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Even in times like these you have to have some fun (Original Post) brokephibroke Mar 2020 OP
And forbidding any Klan meetings packman Mar 2020 #1
Good one! MLAA Mar 2020 #3
LOFL !!! uponit7771 Mar 2020 #6
That...doesn't not sound like fun. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2020 #2
Even better, tell them safeinOhio Mar 2020 #4
Pushkin wrote a little tragedy, A feast in time of plague. Igel Mar 2020 #5

Igel

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5. Pushkin wrote a little tragedy, A feast in time of plague.
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 12:08 PM
Mar 2020

(Pir vo vremya chumy, dlia goroviashchikh po-russki.)

Seems appropriate to link to it. No opinion as to the translation.

https://www.oocities.org/~dreznin/Plague/text.html

(And before somebody says, "Ick. Russian!" keep in mind his great-grandfather was given to Peter the Great by the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, taken as a slave from most likely somewhere in central Africa.)

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