Pretty please? I'm in the mood.

Pig, pig, pig!

Bribe him with a rasher of bacon.

Not that he could be bribed. However, I do like the word rasher and like to drop it whenever it fits in with the conversation.

I feel strongly ambivalent about the word rasher. I love the sound of it but felt betrayed when I discovered that it refers to but one slice. I had previously imagined that someone eating a whole rasher of bacon was feasting.

And a thin slice at that, according to Will Shortz.

So, Connie. What are you on about?

So, Connie. You want we should PM you submissions?

Or, no, wait! You gotta come up with a word first.

>You gotta come up with a word first.

oh, so *that's what you're on about!
|slamming palm-of-hand off forehead|
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|frenetically searching through files..|

|slamming palm-of-hand off forehead| Yeah, it took Faldage's post to clue me in.

I had just then figured it out. Y'all's palm-of-hand-slapping was but an echo of mine own.

Yep, I also only got it after Faldage's post.

Pretty subtle for a hog-callin' contest, if you ask me. Now *that was a good pun, Connie!

Jack Ketch features prominently, if transiently, in Neal Stephenson's new novel Quicksilver (published 9/23). It's set in Seventeenth Century Europe (and other places) and full of authentic, if obscure and dated, words...

I've never seen this before: Author releases new work, the first book of what is supposed to become a trilogy eventually. Dust jacket features not just the names but even the jacket designs of the second and third volulmes. Is it hubris or simply good planning?

> Yep, I also only got it after Faldage's post.

I understood her meaning the second I read Connie's post. That's worrying...

:)

>I understood her meaning the second I read Connie's post. That's worrying...

:)


Is it still more worrying that I did also?

me, three?

>>I understood her meaning the second I read Connie's post. That's worrying...

>Is it still more worrying that I did also?

At least you guys are regulars. I understood and I'm still a whatever-name-I'm-up-to-now.

And I understood her immediately, also, if not tsuwner.

And, Faldo of the sometimes argumentative turn of mind, don't you think calling a little strip of bacon a 'rasher' automatically makes it taste better? A strip of bacon is not very exciting to anticipate--but a rasher? Ah! Now that's something to get up for!

calling a little strip of bacon a 'rasher' automatically makes it taste better

That's the problem; it promises more than it delivers.

it promises more than it delivers.

A rasher statement is hard to imagine, I'm afried.

to mav'

to mav'

To mav; plus, I just noticed his "afried".

I just noticed his "afried".

Y'know? I was willing to give him a grudging nod till you pointed that out. But now…

to mav'

In reply to:

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Y'know? I was willing to give him a grudging nod till you pointed that out. But now…to mav'

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And yet my little "reapin" effort elsewhere has gone completely unnoticed.

my little "reapi" effort elsewhere has gone completely unnoticed.

And a good thing, too.

>"reapi"

Wow, that was fast, it was only there for a few seconds!

So who'all got the other reference in my post, hmm?

>So who'all got the other reference in my post, hmm?

I saw two - "sooooey" - hog calling, and "tsuwm". At least your post drew comment. I used up my neuron coming up with my "reaping & sowing" Halloween pun, and got nada.

Ah, but then you're just some new age namby-pamby touchy-feely "interpersonal" type, so whaddya want, eh? Love ya, Max

something about purple cows?

mood indigo?

Mood Indigo
You ain't been blue; no, no, no.
You ain't been blue,
Till you've had that mood indigo.
That feelin' goes stealin' down to my shoes
While I sit and sigh, "Go 'long blues".


Always get that mood indigo,
Since my baby said goodbye.
In the evenin' when lights are low,
I'm so lonesome I could cry.

'Cause there's nobody who cares about me,
I'm just a soul who's bluer than blue can be.
When I get that mood indigo,
I could lay me down and die.
-Duke Ellington

our dog's name is Indigo. she's(in part) an Australian Cattle Dog, or Blue Heeler...

Well, I saw the purple mood, but as I don't know Mood Indigo, well.. [straight over head e] Although "I'm so lonesome I could cry." rang a bell; wasn't that a song by Willie Nelson or somebody? But, here's something for when the cloud lifts. I have a special fondness for this song: I was probably about 20, when I stayed to help clean up after my aunt-and-uncle's 50th. anniversary party down in Tennessee. My cousin and her husband gave me a ride back to the house, and on the way he sang that song. I hadn't realized before what a genial (ha--his name's Gene!) man he was, and I was so pleased. But I remember being surprised that such an "old man" would know that song--he must have been 45, at the outside!

I Can See Clearly Now
Jonnhy Nash

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.

I think I can make it now, the pain is gone
All of the bad feelings have disappeared
Here is the rainbow I’ve been prayin’ for
It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.

Look all around, there’s nothin’ but blue skies
Look straight ahead, nothin’ but blue skies

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.

[another straight over head e] I have no idea what reaping and sowing have to do with Halloween.

[smacks head] I thought that said Johnny CASH... hehe.


and think Grim...

>>mood indigo?

But that's not indigo, that's violet!

where's Roy G Biv when you need him?!

...purple with rage, feelin' blue, not yellow, green with envy, well red(sorry)...

But that's not indigo, that's violet!

indigo - [blue-violet]The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between blue and violet, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 450 nanometers; a dark blue to grayish purple blue.[/blue-violet] [AHD4]

Thanks for covering my back, tsuwm.I'll take you for my second any day [indigo]mood[/indigo] gets you nothing around here anyway. Actually, Betsy, I typed in purple so it's not even violet either. [/NitpickADay]

*is considering seeing what can be done about going colorblind*



"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

Sorry to hear about your News and the Losing Hues ;)

Max, Sorry we all missed your Halloween pun. I guess you'll have to just grim and bear it.

>Max, Sorry we all missed your Halloween pun.


So am I. Seldom do I really nail a clever pun, and on those rare occasions, they almost invariably go unnoticed, as did this one.

invariably go unnoticed

I saw it, and laughed silently to myself.

*wonders what pun-ishment is suffered for missing it*


"Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled."

they almost invariably go unnoticed, as did this one.

Just FTR, I still don't get this one.

>don't get this one.

Well, to be honest, it was little strained.

The pun would read like this:
"If you misbehave at Halloween you'll soon be reapin' what you're samhain."