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*plops a filled pewter tankard etched with "The Uneven Bar" and a filled ceramic flagon on the bar* NP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lo4SLAJz-U

No, but 2 tough guy Scottish Groundskeepers with red hair? (yeah, I get they're playing off the name "Scotts", but the red hair & attitude...)

I think I would have either left prior to, or walked out mid-meeting - hopefully embarrassing the self-important ass on the world stage.

Not the stuff of your own choosing, but what were your parents listening to that you heard repeatedly? As for me: rock & roll: Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Rivers, The Ventures, Elvis, Neil Diamond, assorted 50s & early 60s groups on 45s country: Johnny Cash, Doug Kershaw crooners/singers: Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis, Ray Conniff Singers, Tennessee Ernie Ford instrumental: Ferrante & Teicher, music from James Bond movies, Tom (Tomlinson) & Jerry (Kennedy) folk music: The Kingston Trio, The Limeliters, The Chad Mitchell Trio, Simon & Garfunkel polka music: Frankie Yankovic, The Naturals, The Hi-Tops, The Ampol Aires, Lil Wally, Johnny Bomba, The Polka Chips, Ron Terry

*shakes of the ennui* NP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDktBZzQIiU

*serves up a Vanilla Skies*

*delivers a proper pint* NP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HlKpWdrq-4

Great, she's gotten into the Stoli...

Is the redheaded Scotts Turf Builder guy supposed to be based on Willie?

*slides you a virgin mary* NP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Vw9RGm1tM

This guy wacks at anything.

*serves up Jameson shot & Natural light with a furrowed brow* NP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiJoqeTTK2c

*serves up Stoli (run out of Nemiroff*

*serves up more Nemiroff*

*Gotta do something to drown out these damn crickets* NP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm4nO-2F488 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MviBlaTIV-s

This may sound strange, coming from someone of Ukrainian descent, but I don't like the sound of it. I think every one of the subjugated countries deserve autonomy, but I don't think of the collapse of Russia the country as a good thing. Of late, power vacuums have not ended well for anyone. Imagine Russia going through another 1918, with multiple factions trying to wrest control (along with outside interference from other countries - US tries to back one, China steps in and backs another, NATO, India, Iran...). Yes, Putin must go; yes something better should take his place (even if they aren't US friendly), but a complete collapse - no.