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Bill W

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  1. And suddenly homosexual men everywhere were suffering from constipation so their doctor would prescribe a set for them.
  2. If you read or watch old westerns, they often talk about the saloon girls sashaying around to attract business. I'll let you decide if it was business for the bar, such as getting the men to stay longer and drink more, or business of a more personal nature.
  3. I'd never heard of Krampus until a few years ago while watching a program on the Travel Channel. I would imagine that more than a few children were scarred for life after watching a parade with Krampus in it, since he's kind of a scary looking creature who supposedly beats the bad children with birch sticks. Yeow.
  4. Oops, you got me.
  5. Ok, I'll wait with everyone else. 😅
  6. I voted, but I just popped on to see which choice was leading. Unfortunately, it doesn't show the results to date as it used to do. Oh well.
  7. Most commonly used when speaking about babies that are just learning to talk. The word probably came from what happened at the Tower of Babel when God gave everyone a different language so they could no longer communicate and continue building the tower to heaven. After that happened, everyone merely began to babel and no one could understand anyone else.
  8. As long as the person you're trying to elucidate isn't a troglodyte.
  9. Bill W

    Spiders

    Do you think there might be giant spiders on other planets? If you do, I'm glad I'm not an astronaut.
  10. I would like to wish everyone a Merry or Happy Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, a Joyous Kwanzaa. or merely Happy Holidays (I hope I haven't missed anyone since GA is inclusive), and I'd like to wish all of you a Happy and Prosperous New Year (according to the Gregorian calendar).
  11. I've both looked askance at others and had others look askance at me. Go figure. The word first came into use in the late 16th century of unknown origin, although it may have originated from the Old French a escone (hidden), the Italian word a scancio (obliquely or slantingly), or from the word askew (not in a straight or level position).
  12. I wonder if Zona appeared to her mother and told her this on Halloween.
  13. Thank you for the feedback and I'm glad you see Christmas in the same light that I do.
  14. There is, if you consider narwhal a synonym for whopper. A rose, or a whopper, by any other name is still a rose, or whopper.
  15. I think I'll go to Burger King and order a narwhal then.
  16. We didn't get a TV until I was a teen, so I would take the transistor radio that I won playing a punch board and tune into the local radio station to listen to The Shadow, along with The Lone Ranger, Abbott and Costello, Gene Autry, George Burns and Gracie Allen, I Love Lucy, and the various shows that presented full-length plays and dramas.
  17. Where's the list of Myr's Word of the Day?
  18. Maybe Santa now has a magical version of Zoom, so he no longer has to peek in windows.
  19. I'd like to quash, or squash, people that are grumpy over the holidays.
  20. And is the old man offering to take the boy somewhere over the rainbow?
  21. There are a lot of guys that feel the same way.
  22. I've now submitted my choice as well, but I'll work with whichever one acquires the most votes.
  23. or ransacking grocery stores before any predicted weather emergency
  24. And I always thought it was a combination of the meanings of the words 'ran' and 'sack'. To run through and take whatever you could get your hands on.
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