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   Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 07-Nov-2025 10:38:20 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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   In a small village, there once lived a young girl named Barbara. Barbara was hard at work baking the most mouth watering rhubarb cake of all time. Everyone loved it so much, that they named her Rhubarb Barbara.

   Barbara's Rhubarb cake was so popular that she opened a new shop, aptly named Rhubarb Barbara Bar.

   Naturally, business was booming. Three distinguished barbarians dined so often in the Rhubarb Barbara Bar that they became known as the Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarians.

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     The Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarians had beautiful beards. When their beards grew long, they would visit their barber.

     Their barber, noting the regularly growing beards of the barbarians, became known curiously as the Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarian Beard Barber.

     The Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarian Beard Barber could eat heartily at Rhubarb Barbara's rhubarb cake bar, and the barbarians drank the barber's beer, which shall hereafter be known as Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarian Beard Barber Beer.

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     The Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarian Beard Barber Beer became incredibly popular and sold very well. The barber hired a bar maid named Bärbel, who became known as Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarian Beard Barber Beer Bar Bärbel.

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     With the Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarian Beard Barber's regular treatment of Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarian Beards and the Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarians attending the Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarian Beard Barber Beer Bar staffed by Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarian Beard Barber Beer Bar Bärbel, everyone then regularly ate and enjoyed Rhubarb Barbara's delicious Rhubarb Cake while celebrating by drinking Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarian Beard Barber's Beer. Cheers!

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 07-Nov-2025 10:43:50 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     With the Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarian Beard Barber's regular treatment of Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarian Beards and the Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarians attending the Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarian Beard Barber Beer Bar staffed by Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarian Beard Barber Beer Bar Bärbel, everyone then regularly ate and enjoyed Rhubarb Barbara's delicious Rhubarb Cake while celebrating by drinking Rhubarb Barbara Bar Barbarian Beard Barber's Beer. Cheers!

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     morph (morph@morphnet.de)'s status on Friday, 07-Nov-2025 16:22:12 JST morph

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     @libreleah 😄

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 07-Nov-2025 16:40:28 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     i suppose a properly localised english translation would rename Bärbel to Barbie. oh well. can't take it back now!

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 07-Nov-2025 16:48:11 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     @annehargreaves it's also a subtle nod the original, because Barbier means barber. Barbie!

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     AnneH (annehargreaves@ioc.exchange)'s status on Friday, 07-Nov-2025 16:48:12 JST AnneH

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     @libreleah Depends. You might be wanting to leave a taste of "foreignness" in the story. There is also the question of the associations of "Barbie" in English. It's all down to translator's choices!