"Pat's having a Balkan Crisis today. Anoreth told him that there's no such thing as Yugoslavia anymore, and it was just devastating."
Tell him there are those who would argue that there never should have been a Yugoslavia. Tell him "S" is for Serbia...they're not heretics.
I told the Methodist story at church today after the Liturgy. The former Methodist converts got a kick out of it (so did the priest)
IT'S NOT YUGOSLAVIA? IT'S NOT YUGOSLAVIA!!! YOU CAN'T SEE ME!!!
I'm please we could contribute some humor! For all I know, *somebody* at Central UMC speaks Greek, but there were no Greek materials in the preschool playroom :-).
We'll have to find a newer map and work on the latest version of Balkan Republics. I suppose it wouldn't work just to tell him it's "European Turkey"?