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Rapunzel: I hope you receive or find the answer to your question. I was about to go to bed, but wanted to read the last post, which was yours. It reminded me of the nursery rhyme:
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,
To see a fine lady upon a white horse;
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
She shall have music wherever she goes.
...just a tangent, but thought you might enjoy this while thinking about cymbals on a traveler's feet, whether symbolic or otherwise...
Oh, and another footnote from Mrs. Byrne:
rasorial adj. -- habitually scratching the ground in search of food.
Bon soir,
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The columns at The Devils Causeway in Ireland (and elsewhere basaltic flows are found) are a product of the lava's cooling. The cracks occur at right angles to the top and bottom of the flow and form columns that are inevitably six sided. The hexagonal cross-section reflects the fact the dominant stresses in the cooling rock are planar, parallel with the flow's surface.
The columns in the cliffs behind Bombo beach at Kiama on the New South Wales south coast occur in a rock unit with the charming name of the "Bumbo Latite"! Latite is a cousin-brother of basalt. A little further south, one of the columns has fallen out of a flow that protrudes into the sea. This forms "The Little Blowhole" - lots of fun to drop things into just as the swell rushes up the underside of the flow!!
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howsabout the CRS version: "plates" (of meat).
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ruby slippersNo...that's Rhuby Slippers around here! 
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If you don't toe the line you'll get the boot.
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Now, if something's useless, it's bootless..
And I just learned something: We're familiar with a pirate's booty, but I didn't realize that the baby slipper was spelled differently: bootee or bootie. So, three spellings for the cost of one on the Scrabble board!
And, since we're got the Achilles' heel mentioned in a post above, we can't forget the elevator boots used in Greek theatre: kothurnos--but my spelling is incorrect here. Can anyone help?
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Rhuby Slippers Personally, being a Londoner, I wear daisy roots  And, at the end of a long day, standing beside at me barrer, me dogs really kill me, and I'm glad to put me feet up!
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bill, I'd forgotten(!) that there is an english word that's sort of related to those 'wit of the staircase' words. afterwit is given by Mrs. Byrne as the locking of the barn door after the cows have gone or, less prosaically, knowledge that is gained too late to do any good.
this seems like a perfectly good word to bring out of obs. and apply to our concept.
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Dear tsuwm: Afterwit has merit of compactness. Latewit might be possible. Josepha was having a bad day with the locking the barn after the cows are gone . Cows are put in stanchions, which close comfortably behind their heads, allowing them to eat the grain that is the enticement to submit to the restraint, while awaiting milking. Reminds me of joke of farmer who was refused marital privileges during spat with wife. One of the cows had stanchion closure defective. Farmer started to urinate in manure trough behind that cow. The sudden noise startled the cow, so she started to back out of stall. Farmer grasped her tail to prevent this. Just then the wife entered barn, and would never accept farmer's explanation of what his two hands were doing.
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Smart too late...
What do you call the sum of a long column of figures?
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