Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘Assault Battalion No. 5 (Rohr)’

My latest acquisitions

I can’t post tonight for a variety of reasons. Mainly, I’ve had to spend the evening with my cats, who are terrified of the skyrockets that my slobbering, obese, mentally subpar neighbors have begun shooting off. My neighbors buy illegal Mexican municipal-level fireworks that are fired with mortars, so you hear a loud bang, three…

 

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Of course you know this means war.

The U.S. Postal Service has stolen another irreplaceable postcard. As my Aussie pal Butters told me, that was a real show stopper. Probably a grenadier of Assault Battalion No. 5 (Rohr). The sleeve badge is remarkable. The card was stolen in New York. This means war. I spent the morning changing all my bills to…

 

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The eleventh hour, eleventh day, eleventh month

Today is Veteran’s Day, November 11, 2013. It was Armistice Day, the end of combat operations between the belligerents of World War I. The ceasefire took place at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. It’s always been rather disgusting to me that people can negotiate and fight at…

 

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Why I’d pay 700 Euro for a postcard

I’ve struck a nerve with my post “Bigotry can cost you a lot,” about how a German postcard seller screwed himself out of hundreds of Euro by refusing to sell to Americans. In that post I said I would’ve paid 700 Euro for the cards. Actually, I would paid that much for just the one…

 

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