This is one of my favorite Reader games, and I can’t believe I haven’t run this in so long.
Here’s the setup. It’s called HANG THE SOCIALIST, and starts with the well-known Hanging Tree:
Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to put a name to each number. Your list ought to be in order of preference. (I know, only 15? Deal.)
Have at it in Comments.
So, to clear our heads, a little off-beat mirth:
Menage à trois — a French term, after all:
And in the same vein:
And while we’re in that territory, so to speak, some offerings from Frederic Leighton:
The last is not by Frederic Leighton. But run off to work, anyway.
Here we go, into the week again:
So let’s get really painful.
This reminds me of the range where I used to shoot, until the pre-adolescent range safety Nazis got a little too much:
Time for a Modern Classic:
And finally, speaking of furrin womens…
Here’s what “pulling the train” means on Lesbos:
From Germany:
…and France:
Now head back off to your job…
I haven’t had much to say about the whole Russia / Ukraine thing because I’m somewhat ambivalent about the whole business.
On the one hand, yes, Vladimir Putin is a megalomaniac Russian bastard like so many of his political predecessors (Lenin, Stalin, Peter the Great etc.), and Russians themselves are a bunch of assholes (see: Russian oligarchs, Russian mafia, Russian hackers, Russian corruption etc.).
Unfortunately, the Ukrainians are not exactly little angels themselves. While they lack the global power of Russia, Ukraine is just as corrupt as their next-door neighbor, as shown with their dealings with our very own Biden criminal enterprise, to name but one example of their bastardy.
In other words, if Russia is the #1 Asshole in this area of the world, Ukraine is very definitely #1a.
Hence the Kissinger Statement, first spoken about the Iran / Iraq War of the 1980s: “It’s a pity there has to be a winner.”
I’m not saying that the Ukrainians shouldn’t resist Putin’s invasion with might and main and kill as many Russians as possible; I’m just saying that we should reserve our sympathy for Russia’s next target, e.g. the Finns, who definitively do not deserve the Ukrainian treatment.
I always laugh when I see someone’s normal reaction to a pic like this:
“Ooooh,” they coo, “that looks so relaxing.”
Really?
If you have that reaction, then you’ve never actually been in one. Getting into it is fraught with danger — it usually takes three or four attempts the first time — and if you just jump into the thing, there’s always the chance that the whole apparatus will detach itself from the ceiling or beam and you’ll come crashing to the floor.
Once you’re in, assuming you eventually manage it, there are still more dangers. You can’t roll over, because the balance changes and you’ll be swinging around until motion sickness sets in. Basically, all you can do is read or sleep. Good luck trying to reach for a drink if you get thirsty, because most likely you’ll either knock the side table over or spill the icy beverage all over yourself, or both.
I know; you’re thinking about sex with your squeeze in that thing, aren’t you?
And speaking of “some tart”…
