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Happy is he who says "I am a Turk.”
”Well, sir, what do you suggest? We stand here and shed tears and call each other names... or shall we go to Istanbul?”
--Kasper Gutman, The Maltese Falcon (1941)
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...and when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.”
-- Frank Zappa
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Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. [Istanbul, Turkey]
"Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: mad horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.”
--Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
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I have so little to give you, for I cannot give you what I do not have... but I can give you pain.
For my last morning I had fresh cold papaya and a last cup of coffee from the farm, got a lau lau plate (pork in taro leaves and the eternal macaroni salad) to take to the terminal, and made it on fumes to the Tesoro north of town to fill up before returning the rental car. I admit strongly considering not going home after they wouldn’t let my ( Read more... )
