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We make make no sense to no one, ourselves no, never will, don't want to. We happiest, friendliest charmingest friends. One does well not to move us to anger.
"I Kazhakh!"
In English: "I am a Kazakhstani!"
But few English speakers have a clue who the Kazakhs are, or where Kazakhstan is located. More commonly: "I am a Cossack!"
For example, twice now the photo-essays of a daring young Ukrainian women, who figured out that, provided she ride at the crests of paved roads, the now-abandoned region around the melted-down, very nearly DETONATED Chernobyl Graphite-Moderated, Water-Cooled Nuclear Reactor, is actually perfectly safe to tool around through on her velocipede.
(Actually a Rocketbike. :-)
Her second Slashdotting resulted from her posting on her site:
"Who are these Slashdot people? They descend on my site like Cossacks!"
While a born and raised American citizen, my direct ancestors being British, Dutch, Scottish and French...
Anyone who knows me at all well, even just by reputation, especially those who know me through my writing - the Pen being Mightier Than the Sword you see -...
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In English: "I am a Kazakhstani!"
But few English speakers have a clue who the Kazakhs are, or where Kazakhstan is located. More commonly: "I am a Cossack!"
For example, twice now the photo-essays of a daring young Ukrainian women, who figured out that, provided she ride at the crests of paved roads, the now-abandoned region around the melted-down, very nearly DETONATED Chernobyl Graphite-Moderated, Water-Cooled Nuclear Reactor, is actually perfectly safe to tool around through on her velocipede.
(Actually a Rocketbike. :-)
Her second Slashdotting resulted from her posting on her site:
"Who are these Slashdot people? They descend on my site like Cossacks!"
While a born and raised American citizen, my direct ancestors being British, Dutch, Scottish and French...
Anyone who knows me at all well, even just by reputation, especially those who know me through my writing - the Pen being Mightier Than the Sword you see -...
... know that...
I AM JUST LIKE THAT!