re: #449 Belafon

He was being nice to you, but that wouldn’t stop him from scamming the other suckers.

When were you there, though? Because that attitude may not be the one of the current Turkish administration.

re: #450 makeitstop

Not Constantinople?

Not quite that long ago. They weren’t in NATO yet, and it was the USSR that they liked to play against us. I got there in 1979, and left in 1980 (three days later).