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By peaceofthesouls · Posted
ever know the definition of straight no it is simple it is a boy who not looking up just keep drawing the straight line on paper -
There is a song from the Civil War period, "Eating Goober Peas." I can remember singing it on long hikes in the Boy Scouts. And then there is this Goober. -
Makes me think of Goober Grape, a brand of peanut butter with grape jelly in it. I liked it, but I think my mom only ever bought it once for us. She always made homemade jelly, which was much better, and cheaper. -
I can usually edit on the fly in my head while reading. And I can also usually get past continuity errors, if the author is otherwise good (though why didn't the editor or beta-reader catch that the character has two different surnames in three consecutive paragraphs?). But if a story is too badly proofed, there can come a time when it appears the author has no real respect for his or her readers, and so I bail out of the story. And then there was that story on Nifty, in which the author -
Fred Astaire and Cary Grant were the two most debonair leading men of their generation. Their understudies were Gene Kelly and Rock Hudson, who were both classy in their own right, but more down-to-earth, ordinary-Joe types.
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This is one of my favorite Dabeagle stories, because it is so sunny, despite its dark moments. It shows men stepping up to the plate and being good fathers, in contrast to so many of Dabeagle's stories, in which parents, especially fathers, are generally sorry excuses for human beings. The antithesis of Family would be Ticking, which is another of my favorite Dabeagle stories, in which the parents and surrogate parents are either neglectful or actively damaging the children in their care, thou
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G & S fans will remember that Pooh-Bah was the "Lord High Everything Else" in The Mikado.
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From etymonline.com: picayune (n.) 1804, "coin of small value," in early use the Spanish half-real, a coin circulating in Louisiana, Florida, and adjacent regions, worth about 6 cents, later a 5 cent piece; probably from Louisiana French picaillon "coin worth 5 cents," earlier the French name of an old copper coin of Savoy (1750), from Provençal picaioun "small copper coin," from picaio "money," a word of uncertain origin. Adjectival figurative sense of "paltry, mean" recorded from 181
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As a note: the 'g' in whingeing is soft, so the participle is generally spelt with an 'e' after it, just as we do with "bingeing." There is a related British slang word, "minging," which rhymes with "singing" and so is written without an 'e'.
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Essentially, restaurateur is French for "restorer," a restaurant being a place where people are restored or refreshed. The English word "restorator" (as in "restorer of paintings") lacks an 'n' as well. "Restauranteur" is used commonly enough in English that it will probably become standard at some point. A similar case is chaise longue 'long chair', which many English speakers read, pronounce, and spell as "chaise lounge." These days, only the most pretentious of us would dare use the o
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