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I apologize if I misread your intention, but you must admit, you provided no context for your remark (as you now attempt to remedy), but simply targeted the thesis of a post post modern Russia, and did so in language that could be understood as snarky. You did not elaborate your thesis, simply took aim at me and my thesis, and fired, without any further elaboration. I apologize if I misunderstood your intention, but I think I can be fairly forgiven, for you were not careful enough in directing your comment. If, as you aver in subsequent posts, Mr. Lavrov was trying to placate his home audience, you could have said that in your original post, rather than now. So, if I misread your intention, I apologize.
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I think the funniest part about puns is when the other person doesn’t “get it” or think they’re not “punny”. 
. They show a sense of humor and good command of the language idioms. Surely laughter is good for the sole…especially the foot stomping kind. 
Estate sales and rummage sales seem sacrilegious and an invasion of privacy to me but then I guess there will be one for me when I die😇.
Thanks for the effort Mohgarr 
Thanks for sharing some of your background, QVBB. It helps to understand your perspective, and that you carry with you some old family trauma. Like Dr. Farrell and Xsexess, sometimes I also have some difficulty in interpreting what you mean in a few posts.
My Grandmother was Polish, and sadly, I never met her, as she died when my Dad was two. Dad (who was a kid living to the east of Berlin while Berlin was being bombed during the war) never talked much about the war or even the Germany he fled (when he was a youth, kicked out of his home by the Russian troops), and thus I never understood his heavy and sombre moods. So, I grew up sheltered from, and rather quite appallingly ignorant of, all of that – he suffered lifelong depression and died in his fourties, and I can only feel in my heart and bones that he carried a heavy trauma burden.
This is one reason I’ve been finding Dr. Farrell’s books interesting – they cast some background to the geopolitics of that region. A kind of background that is not discussed by many historians, and which I think helps with exploring the “Why do certain things happen” part.
btw: My husband and I didn’t know what a “Snarky Pettifogger” is, despite that we grew up in an English-speaking country! We had to look up that word, and listened to an English tutor (to whom my husband occasionally tunes in) enunciating it (which made us smile a little when he did it). I hope you’ve forgiven Dr. Farrell for this, because some of us have learned a new word, and, because it sounds so funny, I can imagine a few people are going to have a good laugh with Snarky Pettifogger at their dinner tables!