John Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:
> Kevin Gowen wrote:
> 
>> There were other, much smaller Mom and Pop sentou in Matsusaka, but I
>> only went to Matsusaka no Yu. It had video games and katsu curry. How
>> could I refuse?
> 
> Didn't know you had such plebian tastes!
> 
>> > Still, never mind all that, what matters is that you're still out there
>> > at the age of - what, thirty or so? - being a "scalawag".
>>
>> Not thirty just yet. What can I say? I'm whimsical.
>>
>> > There's a good old boy!
>>
>> It's fun. I'd go cuckoo, otherwise.
> 
> If you're pushing thirty and still being a "scalawag" you must have already
> *gone* cuckoo. But it's OK. As long as you don't *know* you've gone cuckoo
> you can continue to simulate normal functioning. My telling you this won't
> upset the apple cart, since you already discount anything I say as
> meaningless (it's part of being cuckoo).

No, I only dismiss things you say that only find their support on the 
web pages of the Socialist Club of the World (or whatever it is called) 
and other such crackpots.

>> "I like old Joe. Joe is a good old boy" (Truman on Stalin)
> 
> I fixed this. What Harry Truman *actually* said shouldn't be allowed to
> stand in the way of what he *should have said.

Hmm. http://tinyurl.com/kv8t gets zero hits, as does a Lexis search, but 
I do not doubt your superior knowledge of complimentary remarks made 
about your Communist heroes. However, the quote stays as it is until I 
find confirmation of your version.

I took the quote from the Times's obituary for Stalin, "Obituary: Stalin 
Rose From Czarist Oppression to Transform Russia into Mighty Socialist 
State" (March 6, 1953) (ooh! mighty!)

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1221.html

Could those goofy bastards have gushed over him any more? I don't 
suppose you were at the NY Times back then?

-- 
Kevin Gowen
"I like old Joe. Joe is a decent fellow,"
  - U.S. President Harry S Truman, speaking for all liberals by saying 
about Stalin what he should have said about McCarthy