My Apartment Manager is not a Planning Thread, #14

[Labster]

One of the weird things about stories is that you some times learn something that makes you interpret the story in a different light.  Like in The Big O, the word "Megadeus" sounds a little weird.  But apparently Megadux was a real title given in the late Roman Empire.  Probably not related, but just an interesting thread to pull at.

Then I found this, while tracking the Russian war of aggression: a post about a drunk Russian guy who threw his grenade launcher at the ground, and the RPG detonated .. this post a meme about the Ukrainian drone video of the event.  But I'm going, why are people talking about a squirrel?  It turns out "catch a squirrel" in Slavic languages like Russian is a euphemism for being so drunk you can't stand.  (Just like Inuit words for snow, right?)

But then I think back to Rocky and Bullwinkle, and how our Pottsylvanian friends are always trying to catch a squirrel.  That pun has been right there, the whole time, literally my entire life, and I never had the linguistic background to get it.  Was it intentional by the writers?  I wouldn't put it past them.  But it's definitely usable for us when our other characters go to Frostbite Falls.

Also, war is hell, and I'm sorry that this guy had to die so that I could learn a pun.  But he should have thought of that before... well, a whole series of bad choices.