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I can't remember if I mentioned this before, but, if I want to express to a friend the idea that the argument that they are making is going to be too hard for someone else to follow, because the examples and analogies which they are using are obscure, and therefore, to understand the argument, you need to have a whole lot of cultural context in common, and you just can't assume that people HAVE that level of cultural context in common, I just say that all in one word: "Darmok."

I find this vaguely ironic.

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So, since my cousins Todd and Kate both graduated college and moved into their own houses, my aunt and uncle have decided to move to a smaller house. The house was bought to house Jackie and David, and Todd and Kate, and Jackie's father Gus, who had his own, well, father-in-law apartment, I guess you'd call it. Since Gus died a couple years ago, and Todd and Kate have their own places, they really need only a third of the space they had before.

As usual, when someone in the family moves to a smaller place, or dies, Lis and I are given a chunk of their books, and most of their booze. I'm the only one in the family who is likely to actually DRINK the stuff. Everyone in the family has, like, a bottle of Canadian Club which was bought in the Sixties and is about two-thirds full, a couple flavored brandies, some liqueurs, maybe a dark rum -- nobody in the family drinks much, so the stuff that they DO buy tends to be either the stuff you make girly-drinks from (which is fine by me: I love girly drinks), or reasonably high-quality stuff. I mean, they may have bought the bottle of Meyers Rum twenty years ago, and are never going to drink it, but, y'know, Meyers is actually pretty good, and you wouldn't want to throw it away, so I get it. 'Cause I'll drink it.

It DOES mean my liquor cabinet is kind of filled-to-overflowing, and includes stuff I don't drink, but, in general, it's a good deal.
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