I'll (hopefully) never have the chance to do this again!

First, by a great coincidence, I happened to check the board just as it came back up. I trust I’ll never have the opportunity to post in an empty forum ever again so I wanted to take advantage of it. Besides, there is something I’ve actually wanted to post for some time.

Dex’s staff report on Yiddish gave me a good laugh. http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/myiddish.html

Imagine the look on the faces of the German civilians when the conquering Americans arrive – speaking Yiddish!

Oy, gevalt!;j

A minor hijack: I have, on occasion, seen this forum go “empty” (no threads back to the “show threads since” limit) due to purely “natural” causes, before: That is to say, the Staff Reports for a few days just happened to not particularly spark much interest. Still not something to hope for, of course, but not nearly as dire as the present situation.