For Sale
FOR SALE: One extremely lazy, clumsy Vietnamese houseboy, who is a hard worker but inattentive in his chores who does not listen when the Czar tells him to be careful around the Waterford crystal, and thinks he knows better. And when the Czar threatens to sell him for his oafishness, calls the Czar on it, prompting an immediate FOR SALE ad that sent the boy running, in tears, to his dog bed underneath the lobby staircase begging forgiveness.
That is all.
Oh, and Mandarin has a Rubik’s tesseract for sale, with 64 of the sides solved. Free to good home, if you can find an incredibly large or incredibly small place to store it.
He has posted the solution to solving it here:
Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.