Awww, Rosen is so nice.  He doesn’t want Winzig to worry his pretty head about it.  Or talk to anybody else.

The German Luftwaffe did name bounces of a hard landing after weekdays.  It reminds me of how my Dad startled my sister and me and had us screaming with hilarity when he said that he was going to “whip us into next week.”  How was that possible?  Time travel?  We didn’t yet understand the concept.

It’s now thought it comes from the travel of the European invaders across this continent, as they traced out a week’s travel. On the prairies, they could literally see where they’d be for another week.  As Dutch farmers measured distance by pipes of tobacco smoked, our immediate European measured distance by time traveled by wagon.

Yes, I had to ask two guys up here to please stop arguing about when they got here, whether in 1946 or 1963 — if there were any Makah in the room it would make us all look like fools.