BobyY: Thanks in particular for "pierced foot"--I'd forgotten the translation.

tsuwm: And I loved your slew-footed response.

Also, about slew, there's a world of definitions, at least a slew of 'em to study for the marshologist. Here's one retrieved:

slews n : a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends" [syn: tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings]


Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University

Catch a kittenkaboodle or kittenkaslewdle of them at:

http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=slews

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