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'Kerbit' is a frog with a stuffy nose.
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"The only other phrase which occurs to me is "my sisyphusian torture."
I think Sisyphus must have been a housewife (isn't that "Sisyphean"?)
As for picking up your room, or the impossibility thereof, I remember reading once in a comic strip someone remarking that the local bank had been held up by four armed men. To which his friend replied, "Well, if they all had four arms, I guess it was easy for them to hold up a whole building."
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And four armed is four warned, so an octopus must be twice as well off.
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Yes, of course, it's Sisyphean, but what I like about Sparteye's Sisyphusian is there's the soundof 'effusion' in it, which is a word I would easily relate to the family's things spread about that must disappear in twenty minutes before company arrives.
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The cops shouldn't have any trouble finding the four-armed
men who robbed the bank.
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... a Polish joke, but not a cruel one: Polish guy goes to an English optician. The optician says "Read the top line of the chart to me." Polish guy says "Read it? I know him!" 
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why a worm farm? It's all cobbles and urban deprivation where I live so no grass allowed, it might threaten the integrity of the squalor  . I'm building beds in my yard, when it stops raining/snowing/sleeting/hailing so I'll need compost and fertiliser. Hence worm farm, oh and also all that least possible footprint gubbins Kerbits been covered. Wesley box is for the community furniture warehouse on the end of my street. You can get furniture, books, and clothes there from about 20 pence. They also build basic computers ( I mean really basic) out of junked hardware. Most of the people who work there are unemployed volunteers. I dunno why it's called the Wesley though, most of the staff are punks, not methodists.
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