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Yes, the same scent markers discussed in this chapter. They are classified into types.

Research has indicated humans can communicate through scent, but this ability operates outside our conscious awareness.

But after it's backed up, will they need a magic plumber? The regular ones are hard enough to find.

Lucas is sending some signals, particularly with repeating he thinks Jubal is handsome. The comment about Lucas and Reid having different ideas raises questions too. What is it about Jubal's neck that he feels uncomfortable with Lucas noticing? What happened to it?

Unome

You have a Labor Party though. It brings to mind funny hats and noisemakers, especially noisemakers.

Pat Paulsen too.

Well, it is Labor Day.

He came to mind first for me also. Leslie Nielsen was so good at it I find myself looking for punchlines in his earlier dramatic roles.

We already knew Gustave was vile, but disowning his twin sons because they were conjoined sinks him even lower, especially considering how he uses Lothar. I'm sure he sees himself as kindly and benevolent for providing employment for Lothar and care at a distance for Luther. We also see how fickle the masses can be and easily swayed by popular opinion. Greyford and Wolner must answer for all their perfidy at some point. I'd say Ed was extremely lucky not to be rounded up too, though this leaves him both homeless and unemployed. The only good out of this is the King trying to address some of the complaints brought before him prior to the planned disaster of The Bloody Parlay. Fran is certainly ambitious. It's hard to see how he plans to leverage nothing into securing lands and a title.

"Take the reds, man."

This was once the sleeping pill and was often used for intentional overdoses. One of its street names is Reds.

Au contraire, these type of tidbits make the English language so much fun to play with.

I did run across another meaning for ream, cream or froth.

I can still see it in my mind's eye on boxes of stationary in the supply room around sixty years ago, though back then it was 480 sheets. I absolutely hated my mother taking me to the office. It only happened when the nanny was sick.

No, ream is correct. Reem was a horned animal in ancient Hebrew literature or in nautical terms, to open the seams of planking to caulk them.

Slang often does enter into proper and common usage.

Ream has a multitude of meanings. One is 500 sheets of paper or in the plural, a large amount of anything. It can also mean to cheat or victimize, or reprimand (as in ream out).

On a positive note, and I always like to look on the plus side, we came up with a happy ending for these characters who have been mercilessly tortured and abused throughout this series. Seriously, thanks for that. Everyone was addressed in turn. There are some questions left as to what the future may hold. Now to the negative. Even at 5,000 plus words, this had a breathless quality to it like a runner dragging themselves gasping to the finish line and then stops to guzzle water before they get there. Sorry, but it's how it struck me.

I had a weird dream which joined this story with another one. It's a sign when stories get in your head.

Jake already knows people can suddenly turn, so why is he being so clueless now?

Well, he grew up as one. In real life, he was more like Lonesome Rhoades, the nasty character he played in A Face in the Crowd.

Yes, she was a real actress to play that part.

I knew George Lindsey who played Goober. He didn't really get along with either Griffith or Nabors and often dreaded going to work. The whole Mayberry happy place was an illusion.

Andy Griffith confessed he found it difficult to write for women.