Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 20, 2016

Zonker, a jet-setting free loader.

There is a particular word in Italian for Zonker stay at other people home : “Scroccone”

Sounds better than its English equivalent, “scrounger.”

Nothin’ like crashin’ at the castle !

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Reminds me of a stanza from Jimmy Buffet’s Gypsies in the Palace…

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We’re gypsies in the palace, he’s left us here alone

The order of the sleepless knights will now assume the throne

I like the wig. Make it in orange and the Donald could have an optional “look.”

The proto-Lebowski.

The House of Lords will soon be saying, “Oh, Lord, what have we done?”

Linguist said,

@Night-Gaunt49

“We once had this long discussion about whether the Rom and the Traveling People weren’t somehow related – the lifestyle, the bad reputation, the close knit families, even many of the customs were similar.”

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Linguistically (thus right down your alley), the Roma are kin to Celts and people of the Indus Valley, thus to me with my Welsh, Irish and Scot ancestors.

(Louis L’Amour even touched on it with his Tinker in the Sackett novels even though the linguistic work hadn’t been done at the time.)

jackreacher’ound.