He went to St. Petersburg four times???
Neither my wife (who speaks French) or I can figure that is other than some kind of a pun. Of course I meant you can do whatever in a church, but in Russia is only “counts” if done by the government.
As of 2011. After being married, I did return to NY and went back to St. Petersburg for three years. I left in 2015 when it was really dicey to be a foreigner. I like(d) St. Petersburg. Built out of swamps (like the Meadowlands where the Giants/Jets play) as a Versailles that looks to the West by Peter the Great (but the city was named after the apostle), who loved Western Europe.
He was going to St. Ives but he kept missing the left turn at Albuquerque.
Had you seen it was a time for a change?
Love that line from Bugs Bunny (I believe Daffy used it too).
Another joke might be I meant to go to the one in Florida (not named for the apostle) yet the airport is Tampa (TPA). St. Petersburg, Russia is LED because they love Led Zeppelin. Either that or it was once called Leningrad for some odd reason.
Trivia: The line in “West End Girls” by the Pet Shop Boys:
In every city in every nation, from Lake Geneva to the Finland Station
is about Lenin (more or less as the Germans desired in 1917) returning from exile to Finland Station, Petrograd? (they never quite liked the -burg - it’s German) to start the Russian Revolution? When I was there, there was a statue of Lenin outside Finland Station (the terminus from Finland) though ironically he’s fallen out of favor and I’ve no idea where you can go from Finland Station nowadays.
Yes, sorry it is not so evident as I thought: I took the oposition “civil” as in state aproved and organized vs. religious and changed it to civil as in civilian vs. military. It works fine in Spanish and almost in German, seems it is not obvious in English. Aw, never mind, the joke’s on me.
I met a man going to St Petersberg who had four wives…
Pretty much what we figured. I asked my wife as like I said she speaks French and I was unsure if I was missing an obvious reference. So all good. “civil” is a stupid word anyways.
And I don’t need your civil war
It feeds the rich, while it buries the poor
Your power-hungry, sellin’ soldiers in a human grocery store
Ain’t that fresh?
I don’t need your civil war
Ooh, no, no, no, no, no, no
Guns & Roses
And almost an exact century later, Putin returned the favor by unleashing Trump to start another American Revolution.
I was there for the taking of Crimea - yet that made absolute military sense as the USA or UK was certainly thinking, “Wouldn’t is suck for the Russians if we took their most important port?” and besides, Crimea was given “back” to Ukraine by a drunken Kruschev (from Ukraine) and Sevastopol was being “rented” for like 1 rouble per year.
But yeah, I saw no future there for me and went to Ireland to at least be close to my wife and bring her there (though it turned out to be the UK)
I had seen how protests had to be “registered” for and even being near the OMON (special police in cameo) for the usual protests on Nevsky could have me in the Gulag. I mean, I saw a young woman hold up a blank sheet of A4 paper (about 8x11) and she was hauled off into the OMON bus.
if by “time for a change” you meant for me to foment a revolution, I’d be dead and so would my wife and family.
The day you can be arrested for holding up a blank sheet of paper in the USA is not far off.
I know that’s a lyric - gotta run for an errand and I’ll figure it out.
As much as I appreciated your ‘real’ answer, if I can be of any help in solving this one, please just let me know.
Just sitting in the car driving my wife to work was enough.
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine. That’s the nicest song you’ll hear about… what’s his name?
This is about as cruel as the Stones get, and that’s saying a lot:
Stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the Tsar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
ETA: Just cicked on your “help” and saw some kind of crispy burger and of course then the title. But all I had to do was bounce that ‘time for a change’ in my head - was it the Beatles? No. Was it the 60’s? Yes. Bada bing.
I’m remembering a song from The Roar of the Greasepaint the Smell of the Crowd. Sung by Cyril Ritchard.
There are so many things I remember
From those deeply revered days of old.
When living was gentle and gracious,
and working folk did as they’re told.They were wonderful days I remember,
when fellow could live like a king.
And children were working in coal mines,
and life was a beautiful thing.
I just read that both the UK and Germany have issued travel advisories for the US.
Scary times.
Also, Bea Arthur (Golden Girls star) had her military service information removed from the DOD site.
She was one of the first to join the Woman’s Reserve during WW II.
Insanity.
I mentioned that to my wife today.
She called to get a forbearance on her loan today, until July.
Don’t feel too bad. Apparently, Mika Brzezinski from morning joe didn’t even know what a Furry was:
Mika Brzezinski Learns About ‘Furries’
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Mika Brzezinski learns what a “Furry” is and promptly runs off set.
Can I go in carrying pictures of Chairman Mao? How about the collected sonnets of the General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea aka Trump’s Rocket Man pal Kim Jong Un?
Kinda like I said earlier, hold up an 8x11" blank sheet of paper and you’re going to a Supermax in El Salvador going back to wherever you came from
Bea Arthur - inconceivable and I know what the word means, Inigo or Mandy or whatever your real name is. She was a Marine, honourably discharged, and as I understand it, once a Marine always a Marine. Whatever General is on the Joint Chiefs of staff should resign immediately. The Marines will respect and honor him even if bone-spurs wanted it. Thursday Night Massacre! The entirety of Joint Chiefs of Staff should resign.
(I was JK’ing about Mandy Patinkin. When I was young, I saw him in Evita on Broadway)
The man can sing and hit some high notes:
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow.
Oh man, Hegseth ought to be facing a world of pain and he’s gotta go and as I said before, the Joint Chiefs of staff should get some cohones and resign at once. As should their replacements. I mean, even fucking Kissinger is rolling over in his grave.
Holocaust remembrance pages removed in Pentagon’s DEI purge
Stories of Holocaust survivors were caught in the anti-DEI net, as was an article about Jewish “Golden Girls” star Bea Arthur
Alright, so perhaps her record of service was not removed but this is the stuff of Stalin, removing the faces of those he executed from pictures.
He’s gotta go. I know he won’t yet I am hoping for that world of pain.
Can congress go into session? SCOTUS? Fuck, if we’re going to do sham elections in Greenland and take it anyway, make it so. Scrape Ukraine’s soil and build golf courses in Gaza. Kick the Seminole Indians out of Florida already! (Oh, never mind, it’s been done).
If the USA is going to be a fascist dictatorship, be one already. Skip right from the first reel to the last as Leni Riefenstahl made this movie 80 years ago.