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Anyone acquainted with singer Daniel Powter will understand my frustration over his being such a one-hit wonder. Even Men Without Hats managed to break out of "Safety Dance" by also recording "Pop Goes the World;" but it seemed like Daniel Powter would NEVER escape from being one-hitterish. This...

( REALLY, IVAN, I MEAN JOHN: AFTER WE'VE KNOWN EACH OTHER SO LONG, ARE YOU _REALLY_ ADDRESSING ME WITH A FORMAL PRONOUN?) VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV A MODEST INSERT OF BACK STORY: Many generations before Ilya's birth, King Rurik of the Varangians brought...

"Yefrosiniya, dorogaya, how is Ilya doing at the grindstone?" So asked the homesteading farmer Ivan Timofeyevich, calling through the door of the izba (cabin) while he rubbed down his hard-working mule. "He didn't stop with sharpening the spare plowshare, the axe and the knives; he also...

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Anyone who has watched the movie "The 13th Warrior" has been given a glimpse of the fusion, the blending, which created the original Russia-- known to us now as Ukraine-- and went on to create the "Rus" which now carries the name of Russia. The...

OUT OF THE ATTIC AT LAST!!!!! Beginning _before_ I joined The Dancing Lawn-- in fact, before I retired from the Navy-- I created a Russian-language graphic novel intended to help military linguists improve their fluency with _written_ Russian. My then-still-living first wife Mary suggested...

My mother is deceased, but The Dancing Lawn is not. Leave it to Copperfox to dig up the past. 'Twas I, for instance, who found out that Kim Hightower alias Dayhawk had become a doctor!

In case anyone _hasn't_ noticed yet, EveningStar is _back_ on the forum!! He has not abandoned his righteous work with Trail Life, but his wife Lady Badger is helping him to straddle the obligations. Look around: the Great Badger is not just looking, he is _writing_ stuff again!

Okay, _this_ year I have as my theme a TV tune which partially reflects the adventures that Wood Nymph and I face. It is the title music from the slightly history-based Western series "The Young Raiders." A similar mood is available in the title theme of an _absolutely_ made-up Western called...

At the time I looked up this old thread, I was listening to a Youtube commentator calling himself Steampunk Desperado. Making it clear that he IS NOT one of the "extreme-right Nazis" who currently are close to extinction in the real world, Steampunk Desperado objectively describes how...

^^^ For the benefit of other T.D.L. members, Pholus the Centaur is my personal friend-- who, in a different setting, uses the alias of "Professor Loquacious." He assumes a centaur identity here because he has written books ABOUT centaurs, imagining a world where centaurs routinely mingle with...

The resident actual Russian linguist assures EveningStar that he did very well translating the above righteous wish. For any picky- picky actual _Russians_ who might see this, "DA" here means not just "yes," but "May it be so." Oh yes, may it _indeed_ be so. The Apostle Peter assures us that...

In the course of being a Russian linguist, I made the pen-pal acquaintance of an elderly Red Army veteran from World War Two. He had been saddled at birth with a _female_ first name, "IRMA!"-- because his family had a rigid custom of naming children for dead relatives. At the time of Irma's...

Rob Rice, educator of honorable warriors! Professor Loquacious, keeper of historic wonders! Your member-tag proclaims you, and fills The Mysterious Russian Bard with high-flying gladness! I now cheerfully FOLLOW YOU!!!!!!

Marian in the first Jones movie had cause to put Indy down, because he had genuinely offended her. But the Waller-Bridge behavior in "Dial of Destiny" was there ONLY for the sake of girl power girl power girl power. As for the female Black Panther, even girl power should not have enabled her to...

Completely unconcerned with Squire Vindictive's disfigured face, Waldon said, "I hear that you and Master Yi work as a team; he relies on his kung fu and melee weapons, while you use a chain plus daggers. No offense intended, but aren't you concerned about somebody just standing back and...

I insert this note after completing the adventure Matthew Durand shared with swans and the Heather Thomas look-alike. What was already in this post before tonight's editing remains relevant, now that Sorcery Lass is free to pursue her Aslan-approved project. She is bound for Planet Churn, to...

The jokes I share above are, to the best of my knowledge, original to me. Here, though, comes something I can't take credit for. Just twenty minutes after posting my previous, Wood Nymph having retired to her room, I went on YouTube again-- to find that a channel called "Entertaining A.I." did...

Chuck Norris was unsatisfied with his night-vision gear, so he invented a new color of light which only he could see.

There can be no excuse for what Andrew Adamson did to-- not "did with," "did TO"--the Prince Caspian movie. The canonical Caspian was a BOY, who could and did regard King Peter as a role model; Adamson's version was an age-peer AND RIVAL to Peter. Peter was made to look silly for identifying...

THERE ARE FIVE PHYSICAL STATES OF MATTER: PARTICLE PLASMA, GAS, LIQUID, SOLID, AND CHUCK NORRIS.