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David Brooks Smells Something Funny

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Occasional Reader3/04/2009 10:09:06 am PST

re: #234 turn

A first for me, OR misses a reference.

You know those stories from the Battle of the Bulge, in which American sentries would challenge those approaching their lines by quizzing them about sports trivia? I’d have had to basically say, “ah, might as well go ahead and shoot me, ich bin Berliner, whatever…”