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My then-son-in-law had three cats, one of them an orange Maine Coon. Once I brushed that cat and made about 18" of thick yarn from the single brushing. Maine Coons are one of the larger breeds of domestic cat, and also tend to be fluffy-furred.

Also in 1919, a moderately respected but little-known British economist - who had walked off the British negotiating team at Versailles in disgust a year earlier - published a book laying out the economic and political history of Europe from about 1920 to about 1938. Yes, it was a future history. Yes, he was substantially correct, and this made him an extremely respected and well-known British economist. But not an influential one. This was actually the second time he had walked off a job as economic advisor to the British government, thoroughly disgusted at how politicians mucked things up. In 1936 he published another book, describing the huge benefits to be achieved by having the politicians run the economy. This made him an extremely influential British economist. Of course, the politicians mucked things up. I'm 99.99% confident that he expected them to.

It is Sarah that will do that. AT least in canon.

Yeah, them and the snapbook and other new fangled things. Need to get off my lawn.

That means there are a bunch of you young whippersnappers all over our lawn!

Tedd shall pet her and squeeze her and call her Rocky.

There's also the fact that Grace is fireproof and therefore flying fire-sheep should not impede an African Grace anymore than regular flying sheep even if fire-sheep should exist. Does Tedd have any moose forms?

While you don't "win" TTRPG, I, as a the game master, approve of this plan.

But what is the airspeed of an African Grace carrying a coconut?

Not to mention that 1920s and early 1930s Germany was being treated as Europe's whipping boy.

Alas, it will take a few more days to properly compile the results. I underestimated how laborious this process would be. I do expect to have it finished before the next weekend. Thank you all for your patience! As a quick teaser, did you know that the average age of the El Goonish Shive community member is 29? And the median age is 27!

That is not funny. Germany does not deserve the poor reputation it has merely for falling prey to corruption and political malfeasance. Few nations could lay claim to being safe from a similar fate, as current events amply prove.

It would have been a shorter movie, for sure. Oh, sure.

It honestly saddens me that the person in the White House, in the middle of a hurricane causing massive troubles, is spending more time on justifying a simple mistake that anyone could have made than on the people in need of disaster relief.

That, in a word, sucks the big one. No, wait that's 4 words... You know what I mean.

Actually, on that specific point Keynes was significantly preceded by Henry Ford. Keynes laid out a plan where in economic bad times the government would spend freely to get things moving, borrowing if necessary to do so. Then in times of prosperity the government would cut spending and raise taxes to pay off debt and build up reserves against future bad times. The politicians loved the first half of that plan. The second... well, all that borrowing and spending didn't cause a problem during the downturn, so when things are going well it should be okay to borrow and spend even more wildly, right? Thing is, Keynes had twice publicly expressed disgust at how politicians were mucking things up. He'd built his reputation by laying out in detail the consequences of a specific instance of politicians mucking things up. And yet he gained power and influence by, in effect, assuming politicians would not muck things up - and I can't believe that this genius with this great depth of experience was that stupid. Unfortunately, that means I think he sold out and betrayed his science, the world, and the principles that led him to walk out on the British negotiators at Versailles, for his own personal profit.