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Rhonduh Obvious
Thus pushing the bounds of obviousness to a new level of subtlety.
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 oh dopey me. it was early. yeah, that's it. it was early.
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Thus pushing the bounds of obviousness to a new level of subtlety. Thank you. I try. ;-) Consuelo, you go, girl! 
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I try. ;-)
Sometimes I consider my pun blindness a blessing.
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whether you stroke your butter or not(pause for everyone to have their moment)I love it.  Thanks, everyone, for the info/speculation on buttery - that hadn't occurred to me but it makes sense (that it makes food richer).... Bingley, had you really never heard "buttery" used this way before?! What about anyone else? Guess that's the beauty of language - it never ceases to surprise....
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What most people I knew called the "pantry" a small room adjoining a kitchen, my father
called the "buttery" (he didn't pronounce the 'e')
buttery 1
n.,
pl. 3ter[ies 5ME boterie, ale cellar, pantry < OFr, storage room for casks < ML buteria: see BUTT36
1 a storeroom for wine and liquor
2 a LARDER (sense 1)
3 a room in some English colleges where provisions are available to students
but[ter[y2 7but4!r c8
adj.
1 like butter, as in consistency
2 containing or spread with butter
3 inclined to flattery; adulatory
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Now, then, I would have thought the buttery was the place where you worked the churn. Isn't the creamery where you separate/store/use the cream?
(Edit: Or is it the place where you keep the wine containers? For the Malmsey? Did we ever figure out how big a butt was? No, no, I mean in fluid ounces?)
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Speaking of churning, as a boy I was puzzled by Aesop's fable about the two frogs that
fell into a pail of milk. The sides of the pail were so steep and slippery, they couldn't climb
out. One gave up trying, and drowned. The other kept kicking until the cream turned into
a gob of butter, on which he sat until the milkmaid let him out in the morning. I couldn't
believe that she wouldn't have been angry enough to kill him. I wouldn't want to drink milk
fogs had been swimming in.
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You gone drink butter, Dr Bill?
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Maybe I'd invent frog leg chowder. With lots of butter.
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