>>>Is Monsieur Beane related to Mr Bean - or in view of his role, to Basil Fawlty, perhaps? ;-)
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>>>(how typical of a foreigner to post something obtuse like that!)
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>>Oh, I know all about Rowan Atkinson, thanks to the movie. You would be surprised how often I have gotten the "Mr. Bean!" line. Also String Beane, Lima Beane, etc. etc. etc. (Even Les Beane in one memorable instance, although I believe that is anatomically impossible). It's not a big deal but be thankful your name is Ryan.
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>When I was teaching, there was a colleague named Subotić, who greeted me with "morning, neighbor" even though he lived some 20km away. Why? Well, subota is Saturday, nedelja is Sunday... and we couldn't form a club, because there was nobody named Petković (petak - Friday). Though, the staff room chief's first name was Sredoje (sreda - Wednesday), but we didn't really take him into consideration.


There really isn't anything like a Subotić-nedelja joke, LOL.

You haven't said a lot in the immigration discussion. Do you have no thoughts or too many?