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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey! Prague was one of the last cities ever to operate a public pneumatic mail system (until 2002).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When people ask me why I so very much want to go there, I always respond "Why the Prague not?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

"Why the Prague not?"

Very Praguematic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Damn what a brilliant film

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

One step further back, very Orwellian, or even Kafkaesque.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Kafka was from Prague, probably no coincidence!

[–] sangriaferret 2 points 3 months ago

My first thought also