The “word” poteeweet—usually printed as po-tee-weet or poo-tee-weet—is the last word, “spoken” by a bird, of Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel Slaughterhouse 5. The novel follows it’s hero, Billy Pilgrim, through time and space, from his home town of Ilium, NYC, to his being exhibited in a zoo on the planet of Tralfamadore, to the battlefields [...]
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As you know, today is the anniversary of when the USA finally decided that it could get things at least as wrong as if not more so than its incumbent overlord and therefore declared independence from the unreasonable Brits and in so doing launched itself on its own trajectory towards being a global power and [...]
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