You had me genuinely laughing at the Mushler Groincat ... thank you!
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Right at the end, he leans in and whispers “Swap you” in Macron’s ear.
Actual fights are frequently settled with a bang, according to the blotter in the newspaper.
“biannual” would be two-year.
“semiannual” is half-year, which is what that was.
Truth. In fact, nipples, and a propensity to elect animal by-products as our leaders, are our only weaknesses. Well, nipples, a propensity to elect animal by-products as our leaders, and a raging (though unjustified) sense of our own adequacy.
Is “emoporium” intentional or a typo? Either way, great word; one imagines a store where all the pallid clerks and customers have their oily hair hanging over their eyes, a slouch, and artfully distressed clothing.
The Fiat I was riding in on a trip from Cairo to Alexandria broke down in the middle of a rice plantation. As the sun set, the reeds at the side of the road began to move, and an army of rats the size of terriers emerged from the field on the right, crossed the road, and (after a few minutes) disappeared into the…
Comparison? Use “than.” eg Bigger than a bread box. Slower than a VW Type 1.
Related to the past or order of events? Use “then.” eg. I was younger then. First drive a slow car fast then drive a fast car slow.
Just a peeve. Sorry.
Seconded.
I applaud the neologistic appellation.
Trying to start my Spitfire on a warm summer day in Georgia (the one in the US) was sometimes tricky ... the automatic choke wouldn’t and I found that there is a reason Lucas was called “the Prince of Darkness,” because the electrical system was, er, problematic.
Still and all, I miss my Spit.
What is the opposite of “new”?
There has always been a dynamic relationship between news as a business and news as a social function. When news organizations stopped being family businesses (the Grahams, the Ottoways, the Hursts, and so forth), the CEOs of these publicly-traded corporations were more concerned about…
Nude woman found in garden.
She remains in a vegetative state.
Do you have to wear the cat ears and belly-baring dress, or is that optional to the experience?
That “non-Ripley” woman was Veronica Cartwright, whose filmograph (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001021/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm ) is amazing in its own right. Bit of trivia: she is the sister of Angela Cartwright, who played Penny Robinson in “Lost in Space” back in the ‘60s.
“North Korea has conducted five precious nuclear tests since 2006 ...”
They really were just cute as the dickens.
Just a note:
The idiom is “free rein” not “free reign” ... it is from when horses were controlled with either tight or free reins, not some mythical era when monarchies were lo-cost.