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I’m not sure that there’s not a difference between backscratcher and cocksucker. If I’m right, Barr is not the former but the latter. And at least a bedbug, probably much, much worse.

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2019: The Year of the Bedbug

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“Ganz Wien/ Ist jetzt auf Kokain...”

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Say what you will of the German-speakers, but at least they still pronounce 'cocaïne' properly.

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Hey, German-speakers gave us terms like “Sitzpinkler” and “Heulsuse”, and I couldn’t live without “Arschgeige”.

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On a jobs board I included among my talents "Sitzfleisch".

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Unrealistic. A man with Barr's build drinking Diet Sprite and refusing food? He looks like he'd be on his third trip to the buffet with a rum and Coke in his hand.

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Ordinarily yes, but Roy's version of him seems consumed by guilt, to the point that he tries to do some good by giving advice to a random stranger. It's actually a very touching story. Is the real Bill Barr anything like he's portrayed here? Who can say?

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"They smile in your face/And all the time they want to smile in your face/The Backscratchers..."

(Isn't "Rise" by Herb Alpert?)

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Funny, we've just been watching episodes of the formative soul TV show "Sherman's Showcase"─I'm sure the O'Jays played it multiple times, lip-synching as badly as they could….

Also, <obligatory Scaramucci reference>.

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In Which The Most Corrupt "Attorney General" Since John Mitchell Bemusedly Considers The Vagaries Of Cruel Fate Over A "Diet Sprite" Which Is Actually A Vodka Tonic No Tonic

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I found this post late. Funny how things can work out....

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