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Pretty please? I'm in the mood.
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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.
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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.
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And a thin slice at that, according to Will Shortz.
So, Connie. What are you on about?
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So, Connie. You want we should PM you submissions?
Or, no, wait! You gotta come up with a word first.
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>You gotta come up with a word first.
oh, so *that's what you're on about!
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|slamming palm-of-hand off forehead| Yeah, it took Faldage's post to clue me in.
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I had just then figured it out. Y'all's palm-of-hand-slapping was but an echo of mine own.
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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! 
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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?
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> Yep, I also only got it after Faldage's post.
I understood her meaning the second I read Connie's post. That's worrying...
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>I understood her meaning the second I read Connie's post. That's worrying...
:)
Is it still more worrying that I did also?
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me, three? 
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>>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.
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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!
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calling a little strip of bacon a 'rasher' automatically makes it taste better
That's the problem; it promises more than it delivers.
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it promises more than it delivers.
A rasher statement is hard to imagine, I'm afried.
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to mav'
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 to mav'
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To mav; plus, I just noticed his "afried".
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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'
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In reply to:
Y'know? I was willing to give him a grudging nod till you pointed that out. But now…to mav'
And yet my little "reapin" effort elsewhere has gone completely unnoticed.
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my little "reapi" effort elsewhere has gone completely unnoticed.
And a good thing, too.
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>"reapi"
Wow, that was fast, it was only there for a few seconds!
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So who'all got the other reference in my post, hmm? 
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>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.
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Ah, but then you're just some new age namby-pamby touchy-feely "interpersonal" type, so whaddya want, eh?  Love ya, Max
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something about purple cows?
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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
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our dog's name is Indigo. she's(in part) an Australian Cattle Dog, or Blue Heeler...
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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.
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[smacks head] I thought that said Johnny CASH... hehe.  and think Grim...
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>>mood indigo? But that's not indigo, that's violet!
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where's Roy G Biv when you need him?! ...purple with rage, feelin' blue, not yellow, green with envy, well red(sorry)...
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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]
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*is considering seeing what can be done about going colorblind*
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
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Sorry to hear about your News and the Losing Hues ;)
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Max, Sorry we all missed your Halloween pun. I guess you'll have to just grim and bear it.
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>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.
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invariably go unnoticedI saw it, and laughed silently to myself.
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*wonders what pun-ishment is suffered for missing it*
"Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled."
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they almost invariably go unnoticed, as did this one.
Just FTR, I still don't get this one.
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>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."
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