rivals Kipling's[0] Kim[1] for south asian languages ... and exceeded him in literacy. [0] Did Kipling delve into early pair programming advice? > > I'd fly him with a make-hawk. He's in yarak [1] any link to EES' Kimball Kinnison?
    - 082349872349872 2y ago
      just got through the credits for BiK; Urgant's father plays in it — small world. Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njHNHbK9jDI&t=75s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njHNHbK9jDI&t=75s EDIT: well, the cops are obviously not Starovery; I was a little disappointed that Ivan Grozny (when with Shurik) was not obviously one.
082349872349872 2y ago
Pace Seibel, one of my conspiracy theories is that the "Smuglyanka Moldavanka" was not moldavian, but from the Moldavanka neighbourhood of Odesa (as he is now). Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSc3fVBjYks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSc3fVBjYks