really thick books are colloquially called 'schinken ' (meaning ham) in german. might be stepping into a duh trap rn, but it seemed relevant here (:

typhoid mary might be fitting

somehow read this as bernie, which is not usually a default, but fit pretty well

well put

persian, tho its quicker to click on the 'translate' button in the tweet options! also google can detect what language it is :)
cheers