Twitter tales

Apropos of nothing, I used to have this Hungarian thesis advisor with a limp. One day, he did a lecture on the 1956 uprising.

— Jeb Lund (@Mobute) February 15, 2014

This military history dude in class—basically a gamer, picture it—interrupts and starts offering advice on how he'd defeat the Red Army.

— Jeb Lund (@Mobute) February 15, 2014

The thesis advisor lets him go on and on, dilating endlessly on how he'd roll some military history 20-sided die to defeat the Soviets.

— Jeb Lund (@Mobute) February 15, 2014

Finally, the Hungarian prof lets out an, "Ahhhh." Just this kind of back-throat sighing, as if he's been expecting this disappointment.

— Jeb Lund (@Mobute) February 15, 2014

"At the time," he says, "we found that Molotov cocktails dropped on the tanks from the second story would burn the people in them alive."

— Jeb Lund (@Mobute) February 15, 2014

Military history wonk shut the fuck up for the rest of the semester.

— Jeb Lund (@Mobute) February 15, 2014

Those of us who knew about him always guessed that the Hungarian prof's limp came from being shot by the Red Army. He never said.

— Jeb Lund (@Mobute) February 15, 2014