You probably haven't heard "welladay", either. It was last popular in the early 18th century. It was a lament -- woe or alas. I have come across the w...
She was a pipe smoker, actually. The kind she really liked, the pure Virginia varieties, were kind of expensive. We tried to get her to switch to some...
lackaday leads to lackadaisical: lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy. "taking a lackadaisical approach can jeopardize the success of...
I haven't tried coffee and cigars together. In my naive youth coffee and cigarettes seemed like a pleasant combination. I still like the distant scent...
Per @"Banno", "they are not useful. This reinforces the view that, for all the "clever", they are bullshit generators - they do not care about truth."...
"Goofy" is an insufficiently identified feature of GPT3, 4, 5... and AI. Thanks! How much of the "goofiness" is due to the goofiness of the nerds and ...
Passover and Easter are both 'moveable feasts' scheduled ib the basis of the sun and the moon's motion. They periodically coincide. Ramadan is also a ...
Plaque also infests the tongue. One can scrape it off with... something metallic with a dull edge. Despite doing that every day, every time I get my t...
If you are being subjected to a dental cleaning, is the plague of plaque. A new curse: "Thick plaque on all your teeth! Especially if it requires deep...
I like oatmeal, Malt-O-Meal, and millet porridge. Malt-O-Meal (cream of wheat but better) is very easy to make. Oatmeal, even the 1 minute kind, needs...
Rice Krispies. What taste? In fact, many American breakfast cereals are disgusting. Shredded Wheat, Cheerios, Puffed Wheat, Puffed Rice, Kix, Special ...
Actually, even with the brief boil, bagels are not hard to make -- at least, that's what the New York Times said. It's the boil that delivers the chew...
I had squirrel as a kid also, and thought it was good. "Awesome" didn't apply to squirrels back then. I was introduced to toasted bagels with cream ch...
Have a toasted bagel with cream cheese with unidentified flecks to get the taste of squirrel out of your mouth. https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/sho...
Grilled tofu for @"javi2541997", squirrel fried in lard for @"Hanover" https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/04/04/multimedia/04ASKWELL-TOFU1-hzgq/04AS...
You will, we will, because (as The Preacher in Ecclesiastes says), "Anyone who is among the living has hope--even a live dog is better off than a dead...
Given the era, it is a great map! The essential features are in place and sort of proportional. It's a bit surprising that the Greek islands are not r...
Viridian, otherwise known as kelly green. Get rid of it. Bright green isn't philosophical. Maybe "Existential Despair Gray"? Just joking. Benjamin Moo...
Drums pounding, trumpets blaring, choirs singing "Gloria in excelsis TOFU". Angels descend bearing large cubes of wobbling bean curd. The people rejoi...
HAPPILY, there is something you CAN do about it. a) become mindful of how media sucks us in. This isn't always obvious; it can be a subtle process. Bu...
I have done boring work (for pay) and while I was doing it, I kept thinking "Why are we doing this crap?" Computers really should be a) working out th...
Looking forward to Donald Trump showing up and being handcuffed, shackled, and mouth duct taped shut. Tasered too--just for a complete experience. He'...
Too many eggs/too much color. Proper waffles have at least 3 eggs in a small batch. Hash browns=greasy starch. Feed it to the pigs. No bacon? No sausa...
And so should we all! Does the TOEFL exam ask specific questions about grammar (like, "What is the difference between a transitive and intransitive ve...
"Yes, I heard the news, I caught the news, I read the news, I got the news about your train ride." With all that redundancy I am surprised the Aussies...
That's because Russian is an inflected language and English, for the most part, is not. Inflected languages depend on word endings (inflections); unin...
The algae/seaweed confusion was owing to my vocabulary, not to yours. One of the things about English is that it is a very flexible language and the i...
TAKE is one of those English words that has found dozens of uses, and they are all correct. By the way, I'm not quite sure how @"Noble Dust" manages t...
At first I thought "algae" was an auto-spelling-correction artifact, but after research I discovered that seaweed and algae are related. The market cl...
Yes, it is the case that a mentally healthy person may wish to commit suicide (to relieve unbearable physical pain, for instance), but it is a safe ge...
I heard an interesting proposal about school shooting, and maybe other mass shootings. It was developed by a research group at Metropolitan State Univ...
Songs about Sigmund https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C0VbEVNdWk&list=OLAK5uy_m8rFd9OlpngWZ2gD703VW5Ppl9mNzMQ6w&index=35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Our records show that you have never ventured into the BC universe of humors–a wholesome and satisfactory state of affairs. . A song about obeying the...
You are conflating COLLECTIVE DEFENSE with Individual Defense. One nation defending its territory from another nation's aggression requires armaments ...
Of course a gun can be used for defense, provided you are prepared for an attack and in a defendable position. Outside of that, successful defense is ...
Yes, the content. Advanced studies have shown that condom wrappers have almost no efficacy in disease prevention. In fact, some wrappers are so tough ...
I don't know quite what you are driving at, but above you have touched on a peculiar reality of how people interact with the culture. For example, hav...
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