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B. Stover Asks and We Answer

Yesterday’s post re New Year’s resolutions features a photo of a tuica bottle with the Dracula label. B. Stover asks: “Wonder what the Dracula tuica has to do with resolutions.” Tuica has been on my mind because it crops up in a scene in Mrs. Plansky’s Revenge (coming July 25, pre-orderable). It’s a potent Romanian drink and Dracula is perhaps the most famous Romanian. But why the heck did I post it? It must have something to do with undermining the whole concept of New Year’a resolutions. That’s the best I can do, B.!

Monkey in TO FETCH A THIEF

B. Stover was puzzled by a reference in yesterday’s post to a monkey scene in TO FETCH A THIEF. Yes, a puzzle for sure, seeing as there is no such scene. But a baboon plays a role:

I ran onto the loading dock. Still some light left and I could see Peanut clearly. She was on the ground, walking toward the perp’s old – what was the word? – jalopy. That was it. She walked over to the jalopy, lifted one of her huge round feet and stomped down, crushing the whole front end. Why? I had no idea, but I liked it, liked it a whole lot. Then Peanut raised her trunk high and blew a beautiful trumpeting sound up toward the darkening sky. I loved that trumpeting sound – as good as Roy Eldridge or better – and was hoping for more, when the baboon blew right by me with a whoosh of air, flew out into the night and disappeared from view, although not before I saw that he had the sombrero.

I jumped down onto the ground and went over to Peanut. This was the Peanut Case, meaning she was my responsibility. First I had to get her attention. That probably meant waiting until she’d finished crushing the jalopy’s back end. It didn’t take long.

 

Sugar Saga

Here’s the missing Sugar. A strange urban sort of story, Admin says, probably only posted today because he’s fond of the word “bonkers.” (Maybe B. Stover will have something etymological to say.)

http://nypost.com/2015/02/25/dog-walker-loses-womans-pit-bull-after-meltdown/

Stovernia

“No baseball in Stovernia?” Spence says.

“That’s going to be tough,” says Admin. “A jailable offense, I believe. But we can drown our sorrows in Cahors.”

“It’s a dictatorship, I take it?”

“I believe so.”

“Benevolent?”

“As long as a certain someone never hears the crack of the bat. Grammatical and syntactical errors aren’t taken lightly, either.”

“So – ‘He slud into third’ would be very bad?”

“The worst.”

Welcome Kiwi and Hazel.

Happy Birthday Ben! And many many more!