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A Palestinian Arabic Cuban, located in Dubai, India, and NYC, seemingly all at the same time? Guy must move around faster than Superman and that speeding bullet. Should make for a short, and wholly regrettable, session. I'll have the soup.

Sadly, been there … or close to it. Not a "finest hour" moment.

In a town down South, where eccentricity may be viewed as a charming oddity, if not actually embraced, there lived an old woman, probably in her eighties. She was slight of build, with gray and curly hair, and wandered around wearing scuffs on her feet and an old-style housecoat with nothing underneath. She would stroll some days through her neighborhood and “entertain” those she encountered by lifting and holding up her housecoat and exclaiming “Superpussy!” On such days, one victim after another was exposed to her show and shown her “Superpussy!” Old and younger, singly and in pairs, people were treated to her “Superpussy!” show. One day the woman came upon an old man being pushed in his wheelchair by a caregiver. The old man, somewhat thin and frail, was bald on top and wore thick, wire-framed glasses. The woman, true to her style, approached and stood before the man, lifting her housecoat and exclaiming “Superpussy!” The old man leaned forward in his chair, pursed his lips and squinted his eyes as he made a lengthy examination. When done, he relaxed back into his wheelchair and told the caregiver, “I’ll take the soup.”

Rene Descartes, the French philosopher, was sitting at an outside table of a Paris coffeehouse. A waitress came by with a fresh pot and asked, "Would you like more coffee, monsieur?" Descartes responded, "No, I think not," then -Poof- he disappeared.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel sought relief from the pressures of her office by engaging in a solitary car trip through neighboring countries. As she approached a border, she joined the line of vehicles waiting to leave Germany and enter France. As she waited, Merkel saw a young French border agent approaching and carrying a clipboard packed with official forms. The young man leaned to ask Merkel the short and simple question, "Occupation?" The German Chancellor responded: "No, just visiting this time."

As being perhaps the now most newly minted member, I am happy to extend warm greetings to all my many and new compatriots in these forums, as I begin my rise from the lowly rank of Newbie to the elevated heights of fame, and perhaps of infamy, to which I so ardently aspire and will so doggedly pursue. I have lurked in these environs for many years and seen and read so much -some good, some less so- and am anxious to lend what I might to the culture and comradery of these precincts. My initial forays will likely be of a humorous bent and included in the Friday Funnies, started so lovingly and long ago by Jackhammer, a man I never met, but whose gifts of grace and good wit, of charm and good character made that forum so wonderfully delightful to visit and to linger in, and which virtues persist to the present day. I was devastated by his loss and will strive to make my contributions in the forum he started to be as a tribute to that man and his memory. Those of us in the areas of and surrounding the nation's capital are in a fresh period of a new mourning, as the closure of Secrets was recently announced. I have spent many a happy evening there, and more than a few dollars, enjoying the sight of such lovely young men, looking never so good as when wearing only socks and a smile. The galleries here must now be my main source of seeing, if not touching, such beautiful men. Again, my greetings to you all, and given with the high hope of charming chatter and wonderful friendships to come.