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xenobombulate....................................To malinger
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Dear Faldage: you picked one of the lousy ones. Some of them seem worth selecting. I'm having so much trouble sleeping I'm too punchy to do it today.
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I was thinking of the similarity to discombobulate.
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knismesis ................................... Light tickling make sure they cool down first... and do flourescents enjoy it more? 
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Dear etaoin: There are a few unfortunate people for whom tickling lights cause epileptic seizures. A friend of mine was giving a flying lesson, and the student pilot attempting a landing just before sundown, from east end of the runway. suddenly froze on the controls, and it took application of fireextiguisher as Bulgarian anaesthesia by my friend to enable him to resume control and land the plane safely. The flickering of the setting sun passing through idling prop had triggered an epileptic seizure.
I don't remember the neurologists' name for this.
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Bulgarian anaesthesiais that a slap upside the head?
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Cheap, non-polluting,very effective. Some patients escape fracture of skull. Allegedly commonly used in flying lessons sixty years ago.
Apropos of nothing at all. Reminds me time State Labs flunked safety inspection. All the CO2 fire extinguishers were empty. Turned out nightwatchman, having been instructed to destroy any white mice that had escaped their cages had done so by CO2 suffocation.
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New to me. I can remember seeing champagne bottles using such a closure a long time ago, but doubt they are still used.
agraffe or agrafe
n.
5Fr agrafe < agrafer, to hook < OFr agraper, to fasten < grapon, hook < Frank *krappo (see GRAPE); form infl. by OFr grafe, pointed tool < L graphium, stylus < Gr grapheion, a chisel6
1 a hook and loop, used to fasten armor or clothing
2 a metal bracket used in building to hold stones together
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I've seen no.2 but never knew that's what it was called.
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