[QUOTE=Sleeps With Butterflies]
I think it would be interesting, for sure.
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How… cryptic…
[QUOTE=bigbabysweets2000]
How… cryptic…
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How so?
I would like to see a Ask the Holocaust survivor thread. And if it’s been done, I want to see more.
[QUOTE=Sleeps With Butterflies]
I wonder if there should be a thread where people come in to say what they could offer in an “Ask the…” capacity.
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That’s essentially what everyone’s doing with this thread.
In that vein, I personally could do:
Ask the former bank teller who got held up
Ask the former fireworks salesman
Ask the first-year law student
Ask the carpenter
Ask the former loan processor
Ask the guy in a long-distance relationship
Ask the Kansan
Ask the recovering English major
Ask midwestern ex-pat who has just moved to the East Coast
Ask the guy who’s spent a long day studying at the library, and is now about halfway through his second double bourbon on the rocks
…but I don’t see much demand for any of those. Except maybe the last one.
[QUOTE=Mr. Excellent]
I think Eva Luna was something of a Russia/Easten Europe wonk - don’t think she ever mentioned living in the USSR, but she had some good threads on her trips to former soviet states.
By the way, is she still around here?
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Still here, just haven’t been around as much because work and happy personal things are sucking up all my Internet time 
And yes, I did start a thread like that once. I spent the fall 1989 semester in then-Leningrad and the summer 2005 semester in Novosibirsk - it’s been far too long. I need to get back to the former USSR one of these days.
Ask the Glossophobiac?
Definitely ask the trepanist (trepanner?).
Okay, I’m sorry. I know it’s been 13 days since there were any replies to this thread. I kept seeing it and meant to answer but I couldn’t think of anything, but I have an answer now:
Ask the Drug Enforcement Administration special agent.