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the sudden spreading of the thingYes, wseiber, like a sudden coalescence or "crystallization". If you think of crystallization in a laboratory beaker, one moment the solution is completely clear, add another drop, a single drop, and the next moment the solution is completely transformed into color. In the blink of an eye
You'll let out a cry
"It's all crystal clear to me now!"There are only six degrees of saturation separating the invisible world from the visible. 
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In Lancashire, we still have a daily delivery of milk in bottles with a silver-foil cap. In the spring and summer, the milkman puts a flat stone (left nearby) on top so that the bluetits can;t peck through the foil. He drives quite a distance, so uses a diesel truck for deliveries, but plenty of places still have the electric "milk float." I also remember the cardboard caps with a tab, wow - at school in the '40s and '50s the free milk for the children came in 1/3 pint bottles with that sort of cap. It also had a perforated round area in the middle of the cap that you could poke a straw through to drink the milk. As to Faldages original enquiry - if y'all remember what that was  - could the 'heightened awareness' (which is what I believe you were searching for) be termed "altasensitivity" ?
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Rhuby!! Your presence is all too rare these days. I like that altasensitivity although, hearing no objections, I might go for hypersensitivity.
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were called pogs, and had a thankfully short-lived reincarnation as kids' toys of some kind a few years back. I don't remember how it worked, but the little tykes were gambling with them, causing most school districts to ban them. This, in turn, made them even more desireable, of course.
I'll look it up to see what the gambling thing was all about.
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Well, I'll be darned. This claims they were not from the milk bottles, though the concept's identical:
Cardboard money.
My serious addiction to Pepperidge Farms Goldfish Tiny Crackers(R) has enabled me to complete multiple sets of Goldfish milkcaps (collect all six!). Milkcaps, for those of you cowering under rocks, are small cardboard discs with images on them. These are implemented by the global youth in some sort of 90's Marbles game mutant offshoot. They used to be called "POG"s (for "Papaya Orange Guava", the types of bottled juice that originally yielded the game pieces), but of course someone snarfed the trademark to that one. If you can imagine a tiny Goldfish cracker engaging in he-man MTV-type sports depicted on a small cardboard disc, you're just as insane as the marketing board that came up with this idea. These are three concepts that should have never been crossed. Someone should keep track of this heinous trend and make a coffee table book: "Late 20th Century Travesties in Marketing". Anyone interested in acquiring the rarer "Spike!" (armless Goldfish wearing handkerchief and sunglasses, somehow playing volleyball) or "Shot!" (armless Goldfish somehow implements hockey stick) milkcaps should drop me a line to receive a true Christmas Miracle(tm). As an aside (is there anything that I write that isn't an aside?), I enjoy saying the phrase "tiny crackers" immensely and try to work it into conversations whenever possible.
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I enjoy saying the phrase "tiny crackers" immensely and try to work it into conversations whenever possible
Very clever of you to sneak that in at the tail end of your post, TEdRem.
Since you are knackers for crackers, you might enjoy this old standard from Alfred E. Neuman of "Mad" magazine:
"It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsky in snide."
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I thought it might be a garbageman but the name dustman seems so much cleaner and lightweight...so then I thought, maybe, it could have been those men that clean your chimney of dust and such.
Thanks for the info guys.
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That would be a chimney sweep.
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Do the dustmen wear dusters?
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Only in some people's fantasy life.
Though some may wear knuckle dusters when they're off duty.
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Do the dustmen wear dusters?If u dust a dustman off, will he still look dusty? I don't want to get into a dust-up over this, but a chimney sweep can dust more dust than any dustman who ever dusted a dusty chimney. This may seem like a speck of dust to you, but to a dustman, it's his living.
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