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Here are both Goblins-- Green- and Hob-. Here we have both of the Goblins -- Green and

I expected a little Spider-man fan fiction.

What a terrible word! I can’t imagine that even in the French language this word can roll off the tongue. It’s certainly more indicative of the first definition than it is to declare something to be outstanding. If someone were to use it for the second definition to describe something I had done, I might give ‘‘em a slap and tell them to take it back!

Shenanigan(s) is an excellent word. The word alone is so entrenched in the human psyche (though, perhaps, not so much that of current generations) that any number of deeds could be defined as someone up to something—an undefined but accepted by all description—and the awareness as being indicative of a specific someone’s behavior. Shenanigan is a marvelous (excellent) word.

Most things that end with LY can be said or written using other words, it just takes more words to get the point across. "He walked happily down the sidewalk." can become "It was clear to all that he was happy due to his prancing while wearing a bunny suit because most people don't do that unless they're happy." Also, it ups your word count.

Sadly, the case does not appear to be cut-and-dry as indicated in the article I posted. The defendant’s lawyers are saying that the guilty plea was the defendant’s attempt to escape his haranguing wife, thinking that he would get ten years away from her… and he was good with that. That’s one hell of an escape attempt if it’s true but it doesn’t further the murder case, or offer surcease for the brother.

Is it better to be a nudnik or a noodge?! Or is that a derogatory question?

I've been following this man's story for a couple of years as it appeared in the news over time. All I can say what a faithful brother to have persevered for so long.

Finally, justice for a gay man that was long overdue. Free article from The Boston Globe: Cambridge man finds justice for brother.

Preposterous is a preposterous word when one considers that there is no such thing as posterous or postposterous. It's like having a horse without a carriage without a cart, you'll just end up with an absurd horse.

This is a way-better word than yesterday’s. Pronouncing that despicable word was punishment, and I’m all for pronouncing words correctly.

I wonder if @kbois meant Spanish nouns, after all nouns are the subject of the day.

I don't know if you know but it's legal in Massachusetts, getting high that is, though not so much as to the getting lost part. People tend to report that if it goes on too long.

I have a casual friendship with a man in the museum world who fell into the foppish category, only do to his hair. Of course he knew his style suited him, and it did (very well) at the age I was first introduced to him (now changed as age will do to each of us), but he himself was not foppish in the least (outside of the occasional [okay, more than occasional] movement of his head to remove said hair [dark-brown and hanging in glorious curls] from his eyes and forehead). His baking skills were crowed about by all who knew him (well deserved). It was in Toronto that I first saw The Fifth Element upon release, where he and I sat side-by-side as we watched in stunned aww the glorious spectacle that would go on to become a life-long favorite movie of mine.

When we get to subordinate clauses and predicate nominatives, comma turns into coma. And uncontrolled drooling out the corner of one's mouth... as the head lolls.

I am learning a lot about you people. Please, don't be shy! I've heard that "Nothing comes between me and my Calvins" via Brooke Shields. So, going commando is not just for the dudes.

Betty White in this Saturday Night Live skit is fantastic. I laughed when I watched it the first time and it still makes me laugh. RIP Betty

Here is a review of the Dune 4k UHD release on discs (including extras) by The Digital Bits for anyone who is interested.

Are sure today’s blog shouldn’t have been titled “Word for Word of the Day” just this once?

I don't know how you read any of the series working those hours.

They did make it to the Eye of the World (the dark one’s prison) but the circumstances in the last show of the series differs from the first book. It was indeed the “first battle” of the current age but not the end, in the first book or the series. One might actually call it the first foray. Amazon is playing loose and fast with this series, glossing over relatively important things in the service of their storytelling. In the books, to the best of my recollection, Rand faced two of the Foresaken and one of them (a male who is reincarnated in a female body later in the books) was killed by the Green Man (didn’t happen in the series), and the dark one remained imprisoned. So far the Foresaken have only been mentioned by way of religious symbolism as carved figurines belonging to one of the Aes Sedia warders.

This is Robbie Robertson's 2019 release Sinematic in full, though not in the correct order of the release. The music tells a story, and a difficult one for a tough guy with the dangers and the emotional rewards of affection within its constraints. This is standout music.

Massachusetts's weather gave us a dusting of snow to begin Christmas Eve day, so, I guess, winter is here. Though the snow is all gone tomorrow, what with the freezing rain predicted for the morning turning to steady rain throughout the day. I think Christmas day will be a good day to count my blessings and one of those will be all the connections I've made with the people here on GA, the other is that I don't have to go anywhere. Merry Christmas!

Thanks for the explanation, Myr. I use the browser extraordinarily little on my phone, too small a window, and so I was unaware of the feature.

I noticed in the address bar, PC using chrome - latest addition, that there is a computer monitor icon with a downward arrow. When I hover over it, I get: Install Gay Authors. What the heck is that? An enquiring mind wants to know.