2022*1: Lizzie Loves to Read

Ice on our river in 2018, a once in 100 year+ occurrence. It's cold tonight but not this cold!

HERE is where I was in 2021.

READ IN JANUARY
1. Double Share (reread twice)
2. Pleasure of Ruins
3. Damnificados

Into the House in January
1. A Reader's Book of Days - Kindle Daily Deal
2. Bewilderment - Kindle - Thingaversary
3. The Witness for the Dead - Kindle - Thingaversary
4. Berlin Noir - Karen with thanks!
5. Wonder Boys - Kindle - a real deal
6. Ambassador 1A: The Sahara Conspiracy - Kindle freebie
7. Homegoing - Kindle deal through BookBub
8. Star of the Morning: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope ✔ - ABE
9. Abandoned Places - Stasia
10. Summer Light and then Comes the Night - Kindle deal through BookBub and Richard
11. Koh-i Noor - 66¢ Kindle deal thanks to Richard again

READ IN FEBRUARY
4. Towers of Midnight
5. Warlight
6. The Locked Room
7. A Fountain Filled with Blood

Into the House in February
12. Acts and Omissions - Kindle
13. Brick Lane - Kindle Daily Deal
14. City of Incurable Women ✔ - ER from BLP
15. The Great Mortality - Kindle perennial deal
16. Who Speaks for the Damned - Kindle Deal
17. The Devil That Danced on the Water - AMP
18. The Murder of Patience Brook - Kindle perennial deal
19. The Beresford - 99¢ Kindle deal
19. The Locked Room ✔
20. Arcadia - AMP
21. Landmarks - AMP
22. Because of This I Rejoice - AMP
23. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age - Kindle

READ IN MARCH
8. Pawn of Prophecy
9. Whisper of the River (multiple reread)
10. Empires of the Plain
11. The Lincoln Highway
12. Queen of Sorcery

Into the House in March
24. Sorcerer to the Crown - Kindle deal through BookBub
25. Twenty-five to Life - Kindle deal
26. In the Time of the Butterflies - PBS (I somehow didn't catalogue it when I got it!)
27. The Belgariad: Volume Two - AMP
28. Stranger in the Shogun's City - Kindle deal through BookBub
29. Remote Sympathy - Kindle

Open for March Reading


(Just because they're open doesn't necessarily mean that I'm going to get to them this month - *sigh* - nor will I show here the quick little things I'm actually spending time in.)

This group always helps me to read; welcome back, Peggy.

Waited a couple of hours so I hope I'm not too previous!

Welcome back, Peggy!

Happy reading in 2022, Peggy!

Peggy! Hiya Miss Lady Ma'am.

Hope you have a great year of reading!

I see you aren't here yet but Happy New Year all the same. Wishing you an excellent 2022, and I hope to stop in a bit more.

>3 LizzieD: lol, I love that :)

I have faith that you will find a use for post #3 in good time!

Hi Peggy, and happy new year! Last night we watched a bit of the television adaptation of Dance to the Music of Time. Any reference to that work reminds me of you, because Chris and I are forever grateful that you praised the books so enthusiastically that I had no choice but to read them. And then I did the same to him LOL. The adaptation doesn't quite measure up (that would be nearly impossible), but it's pleasant in its own way.

Happy New Year and happy first thread of 2022, my dear Peggy!

Happy New Year from me n Miss Po!

Happy New Year, Peggy, whenever you get here.

Hi, Peggy! Trying to pick up some of my old threads and be more social, as you see. :)

I hope you have a great reading year!

Just swinging by to say I hope you have a good reading year.

Wow! I'm grateful for visitors who are more faithful than I am. Welcome and thank you, Bryony (glad to see you here again!), Liz (I still think of reading the Jacobeans with you but just can't right now), Beth (I miss seeing what you're reading), Lucy (see below), Karen (you know!), Laura (you always make me smile), Megan (I miss you - loved reading with you way back when), Anne (wish we may see each other more often), Lori (ditto ---- we have so much in common), Susan (you always look at things from an original perspective), Richard (*smooch*), Anita (I long to follow you), Jim (our faithful founder), and Paul (you dear one)!

So who would have thought it!?!?! I just thought tonight that this might be my Thingaversary. It is! Lucy's too!! Happy us!!! For me it's #13, and while I can't treat myself to 14 books, I did add an additional three to my Kindle:
A Reader's Book of Days - a Kindle deal for today that I couldn't resist.
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison
I've wanted the last two since they came out. YIPPEEE! Now I just have to read what I'm reading so that I can get to them.

>18 LizzieD: The Witness for the Dead is one of my favorites from last year!

I'm looking forward to it, Susan. I loved *GobEmp* a lot. Of course, I am obliged to say that I loved Hands of the Emperor more with two more than decent, more than competent protagonists. I'm really enjoying *Wheel 13*. Sanderson has caught the tone of the first books of the series that I read with so much enjoyment. It should be grim with the Last Battle approaching, but somehow it's not.

Oh my goodness!!!!! High up in a tree two houses down is a huge bird - owl or even eagle????????I can't tell. Wow!

ETA: My DH looked at it too. (His binoculars work.) He thinks it was big enough to be a young eagle. It was not a red-tailed hawk, which is our biggest one.

An eagle! Hooray! We have more around here than of yore too.

Not sure how I missed your thread until now, Peggy!

>20 LizzieD: Cool beans!

These are wonderful tips! I’ll keep these in mind. I also love listening to audiobooks to keep reading.
>4 PaulCranswick:

Hello Peggy. It is my most earnest wish that you discover a condition of delight and pleasure in your current reading not available to those whose pleasures are not sought among volumes inscrutable.

Many thanks, Richard. One condition of delight will be when I can visit your thread and catch up, scrutable or in-.

Welcome, Adrianna. Hope you find plenty of BBs among the 75ers.

Not much to the thread, Stasia, but you know that you're more than welcome! We found enough feathers (duck?) on our walk by the river today to be a kill by that big bird we saw yesterday. Nature red!

I had a fun reading day: dipped into *Damnis*, *Fenny*, *Wheel 13*, March Violets, and almost 20 pp of *Ruins* (amazing for me!). I enjoy all of them and look forward to more!

>25 LizzieD: Sounds like I need to do some catching up in Pleasure of Ruins, Peggy. Hopefully over the weekend.

Hope it is a great one!

Hi Peggy. Wishing you a wonderful new year of reading. I like your style of 'dipping' into books. I've been doing that recently because of my lack of concentration. I am slowly moving through My Name is Red, listening to Kim, and trying to savor The Sentence which is calling out to be the Only Book.

Love that winter scene that opens your thread. Our backyard pond hasn't frozen over yet. When it does, we get ice skaters which makes me very nervous. The water isn't deep, but if they break through, hypothermia would be a threat.

Here's hoping all is well in your world. Virtual hugs to you, your husband, and your mother. Stay home and stay safe!

Hi, Stasia. You know you can catch me in one session. I'm still doing 10 pages a day most days, so I might finish before February. I really liked "Streets" and I'm really liking "Temples" or whatever the name for all religious buildings is. Right now I'm still in Greece but maybe not as enthusiastic as Macaulay is about reviving the Eleusinian mysteries.

Lovely to see you here, Donna! Just like old times......... If you're able to concentrate on Pamuk, I'd say you're doing well. I remember that Nero Wolfe read by rule: 30 minutes and then change books. I tried it for a week or so, but I don't like being shackled in my reading.
I was just saying to a friend that I need patience for this time when "safe" or "practically safe" means going nowhere and seeing nobody. I trust that it's not forever! Courage for us all!

>28 LizzieD: I will hopefully be caught up to you by the end of the week, I am sure, Peggy. Good to know that "Temples" is as good as "Streets!"

BTW - if nothing else, Macaulay is increasing my vocabulary. First it was "bagnio," and today it is "embosked."

Have a wonderful week!

Hmm. I think I know what "embosked" means. Off to check it out. I was hoping that my copy of the Lady Hester bio would come today, but no. Maybe tomorrow.
I'm off to read my last 3 pages, and I do think I can stay awake long enough for at least that much. (I get ill with RM for things like "the Portugals." I think that she's quoting somebody, but I don't know who, and I think it's tedious and pretentious.)

>30 LizzieD: I had to laugh at that last sentence, Peggy! Sorry Lady Hester did not get here today, but we are not reading it until after Empires of the Plains so there really is no rush, right?

Peggy, just catching up safe in the knowledge that you have no doubt finished those last three pages and will shortly share with us the wisdom they imparted. I hope that at least such wisdom has been revealed and is no longer embosked.

Hello, Peggy, my dear. I dislike structured reading, too, and am wondering if I'll be able to get into My Name is Red enough to get it finished by the end of January for the Asia Authors Challenge. Page 31 of 413 does not augur well.

Hi, Stasia. I know Lady Hester is not up anytime soon, BUT I like to have my desires in my hot little hands.
Hi, Paul! In fact, one of RM's semi-complaints is that archaeologists have cleared all the romance out of ruins by taking down trees and clearing out varmints and sticking labels on everything. She's all for science but sighs from time to time.
Karen, I took more than 31 pages to get into *Red*, but then I think I liked it pretty well. Pearl Rule it if you can.

I'm off to the ENT this afternoon. I would have canceled because of rampant Omicron, but I apparently didn't save the appointment on my phone calendar (I remember putting it in, doggone it and me) and didn't get a reminder in time to cancel. I'll go in, pay, and ask them to call me while I wait in the car and not in his toxic waiting room. I complained the last time I was there; he sympathized but claimed to be helpless. In all justice, I don't suppose he can afford to hire a waiting room attendant to send out people who don't comply with his requests: masks worn well, one accompanying person, no more than 2 children with any patient, etc.)

>34 LizzieD: I like to have my desires in my hot little hands

I completely understand that sentiment!

ETA: New word for today is "mozo."

You've already seen the happy news, so I'll confine myself to: "embosked"? Good goddesses below us. That one's not in desuetude, it's moribund.

Hi, Richard. That's Rose Macaulay for you. She wrote this in 1953 but even so, it's a bit precious. Otoh, it's part and parcel of her pleasure in ruins.

As it turned out, only one person was in the waiting room when I arrived, and only one other joined us before I was taken back. I congratulated the nurse on the scheduling, but it turns out that no-shows were responsible for the non-threatening wait. When I left, they were packed in - way more than the 10 the signage indicated were allowed.

>35 alcottacre: "mozo"???? Where was that? I'm off to research.

>37 LizzieD: It is on p 271 in my edition of the book, Peggy, although it is pluralized.

I'm still reading only *Ruins* and *Wheel 13*. The latter continues to be a return to the excitement of the first few books, and I'm enjoying it without Jordan's short-cuts in characterization that were so annoying. For example, no woman has sniffed in the first half of the book!
I've loved RM's look at the ruins of the British Isle's ruined abbeys, etc., and am now in the far East. I wish I had more time to look at online images of each site. It's the only way I'll ever see them now. That's a bit sad, but I love reading about them: imagination and "picturesque beauty" (with thanks to Dorothy Wordsworth) are the keys to ruin pleasure for RM. I certainly have the former.

Hi Peggy!

You and sniffing and Richard and winking. *smile*

You're just far enough south of us to be getting rain - we're getting sleet and are looking forward to freezing rain and possible power outages. Sigh.

SNOW!!!! At last! We waited all day through nothing, then freezing rain, then sleet. I'm sorry that my mama isn't going to get to watch it fall. I can see it at the street lights.

I hope you don't lose power, Karen. At this point, I don't think that we will. Off to watch a phenomenon that I haven't seen since the day of Obama's first inauguration.

We had a slight chance of snow yesterday and got - nothing. I was so bummed. I love snow! I want snow!

>41 LizzieD: Yay for the snow! We didn't lose power and got 3". I managed to get all the bird feeders filled and I had put the bird bath heater out 2 weeks ago so have happy birds getting hydrated.

SNOW!!!! Ours finally started about 11:15 PM, and I stayed up watching it fall until 2:15. At that point when I started for bed, I turned back for one last look and saw a fox run across our front yard and down the street! Magic! I've seen him/her once before about the same time.
This morning the sun is working on the streets already. We got 2 or 3 inches. I just wish my mom could have seen it fall.

Keep warm Peggy and have a good weekend. x

>44 LizzieD: Yay for snow! Please send some my way :)

>44 LizzieD: a fox sighting! That must have been exciting, Peggy. I'm impressed with your night owl tendencies. I can't stay up late at all.

Fox sightings are the best!

Fox sightings are great, Lucy! I hope I won't be up at 2:15 again any time soon, but if I am, I'll be looking for this little prince/princess.
Laura, I still need the 8 hours of sleep to be human, and 9 makes me a bit of a dynamo. Oh well. I could never stay up late either. When I needed to pull an all-nighter in college, I'd drink coffee so strong the spoon would stand up in it, and wake up to go to the toilet.
Oh, Stasia. I'm afraid that if Texas ever gets snow from NC, we will be in a world of trouble. I'll wish you some though.
Hey, Paul! Great to see you! I just got the wordle in 5 tries, but I can't put it on fb because I'm on Mama's computer, and I don't want to confuse her by having my account up. (Could I put it here???) Wordle 218 5/6

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I am an addict by my second time.

Happy Sunday to everybody! Time to walk with my sweetie!

>49 LizzieD: OMG, it never occurred to me that I could just copy/paste my Wordle results into an LT post. Day made!

We have a family thing going, sharing our results via text every day. It's been fun.

Snow and a fox...happy days (or should I say nights?). We have a fox that lives in our neighborhood. Penny, our rescue dog, loves to play/chase with him or her. It makes me nervous and doesn't happen frequently, but it is fun to watch. They are about the same size and both can run very fast.

Peggy, your thread is good for my vocabulary. Thank you.

Laura, that's funny...... and what a neat thing to be doing with your family! I fear that my beginners luck is about to run out.

Donna, that is also amazing. My fox was running like the wind down the middle of the street both times. I guess you've seen that YouTube video of the gray foxes climbing trees? Well worth watching: Here you go, Donna.

Vocabulary, eh? Nice of you.

I am on a six day roll on Wordle, Peggy and somehow pulled out the word yesterday quite unexpectedly on my last try.

>52 LizzieD: Oh, that fox video is so cool!

I guess I am going to have to join in the Wordle craze - as soon as I figure out what it is!

Have a wonderful week, Peggy!

Nobody told me I could use a letter twice. I finally did it on my last try today, and yahoo! I got it! (I could have saved myself a lot of time had I but known.) I'm 3 for 3, Paul, and waiting for my luck to run out.

Wordle 219 6/6

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Stasia, you'd be great at it. (You may use the same letter twice, but wordle doesn't indicate that.)

Amazing, animals, aren't they, Susan? OH! I see the big bird back in the tree a half block away. He seems to be facing me. Foo. I grabbed the binoculars and headed out for a clearer view. As I got outside, a big shadow went over me, and my DH, who had been walking said that the birds he passed were just clamoring. It has a brilliant white throat, so DH thinks it is a young eagle.

DOUBLE SHARE by Nathan Lowell
Oh dear. I just reread this one late last year, but here it is again. I must be feeling more stressed than usual although I couldn't say why. We're fine. I have friends going through hard times though..... Anyway, Ishmael is maybe a tad more tedious as a 20-something than as an 18 year-old, but I still love him and the day-to-dayness on a space hauler. I'll try to read my other things, but I may have to go one more; or two. Then, I've never reread the last three.

>56 LizzieD: Nobody told me I could use a letter twice.
That tripped me up too, early on. But now you know! I doesn't seem to happen all that often, but just enough to have you second-guessing yourself when solving.

Oh good, more Wordle! It's worked its magic on seemingly everyone.

Happy-Mmmday *smooch*

>56 LizzieD: It is some kind of game then? I am pretty good at those!

Hi, Laura and Richard!!! Always, always happy to see you both.

It's better than some kind of game, Stasia. It's a daily word game. Google *Wordle* and give it a shot. You'll like it.

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I remain happy to be getting it at all. It's sweet!

Hi Peggy!

I got today's, just in the knick of time, first time I've been successful in getting it. Of course, I haven't figured out how to share the results...

Wordle 221 3/6

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I'm thrilled to the core. I never expect to do better! (Lucky! Lucky! Lucky!)

I"m almost through with Pleasure of Ruins too. I should be reading.

Well done Peggy!

Thanks, Laura! I tried to get Mama interested in Wordle today. Even two years ago she would have jumped all over it and been more successful than I am. I'm sad to say that while she tried a couple of words, she really didn't grasp the concept and was not interested. I approach 80 myself and know that 80s are not at all like 90s. 90s are not like 100.

PLEASURE OF RUINS by Rose Macaulay
I had this book on my READ NOW table for a long time before Stasia pushed me into following through. I'm happy that she did! It is a dip in, read a bit, and put it aside book. That's essentially how I read it except that I've dipped in almost every day since December for ten pages or so. I could read it again over a year and happily google pictures of every site that Macaulay mentions. I do love ruins although I'll never see one.
It suffers from being written in its time - early 50s - by an author whose sensibility is of an earlier decade. Stasia found a couple of words that she didn't recognize. Mine that I had to look up was "enceinte" (not "pregnant"), which is the walled or fortified enclosure of a castle. I wonder how much travel she did for the book and how much she had already done. I wonder whether I care enough to find a RM biography to find out. At any rate, I was happy to follow RM from town to palace to castle all over the world and allow my imagination to flower.

Hurray for Worldle fun!! And I am glad the Ruins brought you Pleasure. Happy Thursday.

Hi, Kim! Lovely to see you here!!!! I've just Wordled and had a hair less luck today. Left with 2 choices for the last consonant, I used the wrong one first. Anyway, it's fun!

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>44 LizzieD: A fox sighting is always an amazing thing. My grand daughter's bedroom window faces toward the woods in the back of our yard. She tells me that every night for the last week, she's heard the plaintive sound of a fox crying out as the sound bounces off the trees.

Linda, I've never heard the fox sounds although our neighbors closer to the river have. We always enjoy our brief glimpses of wildlife. Beavers in the river, possums, raccoons, and once, an otter playing in the river.

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WHEW indeed!

"Enceinte" meaning walled or fortified is, um, how to put this delicately, antithetical to the condition of impending parturition. Or so I would've thought.

Anyway, have a wonderful Wordle weekend!

I can't find the connection either, Richard, but I haven't looked in the OED. I'm not doing that tonight, I must say.

Thank you for being such a good friend and checking in on me while I have been sick, Peggy. It is much appreciated!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Hi Peggy!

We got about 1" of snow. It's pretty, and it's forced more birds to our feeders again, which I enjoy watching.

Nothing I've tried has allowed me to share. I did get it on the 4th try today.

Stasia, you know it takes a friend to have a friend. I'm grateful to have you in my life!

Same to you, Karen! Hmmm. When I finish the Wordle, I get a green button that says "share," which copies the puzzle to the clipboard. Then Bob's your uncle. I'm guessing that you don't see that for some reason. Peculiar.

We got a trace of snow overnight with a very brief flurry this morning that I didn't see. It's almost gone. Oh well.

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If I took more time to think, I might get it in 3. My doctor has played twice and gotten it in two both times (yesterday and the day before). I'm glad that a smart guy is seeing to my health!

It copies it to clipboard, and I just figured out that I had to allow Windows to sync my devices to the clipboard to paste. Yay! I can start showing my results on my thread tomorrow.

I will have to figure out how to copy the puzzle results onto my thread. It is a very contagious game and thankfully only available once a day.
The Wordle pandemic of 2022 will be remembered in the annals of humankind as a gentler strain and turning point after two and a half slightly more, erm, difficult years. Though the mortality rate with the new strain was considerably lower than even the Omicron, one noted side effect was heightened hair loss normally occasioned by frustrated tugging as that six and final guess approached.

Have a lovely Sunday, Peggy and I hope I made you smile. x

Ah, Paul. Not just a smile, but a chuckle! (And I hardly ever chuckle!) I too am happy with only once a day. Somewhere in the back of my consciousness is the fact that an archive exists, but I've resisted womanfully so far.

YAY! for sure, Karen! I'll look forward to seeing your daily results.

*sigh* I read so little. Today, small bits of *Wheel 13*, *Damnis*, and the H. Rawlinson that I will officially start in February with Stasia and Lucy. Good stuff! No time!

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>78 LizzieD: it looks pretty, too!

Hi, Laura! Nothing if not symmetrical!

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Interesting Enough Article about Wordle from Smithsonian

DAMNIFICADOS by JJ Amaworo Wilson

My thanks to Tui, I think, for reading and loving the book. I did too and recommend it to anyone who enjoys the humanizing of a mythic story with magical realism, humor, and pathos. Since nobody else had reviewed it, I wrote a sort of one on the book page - more of an extended blurb than a thoughtful review, I'm afraid. (I am about to walk!)

Tower of David, Caracas tells the story of the inspiration for the book: squatters take over an abandoned, unfinished building.

I've laughed a good part of the day away. First, I found my VHS Woodhouse Playhouse collection, the first collection of 7 or so Mulliner stories, introduced by Sir Plum himself and starring Pauline Collins and John Middleton. Mama and I watched one of my favorites, "Portrait of a Disciplinarian." We'll spread them out.

Then, after a conversation with my DH, I also pulled my Pocket Book of Boners: An Omnibus of School Boy Howlers and Unconscious Humor (mine reprinted in 1943). I was remembering my favorite: Test: Tell all that you know about Keats. Answer: I don't know anything. I don't even know what they are.
The effect is cumulative. You read a page or so, and suddenly each one is funnier than the one before it. We'll try not to read too many of this one at a time either.

>83 LizzieD: I love the title, and the idea.

>82 LizzieD: That world, the tower one I mean, has featured in other books I've read and I can't summon a single title to mind! Annoying file clerk, always bunking off when I need them to fetch something.

>81 LizzieD: I was irked by that one, too! I got the letter right after two tries.

Enjoyable piece about Wardle. And this thing would be so great used in foreign-language teaching...four- and five-letter vocabulary words! It's a genius idea.

>82 LizzieD: Adding that one to the BlackHole. Thanks to you and Tui for the recommendation!

Hi, Richard! You are absolutely right about foreign-language learning and Wordle. If I were still teaching, I'd be on it in a heartbeat. As to your file clerk, give him a break. Mine is more and more often off having coffee. I expect I'll end up forced to record a boner every day. (O tempora! O mores!) You'll just have to get the cumulative effect from day to day.
Happy to give you a new addition, Stasia.

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>86 LizzieD: Considering the results of my sending for files here lately, I think my file clerk is off having absinthe breaks not coffee ones. ::eyeroll::

>87 richardderus: I will not say it. I will not say it.

A RANDOM PAGE OF BONERS

In preparation for the channel crossing Caesar built 18 new vesuls, vessils, vesles, botes.

The Romans did not like the early Christians because they would not go to gladiola fights or burn insects before the Emperor's statue.

France was ruled by prefixes and suffixes.

The duties of a vassal to his lord were obedience and chastity.

The chief duties of the lord were to look after the manure and see that it was running right.

The feudal castles were built very weakly because if they were built strong the next day some barbarian might destroy it.

In the ordeal a man was dipped in boiling oil or water. If he came forth unharmed he was released or else called guilty.

The Crusades were a movement to drive the turkey out of Europe.

The Revival of Learning was when the people found out that there were no evils in the ocean, that the world was round, and that if you went out of sight you could get back.

(Not the best page. I'll try for a better one another day.)

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Good Grief, Lizzie! You really think the F wordle would be more likely than the M wordle? (Not to mention the H wordle)

Yay! I'm going to get an ER book from the January batch, the first in a long time. It's City of Incurable Women, and it has the bonus of being short if I don't much like it. I love Bellevue Literary Press though, even when I'm not in love with a particular book.

>89 LizzieD: Congrats on the ER book, Peggy! I hope you enjoy it.

>89 LizzieD: I got it because I'm a big fan of a certain British show about making delicious foodstuffs.

>88 LizzieD: "The Crusades were a movement to drive the turkey out of Europe."

...just...so...incorrect...but funny!

Hi, Stasia and Richard! You two add grace to my thread!!!

I actually got to read some today and did a few more lessons in Italian than usual! GOOD DAY!

More from BONERS

England became Protestant, but the French still believed in God and remained Catholic.

Queen Elizabeth was a fat woman. The demands of the Spanish Ambassador she stoutly refused.

When a northern soldier could not go to the Civil War he sent a prostitute.

What was the cause of the Industrial Revolution?
People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machinery.

The revolution in India is being led by Manhattan Dandy.

The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died, many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this.

General Braddock was killed in the French and Indian war, he had three horses shot under him and a fourth went through his clothes.

The Civil War was caused by Lincoln signing the Emasculation Proclamation.

Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while traveling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope.

Lincoln was shot by one of the actors in a moving picture show.

Casar was murdered by a band of Contractors. (Illustration by Dr. Seuss with a sign, "Destrvction Work by Flaccus, Flaccus, Flaccus, and Flaccus Contractors)

That's better.

>92 LizzieD: Thanks for the chuckles.

Hi Peggy! I love your random pages from Pocket Book of Boners. It reminds me of your collection of student howlers. I'm laughing out loud, especially over 'Manhattan Dandy'.

I hope you have a good day. I'm off to rehab in about an hour and a quarter, and depending on if I do a teensy bit of grocery shopping might experiment with a turkey tenderloins recipe and/or homemade salsa later on.

> 92 Hi Peggy! It is nice to start the day with a laugh (or several). I like the idea of Lincoln being shot by a moving picture actor--early virtual reality? Thanks for sharing!

Welcome, Susan, Karen, and Anne!!!!! I wish I had enough of my own collection for a book, but I didn't teach quite long enough. (I taught quite long enough!) I don't know why the Tudors and the Romans attract so much attention....... I treasure my own "chariot races in the gluteus maximus" and "aqua ducks on the Tiger River" and Queen Elizabeth addressing the troops at Tilbury from her "pedal stool."

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I thought I wasn't going to get this one, and then - there it was!

I had all four letters in the third level. And it STILL took me five!!

*grumble*

I was lucky that I had already eliminated the "p" before I got to fourth try. I can never remember what I used, once I've finished except for the variations of the first words I try.
HEALTH - a change of pace

The spinal column is a long bunch of bones. The head sits on top and you sit on the bottom.

The blood vessels are the veins, arteries and artilleries.

Describe the heart.
All I know about the heart is that it is shaped like a Valentine.

For fainting: Rub the person's chest, or if a lady, rub her arm above the hand.

To rescue a person who has fallen through the ice, take 2 or 3 handkerchiefs and tie them together and then take and shove a boy out to the hole. Throw the boy in the ice with the handkerchiefs and pull them out.

The bones of the leg are the tibia and fibia. When you stretch your legs that is fibia. When you bring your legs back that is tibia.

To avoid auto-infection, put slip covers on the seats and change them frequently, and always drive with the windows open.

Respiration is a handy thing to know how to do, especially if you live far from a doctor.

Care for toothache: Take a mouthful of cold water and sit on the stove till it boils.

A person should take a bath once in the summer time and not quite so often in the winter time.

>98 LizzieD: Snort.

Hi, Susan. Several of those got me: toothache and fainting for sure.

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I am more impressed with myself than I can say. Just ignore me. I'll be O.K.

>100 LizzieD: I came to repeat what I said on Horrible's thread:

I hate you.

Heh. I've never been so happy to be hated, Richard. I'll cherish the moment.

MORE SCIENCE

Water is composed of two gins. Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin, Hydrogin is gin and water.

The difference between air and water is that air can be made wetter, but water cannot.

A magnet is a thing you find in a bad apple.

Our school is ventilated by hot currants.

Explain the meaning of "erg."
When people are playing football and you want them to do their best you erg them on.

Three states of water are high water, low water, and break water.

The earth makes a resolution every twenty-four hours.

The cuckoo does not lay its own eggs.

Polyps swim about the sea when they are young and when they get old they fasten themselves on their relations and live like that for the rest of their lives.

Nitrogen is not found in Ireland because it is not found in a free state.

A therm is a germ that creeps into the gas meter and causes rapid consumption.

When you breather you inspire. When you do not breathe you expire.

(I did science again for the cuckoo and the Oxford comma in the states of water.)

>102 LizzieD: Sounds like the water kid hangs out with surfers. Polyps we've known. Taking a breath and hoping not to expire!

‘Morning, Peggy!

>100 LizzieD: I said it on my thread, and I’ll say it here – Yay! Brava.

>102 LizzieD: Jenna is an Oxford comma girl. I didn’t even know that the comma after the last in a series of things was called an Oxford comma until we had a discussion about it one day and I realized that I had been using it, unnamed, most of the time. Now I use it all the time and know what it is! How was I not taught this in K-16?

I hope you have a wonderful day, my dear.

>92 LizzieD: >98 LizzieD: & >102 LizzieD: Love those, Peggy!

Hi, Karen! I've used the Oxford comma all my life too, but I didn't know that it was optional (!) or had a name until I was a young adult reading about writing for the NYT, I think. In the 70s at least, they required it.
Thank you for compliments and wishes! I was lucky in my choice of first word again today (agile), and then I thought a bit.

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Hi, Paul! I'm shameless! It's a fun way to get visitors to a moribund thread since I'm certainly not reading much these days. I'm about 140 pp from the end of *Wheel 13*. This is a good one although I'm not completely convinced that it's worth the journey to get this far.

>106 LizzieD: I cannot let that pass, Peggy!

There is NOTHING moribund about your thread and it is always a delight to visit.

Congrats, Peggy! I've added your start word to my list of start/second words compiled from Richard's thread. Whatever it takes, eh?

>100 LizzieD: Congratulations! Your comment after the Great Solve was almost as chuckle-inducing as the Boners you’ve been posting.

Thank you for some good laughs to counteract the gloom and doom of being snowbound for almost four days now. The sun is another mood brightener.

Have a good weekend, Peggy.

>106 LizzieD: I just started Wheel of Time 11, Peggy. Looking forward to your thoughts about Wheel of Time 13.

>106 LizzieD: Towers of Midnight is my favorite of the later books for sure. I enjoyed the journey the several times I re-trod it, but I was not reading for new experiences but the support of known ones. I don't think I will ever re-read A Memory of Light though I'm glad I got through it.

>106 LizzieD: Ha!
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*smooch*

Richard: HA! *smooch*

Susan, you are answering my question about whether I want to dive right in to Tarmon Gaidon. I don't much think so. I've read the first 3 several times, but this is the only successful progress I've made.

Congrats on getting through *Wheel 10*, Anita! We had to do it, but it was hard going.

Oh, Donna! "Great Solve" is funny!!!! I'm betting that the snow that has you locked in is more than the 3 or 4 inches that would stop everything here. Hope you can get out safely soon!!!

Hi, Karen! I need to visit Richard's thread and pick up a hint or two.

LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE

The leading character in The Merchant of Venice is Skylark.

The two genders are masculine and feminine. The masculines are divided into temperate and intemperate and the feminines into frigid and torrid.

Since pro means the opposite of con, can you give me an illustration?
Progress and Congress

The chief value of Silas Marner is that it teaches people how to propose.

(From an essay on "A Ramble in the Woods")
A Ramble is an animal with four legs , some of them very fierce.

The clown in As You Like It was named Touchdown.

The proof that the witches in Macbeth were supernatural is that no one could eat what they cooked.

Gareth rode along a high cliff and fell into the jaws of a yawning abbess.

- and Caesar, stabbed with many wounds, felt them not. His chief wound was that of seeing his friend Brutus among the traitors, and so dying, he gasped out the words,
Tee Hee Brute."

>113 LizzieD: I'm sure Gareth deserved to be a late night supper.

Peggy, HELLO!
How could I have not posted here after all this time? (Rhetorical question).
I have lurked my head off on lots of thread and simply enjoyed the journey. Not feeling like I needed to post.

Anyway, I was reading on Lucy's thread that you are also reading Empires of the Plain, yes? That conversation has been interesting to follow. Adkins book is on my request list at the library now. I blush to admit I'd never heard of this cuneiform inscription in Persia. That's like saying one has never heard of the Rosetta stone, if I understand correctly (although I did try to plough through Dolnick's, The Writing of the Gods).

>113 LizzieD: Hah! One of my colleagues sent me a paragraph about how Gertrude Stein was Hamlet's mother. :) Students do provide endless amusement.

Oh, Beth! That's a true original, and I can't even ask, "How on earth????" Glad to see you!

Sandy, YAY! I don't blush to admit that I had never heard of Rawlinson nor of his first understanding cuneiform. I think that this monument should be as famous as the Rosetta Stone, isn't, and correcting that ignorance was part of Adkins's intention in writing the book.

>114 quondame: Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh! Those abbesses got around. I'll get to the one associated with Henry VIII tonight if I can find it. I'm pretty sure y'all have read it before. I didn't think that this was an extremely funny page, but I posted it anyway.

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Another sort of squeaker......... Again, I had a choice of consonants at guess 4 and chose the wrong one.

Oh boy, another Wordle freak. My spousal unit and several friends are mad for it, and I have been slowly succumbing. I usually get the word on the 4th. Never better so far, and only a couple of times at 5th. The letter twice possibility is a bit fiendish.

Double letters are fiendish. This time I knew them as a possibility, and since I had eliminated the most common letters, they made sense.
Succumb, Lucy, succumb. You know you want to.

DEFINITIONS

A skeleton is a man with his inside out and his outside off.

S.O.S. is a musical term meaning same only softer.

A Soviet is a cloth used by waiters in hotels.

A spinster is a bachelor's wife.

Transparent means something you can see through, for instance a keyhole.

Aesophagus was the author of Aesop's Fables.

An anachronism is a thing that a man puts in writing in the past before it has taken place in the future.

An armadillo is an ornamental shrub.

The catacombs were where the early Christians lived when they were put to death by Nero.

Catharsis is a psychological means of stopping a catarrh. It illustrates the influence of mind over body.

A caucus is a sort of big parrot that has been taught to swear.

Caviar is the eggs of a surgeon.

Celibacy is a disease of the brain.

The Dauphin was a rare fish that used to inhabit the Arctic Circle in the middle ages.

(Now you know.)

>120 LizzieD: Some of these are truer than the truth.

"Celibacy," Susan?

Today Luck is the Lady for me! My guess was simply to narrow down what to do with the "l" and the "r." I'll take it!

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>122 LizzieD: ...aaaand back to Not Speaking to the Wordle-ator.

It took me five.

You should, however, go take a gander at your expertise's cute merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/book-riot/

Oh, Richard, allow me something! (Always, I realize that I'll hit a bad streak.)
Thanks for the link! Are you surprised that the stuff creates no great need in me? I don't think it would even if I were not constrained to relative simplicity. I'd rather have more books!

Meanwhile, I'm trying to think whether I don't own a copy either of Love Marriage or Brick Lane. I don't have either catalogued here. Not worth a trudge across the street in the rain to check the shelves, but *BL* is a Kindle deal today.

>124 LizzieD: I'd rather have more books!

Heh...I would, too...but the fact they all spell "books" is what made me do more than simply curl my lip and pass on by.

Brick Lane doesn't give me a joyous feeling, read it back in the Aughts, but I don't go for birthing in general & there was a lot of it in there.

>125 richardderus: I did like that about them! Lucy gave me a "books" coffee mug a few years back, and I think that's satisfied my craving in that direction.
I did put Brick Lane on my Kindle. I've read your thoughts on the birth process in general and have some inkling where you're coming from. I found Brixton Beach that I thought was the Ali. Otoh, I have a big pot of vegetable soup simmering away, so I'm pleased with the day. --- Just checked the soup which is boiling away on my mama's electric stove. Now I would love and adore to be cooking with gas.

Ooo a kettle o'soup sounds delish. I'll have some beef noodle for my supper tonight now that I'm thinking of it.

>122 LizzieD: That'll do. I think "anachronism" was spot on.

>120 LizzieD: Some of these, in addition to being wrong, are extremely creative. I guess if one doesn't know the answer, respond with confidence anyway?

>129 AnneDC: I guess if one doesn't know the answer, respond with confidence anyway?
Indeed. This fun-silliness takes me back to student days at Uni.
I had 2 part-time jobs (to eke out a small scholarship). One was as a lab assistant which included grading the quizzes and term papers for first-year Intro. Biology (there were 4 of us with the job for first years' classes).

There was a legendary best answer to the following question ~
"How does Lightning contribute to the Nitrogen cycle?"

The answer was legendary because it had the entire room of student employees in hysterical laughter. So the question/answer was posted on the bulletin board with a challenge to "find one better than this". In the years I was there, the answer to the Nitrogen cycle question was never bested.

Answer: The lightning scares the shit out of the cows.

No, I did not make this up. And, this was 1967, so maybe humour was, you know, different in those days?

>130 SandyAMcPherson: Priceless, Sandy! I think they'll never top that.

Hi, Susan and Anne! I love these too. Richard, I'm still warm from our soup. Hope yours was equally good.

PERSONALITIES (a short one because I'm tired)

Pilate was one of the procreators of the Jews.

Will Rogers led the settlers of Rhode Island.

Shakespeare was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday.

Ptolemy was a greek scientist who discovered the cause of ptomain poisoning.

Robert Louis Stevenson got married and went on his honeymoon. It was then he wrote "Travels with a Donkey."

Queen Victoria was the only queen who sat on a thorn for sixty-three years.

Booth Tarkington was the assassin of Lincoln.

President Wilson firmly believed in open convents openly arrived at.

Cardinal Wolsey died on the back of a mule, while riding to his own confinement.

Yom Kippur was a general in the Japanese army.

Polonius was a mythical sausage.

>131 LizzieD: Well, Queen Victoria certainly looked as if she had!

So she did, Susan! I was about to remark on her padding, but I have enough of my own to know that it doesn't make any difference and to be in no position to pass judgment. I have a fond place for Ptolemy/ptomaine and RLS, his honeymoon, and the donkey. I thought this was a good page, but I still can't quite see Polonius, the mythical sausage.

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Phew! Indeed. I say, "Whew," though.

>133 LizzieD: I'd gloat a bit, but it is your thread so I'll behave.

>131 LizzieD: Polonius...sausage LOLOL

>130 SandyAMcPherson: I love that, Sandy, because it's just true as well as the wrong answer.

Richard, I admire and appreciate your restraint.

Please explain Polonius ... sausage.

I'm happy to have my ER book from the January batch here so soon. It's another Bellevue Literary Press offering. I'm always, always attracted to what they publish.

GEOGRAPHY

The people of India are divided into casts and outcasts.

Lipton is the capital of Ceylon.

The population of London is a bit too thick.

Persian cats is the chief industry of Persia, hence the word "purr."

The Mediterranean and the Red Sea are connected by the sewage canal.

New York is behind Greenwich time because America was not discovered until very much later.

Henry VIII had an abbess on his knee, which made walking difficult.*

Certain areas of Egypt are cultivated by irritation.

Zanzibar is noted for its monkeys. The British Government lives htere.

A water shed is a shed in the middle of the sea where ships shelter during a storm.

Melba - where Napoleon was imprisoned.

The Rialto was the business end of Venus.

*I'm not sure why this is GEOGRAPHY.

>135 LizzieD: Ah, I've something in common with Egypt, being cultivated by irritation...

We really do need more water sheds.

Agreed, Susan! I wish they had mentioned the toast that Napoleon ate on Melba. Anyway, that was the Henry VIII item that I was looking for.

Oh, Lucky Me!

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>137 LizzieD: I got it in three, too! (Careful though, Peggy, them Brits is all riled up cuz they ain't get no "u" in it.)

>135 LizzieD: "Polonius" is funny to me because 1) he's famously a man, so "sausage" is funny and b) "Polish" sausage is clearly what the kid was thinking of. Double funny!

Thank you kindly for the Polonius explanation, Richard. DH was thinking Polonius was close to Bologna/ius, so I guess it's a guy thing. I wasn't thinking anything at all except trying to reconstruct Hamlet (Omelet, Mince of Denmark in my used college text) for a clue. I'll let it go!

I was over with you, Richard, and saw that. I also saw that Wardle had decided to go without the "u" in order to make more words available.

This was a pretty nice day, made pretty nicer by the addition of a couple of Kindle $1.99 deals: The Great Mortality and Who Speaks for the Damned. I'd like to get back to St. Cyr for fun.

BIBLE, RELIGION, and MYTH (It was inevitable.)

When David slew Goliath with a catapult the age of missile warfare commenced. This incident drove the first nail into the coffin of Feudalism.

If David had one fault it was a slight tendency to adultery.

Little is known of the prophet Elijah, except that he went for a cruise with a widow.

Sarah was Abraham's half-wife, otherwise mid-wife, sometimes called columbine.

The synagogues were rich Jews who didn't like to work and believed in Christ. - D. A. L.

Before a man could become a monk he had to have his tonsils cut.

Christianity was introduced into Britain by the Romans in 55 B.C. - M. T. B.

Those who did not accept the Orthodox faith were hereditary.

The evils of Mohammedanism were that they believed in thirst and Mohammed was only a lesser profit. - Ralph W. Penniman.

Buddha is worshipped chiefly in Budda Pest.

Another well-known Greek God was Appolinaris.

The Gorgons were three sisters that lived in the islands of the Hesperides somewhere in the Indian Ocean. They had long snakes for hair, tusks for teeth, and claws for nails, and they looked like women only more horrible.

Solomon had 300 wives and 700 porcupines.

>140 LizzieD: Ah, so my issues are hereditary!

Could be, Susan. Could be. Meanwhile, I see that I could have been a monk since my tonsils were cut when I was five.

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>142 LizzieD: ...and I couldn't be a monk cuz I still got mine!

Took me five: I prefer causes to pauses. Re: your second spoiler, that was an unusual factor and, once I considered it, I got the last four in order at once.

Don't read my review just posted today. You'll hate the book A LOT.

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Richard, you think I'd hate Jawbone? I don't think so, but I'll find out when it becomes a deal! Great review!

SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND HEALTH

The stomach is a bowl-shaped cavity containing the organs of indigestion.

The only sure way of detecting tuberculosis is by X-Ray or with a Horoscope.

Lack of vitamin A is not as bad as lack of vitamin B which in turn will not have so many bad affects as will the lack of vitamin C and so on down the alphabet.

The spinal column is a collection of bones running up and down your back and keeps you from being legs clean up to your neck.

In case of asphyxiation apply artificial respiration until the patient is dead.

The organs of respiration are the nose, the pynx, the larynx, the treacher, the brunk and the wind bag.

What are the two characteristic differences of the anatomy of the infant and the adult?
The infant's anatomy is straight and narrow.
The adult's is protruding and wider.

A skeleton is a man or person without meat or skin.

A thorax is a bony cage containing the heart and lungs. It first expands and then expires.

The food goes down the food pipe and the Efflougis shushes it off from going down the wind pipe.

The digestive juices are the bile and the sarcastic juice.

>144 LizzieD: Plenty of that juice to go around!

Hi, Susan. I got my share for sure! I'd like to keep it out of my pynx, treacher, and brunk though.

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Hi Peggy!

I got Wordle in 4 today, but I've had several days of getting skunked and quite a few just squeaking by with 6.

I hope you're having a good day. I Have Made The Turtlecake. It is in the oven. 🤞

>146 LizzieD: Wouldn't we all!

Hi, Susan. Here's tonight's fix for you. I enjoy them a lot.

DEFINITIONS

The Salic Law is that you must take everything with a grain of salt.

A sinister is an old maid.

A taxidermist is a kind of thick fog.

An unbridled orgy is a wild horse.

Acrimony, sometimes called holy, is another name for marriage.

The Acropolis was the she-wolf that nursed Romeo and Juliet.

Ali Baba means being away when the crime was committed.

Ambiguity means having two wives living at the same time.

Ambiguity means telling the truth when you don't mean it.

An antidote is a funny story that you have heard before.

Explain the word "asset."
When you are making out an account you subtract the smaller from the larger amount. That is called
assetaining the difference.

A blizzard is the inside of a fowl.

>149 LizzieD: We are all guilty of delivering antidotes! Poor fowls!

Hi, Susan. More and more! I love my antidotes and am not showing much mercy with them already. Heaven help my friends and family if I'm around in another ten years.

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I'm happy. I took more time between 2 & 3 and thought of it!

>151 LizzieD: Oh look. The Wordle-ator strikes again. I'm about ready to add you to the ranks of Supervillainesses with Nina.

*grouch*

The definitions are priceless as usual, so points for that.

Ah, RIchard. I take what I can get. *smooch* for your *grouch*

LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND THE ARTS

For a time Emerson was a pastor of the Second Utilitarian Church.

The three greatest artists of the Renaissance are Angelo, Leonardo and Archaepelego.

Medieval cathedrals were supported by flying buttocks.

An abstract noun is one that cannot be heard, seen, touched, or smelt.

An interjection is a sudden explosion of mind.

A metaphor is a suppressed smile.

Figurative language is when you mean a rooster and say chandelier.

A proposition is for a country to have no alcolic drinks in it.

A metaphor is a thing you shout through.

Give an example of collective noun.
Garbage-can.

A sentence that does not depend on any word in the sentence is not subordinate but inordinate.

Gender is the destruction of sex.

When a word gets out of date it is termed "dead" and so gradually a language is built up.

I have to fly my buttocks to the Utilitarian church!

>154 LizzieD: Gender is the destruction of sex.

...hence today's trans rights movement...

An interjection is a sudden explosion of mind.

Yeup.

Medieval cathedrals were supported by flying buttocks.

...suddenly my memories of Chartres seem so bland...

Hi, Richard and Susan, true fans both. I can't get beyond the rooster/chandelier. So silly, but I laugh out loud every time I see it.
I wish I had a memory of Chartres. I'd be pleased with bland, actually.

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Lucky word choice continues. I used the two I had lined in mind. Boom! An interjection.

Hi Peggy! Happy Sunday. Gentle hugs for your ma, kind regards for your DH, and many fierce hugs for you, my dear friend.

>154 LizzieD: … flying buttocks. LOL.

>157 LizzieD: Brava! It took me 4.

>157 LizzieD: You haven't been subject to Rock-A-Doodle by the whims of your small ones I take it? I've been chandelier'd out!

>159 quondame: No small ones here, so I am completely ignorant of Rock-a-Doodle. I have to say that more than once seems dire.

TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT by Robert Jordan

This entry in the massive series returned me to the pleasures of the first books without the annoying shorthand that Jordan used for characterization. Our main characters are finally young adults who mostly accept members of the other sex as fully human. That's a relief! (I'm still flummoxed at Jordan's ability to make us care for his characters while not providing any characterization.) Lots of action happens with lots of tidying up so that everybody is ready for the Last Battle. I think I'll wait a bit before I take it on.

Whew.

HISTORY

The king of England has little political power. In fact, he is just the blockhead of the government.

The pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. They were greeted by the Indians who came running down the hill rolling their war hoops before them.

Tell about the hardships of the Pilgrims.
They came over to America on hardships.

The Pilgrims came to this country to worship as they saw fit and to see that everybody did the same.

Name a noted foreigner assisting the colonies in the Revolutionary War.
God.

The English planted colonels when they came to America, some of which grew rapidly.

Uncle Tom's cabin was a station on the under-ground railway.

The Emancipation Proclamation said that all slaves were to have a holiday on New Years.

What were Cleveland's ideas on civil service reform?
He did not believe in removing good men from office to put in Democrats.

What has the government done to protect the Indians?
Put them in reservoirs.

The seats of Senators shall be vaccinated every six years.

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Hi Peggy!

>161 LizzieD: The Pilgrims came to this country to worship as they saw fit and to see that everybody did the same. Out of the mouths of babes...

>162 LizzieD: We both got it in 4!

Yay for us!
I was sure that somebody would immediately pick up on the Pigrims' worship. (I would like to vaccinate some Senators in their seats.)

>160 LizzieD: Yay! Another one down!

SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND HEALTH

Why do we not raise the silk worm in the United States?
We get our silk from the rayon. He is a larger animal and gives more silk.

Geese is a low heavy bird which is most meat and feathers. Geese can't sing much on account of the dampness of the water. He ain't got no between-his-toes and he's got a little balloon in his stummick to keep him from sinking. Some geese when they are big has curls on their tails and is called ganders. Ganders don't have to sit and hatch, but just eat and loaf around and go swimming. If I was a goose I'd rather be a gander.

A good milk cow can be told by her rudder.

One of the by-products of cattle-raising is calves.

In the spring the salmon ascends fresh water streams to spoon.

An example of animal breeding is the farmer who mated a bull that gave a great deal of milk with a bull with good meat.

The sturgeon is a cartilaginous gonad with a long nostrum.

The flower has five parts, sepals, pedals, antlers, pistil and trigger.

>166 LizzieD: Now that's not kosher!

>160 LizzieD: That sounds promishing, Peggy.
I am waiting for book 12 to arrive at my library, it has to come from an other branch.

'Morning, Peggy!

>166 LizzieD: The sturgeon is a cartilaginous gonad with a long nostrum. That one got a belly laugh out of me.

I solved Wordle in 3!

YAY, Karen........ and BEHOLD!

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Do you think we're getting the hang of this? I keep expecting to be completely stumped.

I have to say that "sturgeon" and "Keats" are the two that have stuck with us over time.

Aw, Susan. I don't make them up; I just report them.

Anita, I think you'll be much happier in #12. As I say, #13 reminded me that I've pursued the *Wheel* for so long, not because I'm stubborn (DH calls me "Adamant") but because it's so much fun.

By George, I do think we're getting the hang of it. Congrats.

Peggy, I rarely use the "favorites" feature on LT, but I have favorited (if that's even a word) all of the lists of humorous definitions you've posted. I've always enjoyed malapropisms and now I have a collection that carries the idea of a misused word even further. I thought the Pocket Book of Boners would make excellent Christmas gifts...until I saw how pricy it is on Amazon. $145...seriously?!? It sounds like you have a treasure. Thanks for all the chuckles.

Hi, Donna! I'm really glad that you are enjoying the Boners book. I think I picked it up at a library sale for a dime or something like that --- a really lucky find. Somebody should reissue it!
Heh, heh, heh, sister wordle-ator Karen!

HISTORY

The French Revolution was caused by overcharging taxies.

What is the difference between the constitution of the year three and the constitution of the year eight?
Five years.

Napoleon dispersed the rioters with a whiff of grape fruit.

The Britons had a strange and terrible religion called the religion of the Dudes.

Harold mustarded his men before the Battle of Hastings.

Who signed the Magna Carta?
I didn't.

When John de Nottingham was asked to work magic against the mayor of the city he made a wax image and put a wench in the head of it. The mayor went crazy. Then he put a wench in the heart. When they looked, the mayor was dead.

Cardinal Wolsey soared up like a rocket and came down like a brick because he tried to sit between two stools.

Henry VIII by his own efforts increased the population of England by 40,000.

Ya gotta watch out for those Dudes, especially if they are named Henry.

Oh, Peggy the Wordle-ator?
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I think this one was very peculiar.

You got me, Sir Richard. I thought that they saw me coming with this one........ I actually considered auk after the second word, but didn't think of it again after I got the l. There's always tomorrow.

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Hi, Susan. Maybe the Dudes ate grape fruit with mustard?

HISTORY (short tonight --- sorry)

The Monroe Doctrine says that all foreigners must leave their ammunition at home.

Explain in your own words how the French people solved the problem of stopping the sand dunes from destroying the farm crops.
The French passed a law prohibiting all sand dunes.

Tell how a city purifies its water supply.
They filter the water and then force it through an aviator.

A Communist is either a republican or a monarchist who votes for the one opposite to the one he is.

(Somebody should have spanked the teacher who wrote the question about the sand dunes.)

>178 LizzieD: Those young brains are strange, strange places.

Hi Dear Peggy. I'm thinking of you and stopping by to say hello.

Much Love

PHEW!!! (I actually had a strategy after the 4th trial: think of a word that included the other possible consonants.I chose 'vapid' and eliminated everything I had thought of but the K.
I'd love to know how other people got this one.

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Believe me, Susan, I know about the weirdness of adolescent brains. Part of it, I found, was due to limited vocabulary and misunderstanding words. A larger part is just the weirdness of adolescent brains.

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WARLIGHT by Michael Ondaatje

I like Ondaatje, having now read this one and The Cat's Table, which I liked a bit more. It is a privilege to read his well-wrought prose. The novel holds together for me.
Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel are left as mid-teens with a friend of the family whom they don't know when their parents go to Singapore for a year for their father's work. They make their separate adjustments as well as they can. Nathaniel takes part time jobs, has a mysterious girl-friend, and goes on petty criminal exploits on the Thames with one of the men who now make themselves at home in his parents' house. Then, mild they find their mother's trunk in the attic with all the stuff she had packed so carefully for Singapore.
The rest of the book records Nathaniel's efforts to understand his mother Rose. Nothing is very clear, and in that, the reader participates in Nathaniel's processing of facts and fantasies. Rose emerges in the atmosphere of warlight, which is not light at all. Nathaniel is granted some closure.
(I don't remember noting this writing habit from *Cat's*, but several times Ondaatje makes a statement of fact that is a sudden, complete revelation to the reader. The first couple of times, I flipped back to try to see how I had missed it. Not finding an explanation, I'd give up and read on, only to find the explanation a paragraph or a page or so later, supplied in a flashback. I learned. I'm not sure what this accomplishes - just noting it for future readers.)

Hi Peggy, I got tired of Ondaatje somewhere in the Aughts and never got over it.

The teacher who made that sand dune question part of a test is the problem there.

Hi, Richard! Always happy to see you here.

DEFINITIONS

A chimera is a young girl whose morals are not very good.

Christian Science is when they cure you and you ain't there by thinking good things about you even if there ain't any.

A cortege is what you buy for your girl when you take her to a dance.

Decalcomania is a particular form of insanity.

Identify Dido
Dido means the same, and is usually represented by Dido marks.

Facetious is a term used to denote the followers of Mussolini.

Federal Reserve is a reserve where the federal employees hunt wild game.

Heredity means if your grandfather didn't have any children, then your father probably wouldn't have had any, and neither would you, probably.

A humorist is a writer who shows us the faults of human nature in such a way that we recognize our failings and smile - and our neighbors' and laugh.

An illiterate child is one whose parents are not married.

Every girl wants a good cortege! And that goes double for Dido.

Too many good ones here to italicize just one, but I especially like Dido.

I hope you have a wonderful day, my dear.

Hi, Susan and Karen! I actually got "Dido marks" on a Latin quiz. (Double for Dido heh heh heh) Both of you have wonderful days!

O.K. I confess. I'm really, really proud of this one!

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>187 LizzieD: *silence*

...so Limbaugh's followers are Dido-heads...ooohhh

Heh, Richard! Meanwhile, whether you want it or not, *smooch*

BIBLE, RELIGIONS, AND MYTHS

Hegira was an eastern queen who invited the barbarians into the Empire.

In Japan most of the people are called confusion and the religion is called confusionism. The smallest religion in the world is confusionism.

Alexander the Great entered Troy disguised as a wooden horse.

Venus is the goddess of love in the broader sense.

Hymen was the god of Chaos.

A Harpy is a virgin from the waist up.

In the Olympic games they ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits and threw the java. The reward to the victor was a coral wreath.

King David was killed by Uriah Heep, the husband of the Queen of Sheba.

Children were teasing Elisha and he told them if they kept on doing it he'd tell the bears to eat them up, an' they did, an' he did an' the bears did.

The men who followed Jesus about were called the twelve opossums.

The serfs were attached to the soil and when it moved, they moved with it.

(I'm pretty sure that confusionism is a very large religion.)
(Also, breakfast had to be pretty awful at the ancient Olympics.)

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>191 LizzieD: It took me four...and I only got it that fast because I used "skill" for #4 because it's what I ain't got and then laughed, "bet it's swill cause that's what it's a load of!" and....

'Morning, Peggy!

>190 LizzieD: What fun. My favorite, hands down, is The men who followed Jesus about were called the twelve opossums.

I think I've got one of their descendents in my yard!

>191 LizzieD: Good for you, RD! I wasn't that brave.

>192 richardderus: Oh yeah! We had a pet "Poss" that hung out in our yard. Of course, Poss didn't know he was our pet. I'm fond of David's death because of Dickens - a little learning is a dangerous thing. And speaking of that, Mama was watching "Brain Game" this morning when I walked through. None of the kids from the Triangle high schools could identify the rail-splitter President. I hope that maybe the fact that he was born in Kentucky confused them. I suspect not. ("Brain Game" is a high school quiz bowl sponsored for years by WRAL TV in Raleigh.)
I also like Venus in the broader sense.
I love to see what people find funny!

>190 LizzieD: Squeak! My comment got canceled. Well it was irreligious, but not enough to have invoked the LT filter gods. Animal control here makes you verify that the possum is indeed dead before they'll come and deal with it.

>195 quondame: Oh. My. Goodness!!!! Surely your comment was just lost in the sometimes-if-y LT posting system!
Animal control always makes me think of our afternoon of the squirrel in the house. I've told the story many times around here, so I won't repeat it. They were not efficient.

Our lacks in animal control remind me of new stats printed in our paper Wednesday that I've been shaking my head over.... You know that NC is not among the top states vaccinated against COVID. Our 1.1% of NC's population should have given my county 358 deaths as of the beginning of this week. Instead, we reached #500 last week. I'm not sure how my friends can ignore the fact that 6 of any 10 people they encounter when they go out are not vaccinated at all.

There are better things to think of ------ like

LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND THE ARTS

Prospero is the clown in "The Vicar of Wakefield," by Dickens.

Virgil was the mother of Christ.

A morality play is a play in which the characters are goblins, ghosts, virgins and other supernatural creatures.

Keats believed in the immorality of Beauty.

The theme of the poem is that Longfellow shot an arrow into the air, and many years afterward he found it in the heart of a friend.

Name three tragedies by Shakespeare.
Macbeth, King Lear, and Twelve Nights in a Bar Room.

I had an ample teacher last term. He taught us to do three things. First how to write briefs and then to exaggerate them; second how to extract substances from novels, and last how to interrupt poetry.

Horace wrote odes and odesseys.

Humor was then introduced into the English drama - for example, a wife wringing her husband's neck.

Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey.

A poetic license is a license you get from the Post Office to keep poets. You get one also if you want to keep a dog. It costs two dollars and you call it a dog license.

>196 LizzieD: I always enjoy those, Peggy.

Interrupting poetry - sacrilege!

Pity poor Ulysses - where is my Penelope? (She is trying to keep warm in South Yorkshire waiting for her own Ulysses who is struggling with the snugness of his breastplates given the unfortunate development of man-boobs).

Have a lovely Sunday, my dear lady.

>196 LizzieD: Those (k)nights sure know where to have a good time - I wonder if they're singing odes to Penelope! But only if they are licensed.

Just dropping by to let you know I finished Empires of the Plain. I am looking forward to your and Lucy's comments.

Oh Paul! Oh Susan! Always fun to see what gets triggered.

If I can remember for 2 minutes, Stasia, I'll go over to Lucy's thread to say that I'm reading chapter 9, so she can finish too. Congrats!

This one required a sizeable list of possibilities between 3 and 4!
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'Morning, Peggy!

>196 LizzieD: Twelve Nights in a Bar Room. Close, but no cigar.

>200 LizzieD: that sneaky use-a-letter-more-than-once rule struck again.

Good night, Karen! I tried to do yesterday and today's Wordle the hard way, using the letters I had already found. I don't think that's the way to have fewer tries. I'm going back to the old way tomorrow just to see.....

GEOGRAPHY

Oceana is the continent which contains no land.

There is a great deal of nothing in the center of Australia.

Asked to name six animals peculiar to the Arctic regions, a boy replied: "Three bears and three seals."

Climate lasts all the time, but weather only a few days.

Latitude tells you how hot you are, and longitude how cold you are.

The Menai Straits are crossed by a tubercular bridge.

Sienna is famous for being burnt.

The climate of Bombay is such that its inhabitants have to live elsewhere.

The sun never sets on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West.

The trade of Spain is small, owing to the insolence of the people.

The Esquimaux are God's frozen people.

The sun sets in the west and hurries round to the east to be in time to rise the next morning.

Name three animals peculiar to the frigid region.
The lion, the giraffe and the elephant would be peculiar to the frigid region, but the polar bear, the seal, and the walrus live there.

The cuckoo is a bird that lays other bird's eggs in its own next and "viva voce."

>202 LizzieD: These are ringers, I'm sure of it, ringers. By someone who didn't get what she wanted on her vacation in Spain. Perhaps it rained.

>203 quondame: It was fine when they got there because it "rained mainly on the plane".

Susan and Paul make a great team!
Who on earth would have heard of "viva voce" but not "vice versa"?????
Of course, I had a high school junior who was convinced that Veterans' Day was the name of the holiday when a man would give his sweetheart jewelry or candy and flowers and take her to a nice restaurant.

Meanwhile, I'm pleased again.....
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>205 LizzieD: I went fancy again, after "tacit" yesterday, I tried "throe" first for a score of four.

Hmmm. I had thought of "throe" as a first word, but was unclear whether it could be a singular. It's one of those words like "gruntled" in my mind.

LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND THE ARTS

Correct "It was me who broke the window."
"It wasn't me who broke the window."

What is the last letter of the English alphabet?
Yours truly - (from a Japanese pupil)

Habeas Corpus was a phrase used during the great plague of London, and means "Bring out your dead."

De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
There's nothing but bones in the dead.

Pax in bello.
Freedom from indigestion.

Agnus Dei
A woman composer famous for her church music.

LXXX
Love and kisses.

A.D.
All dates after Christ or anteduluvian.

Hors d'oevre
Out of work

Hors de combat
War horse

Notre voisin est mort d'une congestion pulmonaire.
Our neighbour died in a crush on a Pullman car.

Mes souvenirs sont peu precis.
My recollections are precious few.

(There will be more of these tomorrow.)

I could sure use some pax in my bello! A school mate once called her sister a cow's belly. And it's true the girl was a real trouble maker.

Pax to your bello, Susan! Sisterly love.........

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I'm happier than I can say, but I almost feel guilty too. My friend with the English friend, who sends her books immediately, has lent me her copy of The Locked Room. I expect to be able to do a book report very soon!!!!!

You're ahead of me - my friend who orders books from a bookseller in England has already gotten her copy and is loaning it to me when she's done with it, too!

Yay for RG.

Aren't we the lucky ones!!!!!

LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND THE ARTS

Voici l'Anglais avec son sangfroid habituel.
Here comes the Englishman with his usual bloody cold.

Le peuple emu repondit.
The purple emu laid another egg.

Tres volontiers, repondit-il.
Three volunteers responded.

Correct: "The toast was drank in silence."
The toast was eat in silence.

The objective of "he" is "She."

What is the future of "he drinks?"
He is drunk.

My brother is handsome, my sister is handmore, but my cousin is by far the handmost.

Comparison of beautiful:
Be utiful Be more utiful Be most utiful

You put a gorilla under the "c" in recu.

La belle dame sans merci: The beautiful lady who never said "Thank you."

Madchen is neuter gender because all females in Germany under eighteen are neuter.

No matter how belle, thank yous should always be given. And that kid knew a thing or two about drinking.

Morning, Susan. Maybe if he eat toast with it, he'd be a little less drunk?

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Chose the wrong word, or I could have gotten it in two, but no. I had to be fancy.

(Grrr. I just lost this almost complete post. I'll duplicate the Boners but that's all.)

SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND HEALTH

Sixty gallons make one hedgehog.

Some vitamins prevent beri beri; some prevent scurry scurry.

When we see an object, light passes through the eye and into the brain where little light exists.

The Zodiac is the Zoo of the Sky where lions, goats, virgins and other animals go after they are dead.

A Permanent set of teeth consists of 8 canines, 8 cuspids, 2 molars and 8 cuspidors.

The stomach is just south of the ribs.

The function of the stomach is to hold up the petticoat.

If you are sick, a physician should be insulted.

Doctors say that the increased birth rate shortens lives.

Digestion is carried on in the stomach by aid of acrobatic juices.

To stop a nosebleed, stand on your head till your heart stops beating.

What would you do in case of a man bleeding from a wound in the head?
I would put a tourniquet around his neck.

If you eat Vitamin A you are sure to have resistance to disease, metabolism, and growth.

>215 LizzieD: I guess this little light of mine is in danger from acrobatic juices. I hope no wounds ensue invoking tourniquets where I don't want them.

I'm so enjoying the boners! Thank you for keeping up with them, Peggy.

Two more new reviews in the new thread today, he enticed...but honestly I don't expect that you'll like 'em, too tangential is my guess.

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This one was hard for me. You got it and me too, Richard. I'm always interested in what you read and also in what you think I will/will not like.
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Hi, Susan. I've certainly had my share of acrobatic juices. I must say that I neither want a tourniquet nor a nosebleed, the cures being worse than the condition. I definitely don't want scurry scurry either!

HISTORY

Edward III would have been King of France if his mother had been a man.

The conquest of Ireland began in 1170 and is still going on.

Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon. He soon grew tired of her and divorced and beheaded her. He next married Anne Boleyn and also beheaded her. He then married Anne of Cleves and beheaded her - and so on.

Wolsey saved his life by dying on the way from York to London.

Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success.

The Spanish Armada was where that there was many people without work and it got to be where there were more and more getting without work and was going around begging and the queen tried to stop it but she found that she couldn't and she had them captured and beheaded.

Drake was playing bowls when he was told the invisible armada was in sight.

Queen Elizabeth rode through Coventry with nothing on, and Raleigh offered her his cloak.

James the First claimed the throne through his grandfather because he had no father.

Raleigh died in James I's reign and started smoking.

>219 LizzieD: They must have been positively tripping over heads there were so many of them rolling about! Perhaps Drake was bowling with them.

Hi Peggy! Happy Friday to you!

>212 LizzieD: Ah, the glorious purple emu.

>215 LizzieD: I am happy to learn about scurry scurry.

>219 LizzieD: One of my pet peeves – Henry VIII did not divorce Anne of Cleeves. He had the marriage annulled, gave her a generous settlement, and she outlived him.

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>219 LizzieD:
Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success.

I love that!

>223 PaulCranswick: That's my DH's other favorite with the cartilaginous gonad, Paul.

>220 quondame: Drake's bowling balls had never occurred to me, Susan. Thanks, I guess.

>221 karenmarie: Right you are, Karen.

Ah, The Locked Room. I should finish tomorrow. I confess that I had to look ahead to see what happened to once character; however things went, I had to know in order to keep reading.

>222 LizzieD: Heck, you got it...I think a lot of Wordlers were irked with today's choice. I got it in 4 but it really was a bolt of lightning that struck me after my third guess TIMES.

Raleigh died in James I's reign and started smoking.

That's the correct order to do it in. Die, then smoke.

>225 richardderus: No lightning here, Richard. I was relieved when I saw no other option before my last available try.
Yep. I have to agree with your assessment of Raleigh and smoking. Way too much personal history for me!

I'm loving *LRoom*. It's far from perfect, but I'm devoted to the characters. So far my very favorite thing has been Nelson's reaction to the news that Ruth has been to a meeting of a slimming group (sounds like Weight Watchers). Why would you do that???

DEFINITIONS

A census taker is a man who goes from house to house increasing the population.

Chivalry is the attitude of a man towards a strange woman.

A comma is what a medium falls into.

A conservative is a kind of greenhouse where you look at the moon.

A corps is a dead gentleman, a corpse is a dead lady.

A criterion is a most savage animal.

An eavesdropper is a kind of bird.

Emphasis in reading is putting more distress in one place than another.

The emu is the name of the noise made by a cat.

An epicure is a poet who writes epics.

An Evangelist is one who brings the gossip.

Filet Mignon is an opera by Puccini.

A Gael is a storm at sea. There was a gael in Shakespeare's Tempest

A glacier is a man who goes along the street with glass in his hand and puts it in windows.

(I chose this tonight for Karen who liked the purple emu so well yesterday!)

I wonder what the Oxford comma catches - perhaps it signals where to put the distress.

>226 LizzieD: More correctly it is held that chivalry is the attitude of a man to a woman he is not married to.

Hi Peggy! Happy Saturday to you and your mama and your DH.

>226 LizzieD: Yes! Thank you. I was particularly happy about The emu is the name of the noise made by a cat. I hate ads, but must admit I love the Liberty Mutual Emu ads.

Back to comment to comments later!

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An Evangelist is one who brings the gossip.

LOLOL!

Hi, Richard!
Hi, Karen. I have some affection for the emu too, if not for Doug. I HATE, LOATHE, and ABOMINATE the misplaced "only" in those ads ....... "Only pay," means "Don't steal, borrow, rent, beg..." etc. I've pretty much given up on the concept though.
Hi, Paul!
Hi, Susan!

LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND THE ARTS

Write a sentence showing clearly the meaning of"posterity."
He had a cat, but nothing else lived on his posterity.
The man looked as if he had been reduced to posterity.
Henry pade the fare because of his posterity.
By his clothes he seemed a person of great posterity.
The cat leaped about and then sat on its posterity.

There are three kinds of poetry - lyric, dramatic and epidemic.

Shakespeare wrote tragedies, comedies and errors.

An epitaph is a short sarcastic poem.

Homer wrote the Oddity.

Pope wrote principally in heroic cutlets.

The "Complete Angler" is another name for Euclid because he wrote all about angles.

Wells' history is a veritable millstone on the road to learning.

"The Lark that soars on dewy wing" means that the lark was going so high and flapping his wings so hard that he broke into prespiration.

Milton wrote "Paradise Lost"; then his wife died and he wrote "Paradise Regained."

Poetry is when every line begins with a capital letter.

THE LOCKED ROOM by Elly Griffiths

First, I declare myself to be still in love with Ruth and Nelson. Second, I declare that I loved this book despite its weaknesses. It's not much of a spoiler to say that Michelle is visiting her mother with George when COVID hits. Nelson and Ruth have a little time together before Laura moves home to be with him. He and his team and Ruth on her own are not particularly respectful of the lockdown. One of my favorite characters gets sick and is in ICU almost immediately. (I had to look ahead to find out what happened in order to keep on reading.) Meanwhile, Nelson and team are investigating suicides of several middle-aged women who had appeared perfectly normal before their deaths. Ruth is teaching on Zoom and has students interested in a medieval skeleton turned up in Tombland, Norwich, thinking that she might have been a plague victim. All of this comes together.
I turned back to see whether I might have missed motivation for the murders. I couldn't find much, so I suspect that some of this case will appear in the next of the series. I expect it to start one heartbeat after this book ends.

>232 LizzieD: There are many short sarcastic poems by misunderstood posterity, all with capital letters.

>233 LizzieD: I also love Ruth, Peggy. I've been anxiously waiting for the new one. I mostly skimmed your comments.

Hi, Susan and Beth! Capital letters shows that the kid pays attention to something, sort of. Maanwhile, I want some of Pope's cutlets.
I have to get cracking, having spent WAY TOO MUCH TIME ignoring the easy consonant blend that begin today's Wordle. If I don't get smarter, I'm going to be depressed.

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Hi Peggy! Here’s to a good Sunday.

>232 LizzieD: Pope wrote principally in heroic cutlets. My favorite.

>233 LizzieD: Skippety-skip. Friend Rhoda will be loaning her copy to me soon.

>236 LizzieD: I must admit I was proud to get today’s Wordle in 4.

Poetry is when every line begins with a capital letter.

...as good a definition as any...

Sunday *smooch*

Hi, Karen and Richard!

That Wordle. WHY did I think that I had already eliminated H??? I have no idea. I also have no defense against my own brain. Anyway, I'm happy that you got it in 4 and whatever Richard (who is being kind) got it in.

A FOUNTAIN FILLED WITH BLOOD by Julia Spencer-Fleming

This has been my fun read-at-home book for a month or so. I liked it, but I get tired of Clare being stupid. I also took away a half star for her being able to manage a helicopter crash, lift Russ's full weight, haul the injured man whose name I don't remember through woods and along a stream, scramble around to chock the wheels of a taxing plane, and whatever else she did that day. I know that she runs and is in good shape, but really! All of that would just be too much, even depending on adrenaline. I give other mystery writers passes though, so I guess JS-F gets one too. I will continue the series.

HISTORY

No member of Congress shall be arrested except in cases of treason, felony, or breach of promise.

Give qualifications for a president of the United States.
He must be at least 35 years of age because before that time he would be too busy thinking of getting married to be of any use to his country.

Compare Washington's and Hoover's Cabinets.
When the British burned Philadelphia they destroyed the cabinets. Everything was spoiled in Hoover's cabinet except one vessel, which he could not use. So, he got himself a new cabinet with everything in it.

The Omnibus Bill was a bill passed by Congress which forbid the use of omnibuses to Negroes in the District of Columbia.

One of the rights people enjoy under the Constitution is the right to keep bare arms.

Senatorial courtesy is the favor extended the older senators by the younger, in that the latter always rise when the former enter the room.

One difference between a president and a King is that a king has no vice.

We send an ambassador to France, but to Switzerland we send a minister of the gospel.

Representatives make the laws and the senators talk them over.

The Monroe Doctrine says that all foreigners must leave their ammunition at home.

A Communist is either a republican or a monarchist who votes for the one opposite to the one he is.

>241 LizzieD:
One of the rights people enjoy under the Constitution is the right to keep bare arms.

Of course under the headline banner - "The Naked Truth"

>240 LizzieD: That's the one that finished Clare and Russ for me. I'd read one of the later ones and was starting through the series, but noped it at this one.

>241 LizzieD: I guess that makes the kings divine!

>240 LizzieD: I loved your description of Clare Fergusson's antics, Peggy. I have a soft spot for that series, since it lured me back to reading mysteries. I was probably pretty forgiving at the time. Plus I have a sort of weird fangirl feeling about female clergy. My daughters were baptized by Presbyterian co-pastors (a married couple), who were also good friends of ours. I greatly admired them both, and had particular respect for Maria as she had to deal with so much crap from certain members of the congregation. So I guess I've kind of conflated Maria and Clare ha ha.

Have a great day!

‘Morning, Peggy! Happy Monday to you.

>240 LizzieD: I read the entire series, but realized in this book that Clare was being stupid. She continued the trend through all 9 books published so far.

Have fun Wordling.

HA! to Susan and Paul. I had never realized that that's where the divine right of kings came from. Nice to know.

I figured I wouldn't be alone, Susan, Laura, and Karen. I do mostly like Clare's theology, but contrary to some others' belief, it shouldn't make you stupid. Laura, our current minister's wife is ordained too and is an assistant. She's enough older that I didn't think of conflating her with Clare. (I also fixed the verbs in that one long sentence so that it makes sense.)

Wordle 254 4/6

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DEFINITIONS

A fugue is what you get in a room full of people when all the windows and doors are shut.

Genius is an infinite capacity for picking brains.

A goblet is a male turkey.

A grass widow is the wife of a vegetarian.

Gravity is what you get when you eat too much and too fast.

Louis XVI was gelatined during the French Revolution.

An heir is when anybody dies you get what is left.

What is an herbaceous border?
One who boards all the week and goes home on Saturdays and Sundays.

Isinglass is a whitish substance made from the bladders of surgeons.

Matrimony is a place where souls suffer for a time on account of their sins.

A Mayor is a he horse.

The letters M.D. signify "mentally deficient."

A monologue is a conversation between two people, such as husband and wife.

Mussolini is a sort of material used for ladies' stockings.

I'm just loaded with gravity, but at least not in a fugue or wearing Mussolini, so that's something. But monologues and matrimony do lead to some soul soreness.

I haven't visited for a while, and I see I have missed a lot of Wordle updates! I am a fan too...today I almost missed out as my usual schedule was changed about due to a physiotherapy appointment that had to be early. I was very excited to get home and realise I still had some puzzling to do :)

>248 LizzieD: I absolutely agree with the definition of genius. 100% And Louis XVI was gelatined, of course, but that was just his wig.

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Nice to see visits and happiness at learning how kids see the world...... Hi, Susan, Megan, and Richard! HA!
I start my day at Mama's with Wordle although I shouldn't. It is a thing to look forward to, and I'm happy with today's results - especially since I share them with Richard.
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Look at our river friend's fb page for his stunning pictures of MY BALD EAGLE that I've watched a couple of times now but have been unable to see clearly enough to identify. Local Bird Life includes stunning pics of the eagle - even washing in the river after eating a fish - and a pileated woodpecker and hooded mergansers (my favorites).

Hi Peggy!

>248 LizzieD: Too many good'uns to single out one.

>252 LizzieD: I got Wordle in 4, too, and like RD thought it a strange choice.

Excellent photos on your friend's FB page.

Hi, Karen! I think that his pics are great. My only mistake is that those lovely yellow-eyed ducks are hooded mergansers and not buffleheads. I like buffleheads too, but I don't think any show up there.

Hi, Peggy. I thought I would surprise you with a visit. I have no idea why I haven't been by here before. I checked out your pal Charlie's FB page, albeit briefly but I was quite impressed. He is an awesome photographer. It is great to get a chance to see the bald eagles so close by and I am also a big fan of hooded mergansers. We see them during migration, so I have seen them recently, although not in large numbers.

BTW- I am also a big fan of North Carolina. My brother lives in Hendersonville. We have considered retiring in NC.

Mark, you're a great surprise. Thank you! As far as I know, there's only one eagle, and I think he's a young one. Also, Charlie is more my DH's pal than mine. We see a lot of the same people as we walk by the river daily and stop to tell each other what we've seen. We quietly watched a pair of barred owls raise a couple of babies one year, and no casual passers-by had any idea that the nest was there.
I think that retiring to NC is a wonderful idea. We are across the state from Hendersonville, but that would be a lovely place to live, I think. Come on down!
AND I neglected to say on your thread that Jack is such a looker with personality plus! I'm guessing that you're not retiring far from him.

HISTORY

The people didn't like King James II and after three years they decomposed him.

William III, on his way to Hampton Court, stumbled over a mole and broke his collar stud - which was fatal to a man of his constituency.

A lot of Englishmen were shut up in the Black Hole of Calcutta with one small widow. Only four got out alive.

They gave William IV a lovely funeral. It took six men to carry the beer.

Queen Victoria was the longest queen on the throne..

The Battle of Trafalgar was fought on sea, therefore it is sometimes called Waterloo.

The Duck of Wellington won a big battle and when he finished he had one arm and one eye and he looked through the telescope with his blind eye and said it was alright and that is how he won the battle.

The Prodigal Fathers sailed for the New World in 1620.

In 1658 the Pilgrims crossed the ocean and this was known as Pilgrims' Progress.

Where was the Declaration of Independence signed/
At the bottom.

Let us compare the Constitution to a boat with Washington, James Madison and the several other fishing from it with the states as fishes. Some of these little suckers got hooked right off but New York and Virginia, the bass, put up a hard fight in which Patrick Henry took Virginia's part against James Madison. Patrick Henry won but the line was too strong and he along with Virginia came aboard. New York was caught easily and only Rhode Island remained. She would not be caught so they threatened to dynamite the pool, that is, to treat her as a foreign country, so she bit and the thirteen states stood a "New Nation under God."

And here I thought Empress Vickie was the widest! I've never seen such a thorough Nelson/Wellington scramble - not even Napoleon managed the like!

Happy Wednesday, Peggy. Living near a river like this, sounds like heaven to me. We have barred owls here, (I got my FOY, about 2 weeks ago) but they are even more secretive than GHOs and I have never seen one on a nest. You were fortunate.

And yep, we love our Jackson. We are lucky to spend so much time with him.

Hi Peggy. Happy Wednesday to you.

>257 LizzieD: William III, on his way to Hampton Court, stumbled over a mole and broke his collar stud - which was fatal to a man of his constituency. This wins my prize for craziest, although the last one gets a prize for inventiveness.

Morning, Susan. You have me singing "Long and Wide!" this morning. I didn't copy it, but I have an equally scrambled version of A Doll's House and Medea from a 10th grader who couldn't stay awake in class. I hasten to explain that in NC the literary focus for the 10th grade is World Literature. It's insane. (He said something like Nora slammed the door after she killed her children because her husband was mad at her for borrowing money.)

Welcome back, Mark. Both my father and my DH grew up on the river. I've been here only 50 years, and any walk can turn into an adventure.

Morning, Karen. I confess that my favorite is that widow in the Black Hole of Calcutta although I would have enjoyed King William's funeral.

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1658...Pilgrim's Progress...oh my heck. Ha!

GOOD FOR US, RICHARD!

This is mostly for Mark again. He has me thinking about the river and wild life. I've said it all before but never in one place, so here goes. Feel free to skip!

I am thrilled to have watched the owls nesting, to catch sight and sound of the pileated pair, and to have seen the bald eagle. Those are stored in my memory banks along with the recent watching a fox running through falling snow. I am sad, however, because my seeing the birds here on the edge of town means that they have been pushed out of their natural, sequestered habitat. The swamps and woods have come down, and houses (which were flooded in '16 and '18, to be sure) have gone up in what should have been considered flood plain. While I'm at it, I also acknowledge living comfortably in my white privilege. Our house is on the highest level of our town. My DH's parents bought it in the 30s because they were white and had enough money to avoid the bottoms, which flood less regularly now due to a dike that pushes water to the folks downstream. I'm not sure how to make amends while I enjoy our place at the expense of others, so I mostly don't think about it. Today I did, and I'm humbled.

I loved your memories and thoughts on your home and the river, Peggy. Sadly, animals are being forced to alter their behavior, due to habitat challenges. But the natural world makes adjustments. I understand your white privilege guilt but at least you recognize it. Have you read Nature's Best Hope? If not, I highly recommend it.

BTW- I also LOVE pileated woodpeckers. I have not seen any yet this year. That should change soon.

Hi Peggy. Nothing much to say except you sound in fine form and enjoying the joys of Wordle and reading.

I read somewhere (a couple weeks ago probably) that there was a hue and cry from the general wordle fans out 'there' in the public, that the words were too hard. Did you see for example, claims that no one was expected to know words like tacit. Say what?? If that was strange thing to see such a complaint in a word puzzle, I'm amazed they can play at all.

I *finally* received my ILL book from our library system ~ Empires of the Plain. I was so intrigued to read what you and the group were saying (on Lucy's thread) about Henry Rawlinson and his sojourn in the exploration of ancient writings in Persia and Afghanistan. I wanted to start it right away but (a first for me to have happen), the hubs grabbed it and is reading it now. I didn't mind because when I finish an ER book I really must get reviewed, I'll have someone to chatter to as I work through the story.

WOW! Sandy, I'm thrilled to see you back here and double-thrilled that your husband has co-opted *Empires*. I'm still plodding along as I can - in chapter 13 now, so you'll have plenty of time to catch up. I'm fascinated when I can get to it and concentrate. And, yep, I was confounded but not surprised that "tacit" was a word too far for our great unwashed. Welcome back!

Mark, I'm relieved that I didn't sound dumb. I don't know Tallamy and thank you for the suggestion. We first saw pileated woodpeckers at my parents' place on a marsh off the Shallotte River on the NC coast in the '70s. A great sadness that I didn't mention was finding a downed hollow tree after a hard storm on our walk last year with 3 dead pileated chicks in the debris.

SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND HEALTH

There are two kinds of thermometers: the Fahrenheit and the Centipede.

A gas jar was held upside-down and a candle was put in. When it was in it was out, and when it was out it was in.

Explain the effect of heat and cold and give an illustration.
Heat expands: in the summer the days are long.
Cold contracts: in the winter the days are short.

Sound is a rapid series of osculations.

The Voltaic Cell was invented by a Frenchman by the name of Voltaire.

Iron was discovered because someone smelt it.

The moon is a planet just like the earth only deader.

What happens when there is an eclipse of the sun?
A great many people come out to look at it.

Three heavenly bodies are the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

What is the dog star?
Rin-tin-tin.

The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.

A triangle which as an angle of 135° is called an obscene triangle.

>266 LizzieD: I thought it was the blacksmith that smelled not the iron. All dogs are stars! And yep, those are the seasons we can't do without.

>266 LizzieD: An "obscene" triangle. The mind boggles, Peggy.

Hi, Susan and Paul! My friend Truman asked the geometry teacher in all innocence, "Mr. Jenkins would you go over that about circumcised circles again."

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What is the dog star?
Rin-tin-tin.
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SOMEone had just haddit with that test!

I got Wordle in 4...I must be less gloomy than you.

*smooch*

Hi Peggy!

>266 LizzieD: All are fantastic.

>269 LizzieD: Congrats on getting it in 3.

Hi, Susan, Richard, and Karen! I'm going to copy a page and head to bed!
It occurs to me that we will all have read another book toward our 75 (or in your cases, 750 or something) when I finish this.

SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND HEALTH (The first one is for Susan and Paul)

Geometry teaches us to bisex angels.

The pistil of a flower is its only protection against insects.

Amphibia lead a double life.

An ox is a cow that can't have babies.

Dr. Tse-tse invented the tse-tse fly that causes sleeping-sickness.

How do bacteria reproduce?
They multiply and then divide.

Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire.

Show how a knowledge of Biology is valuable in pruning trees.
Cut off all the dead limbs, remove all pieces of dead bark, cement up all holes so bugs can't get in, and the trees will bear prunes.

A plant that lives on another plant is a humorist.

Define: H2O and CO2.
H2O is hot water and CO2 is cold water.

Sea water has the formula CH20.

Name three states in which water may exist.
New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

I'm not sure about Pennsylvania, after all, NJ is its coastline. I guess if I bisex some angels then twice as many can dance on a pin. But only if they're so inclined.

>269 LizzieD: Eye watering geometry!

>273 LizzieD: Amphibia lead a double life - I like that.

>274 quondame: Nicely done, Susan.

Happy Friday, Peggy! Do you have feeders up at your home? I cannot remember. If you do, I always like hearing those feeder reports. Just sayin'...

Morning, Mark. Oh yes, we have feeders! Carolina chickadees, titmice, house wrens, the occasional nuthatch, cardinals, and #(@)!! purple finches are our normal guests; I'm surprised as I think about it that we don't see more sparrows. In past years if we put out orange halves, we might get Baltimore orioles, but I'm not home to do it.

Morning, Paul and Susan (!). This was not a favorite page, but I like the logic of the pruner.

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>277 LizzieD: I got it in 6, and was extremely put out! I had the first letter in the right place from the get-go and *still* spun my wheels. I think I'll just refuse to use That Word for a month or two just to teach it to be mean to me. *hmph*

>273 LizzieD: Bisexing angels isn't a thing I'd ever so much as considered....

Richard, I won't use that word either in solidarity with you. To get the 2nd letter on the 2nd try was the real luck for me.

Maybe none of us should consider bisexing angels. (Our neighbor's daughter was madly in love with a motorcyclist, who had a tag made for his machine that said "Angle" in honor of Cathy.) (Poor kids and words! A good 90% of my honors English students said that they had written about the Sahara on the state's 4th grade writing test to answer the question, "What's your favorite dessert?")

>279 LizzieD: Now, imagine being an English expat's kid..."what the heck?! Oooh, you mean pudding!"

Well, 'pudding' looks nothing at all like 'desert,' so the expat English kid would have a leg up, I guess.

BIBLE, RELIGIONS, AND MYTH

The Gorgons were three sisters that lived in the islands of the Hesperides somewhere in the Indian Ocean. They had long snakes for hair, tusks for teeth, and claws for nails, and they looked like women only more horrible.

Mercury was the God of weather, because it is in thermometers.

Among the noted buildings of Greece was the Esophagus, a temple to Jupiter.

Buddha lived a normal life with a wife and family, and when he was thirty, left home in search of happiness.

The Roman religion of Animism recognized a lightfather called Jupiter, a god of blight called Robigus, a king of hell called Plutarch, and a god of boundaries called Termite.

They were casting gifts into the treasury and a certain widow cast in two mitts.

Moses was a man who lived in the first part of the bible.

The Israelites were led through the wilderness by a pillow afire.

How long did Solomon reign?
Forty days and forty nights.

The wise men brought gifts of gold and frankfurters.

The commandment, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," means that you should not put water in milk, or cheat in any way similar.

>281 LizzieD: Well, how are we supposed to follow a straight path if our pillow keeps us up all night burning. 40 years seems short considering. Plutarch, looking around trying to figure out how he ended up here?

I admire that fiery pillow too. What I admire is the mind that can remember Robigus but not Terminus. Oh well.

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Among the noted buildings of Greece was the Esophagus, a temple to Jupiter.

Apparently the traffic around the place always creates a bottleneck!

Have a lovely weekend, Peggy.

Many thanks and same to you, Paul.

LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND THE ARTS

Name three relative pronouns.
Aunt, uncle, brother.

An active verb shows action, and a passive verb shows passion.

Lettres de cachet were perfumed letters.

Cave canem:
Beware! I may sing!

The favorite instrument of the Ancient Arabians was known as the eunuch.

Some instruments used in an orchestra are: viles, cellars, trumpets, hornets, baboons, old boys, and bubble bases.

Donatello's interest in the female nude made him the father of the Renaissance.

Notre Dame at Paris is noted for its gargoyles or drinking fountains.

Hogarth did many satirical works, including "The Rape's Progress."

The Egyptian pyramid was made in the shape of a huge triangular cube.

Most of the beautiful building in Boston are of the reminiscent period of architecture.

>285 LizzieD: That's not what I heard about Donatello! But yeah, my daughter would have hung that sign on me. If I started to sing along with the radio while we were driving she'd start screaming.
Clever, those Egyptians!

Morning, Susan. Ha! --- and sorry about the singing. Everybody should sing. The introduction to the book says that none of these was made up, but I have my doubts about the list of instruments.

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Hi Peggy, and happy Sunday to you!

>273 LizzieD: Dr. Tse-tse invented the tse-tse fly that causes sleeping-sickness. This reminds one of my favorites by Ogden Nash: Aunt Betsy was fixing to change her will, And would have left us out in the chill. Glossina morsitans bit Aunt Betsy Tsk, tsk, tsetse.

>281 LizzieD: The wise men brought gifts of gold and frankfurters. Ah yes.

>285 LizzieD: Some instruments used in an orchestra are: viles, cellars, trumpets, hornets, baboons, old boys, and bubble bases. LOL

>287 LizzieD: Congrats on getting it in 3. My first word was a total dud, so I’m glad I got it in 4.

Happy Sunday, Peggy. I love your feeder report up there and I am super jealous that you get purple finch regularly. We see them time to time but not very often and I don't think I have ever had them at my feeders. We do have titmouse but they don't care for urban areas and are rarely seen in the 'burbs. If you venture out into the rural areas, you can find them, year round.

Mark, I wish that you could have our purple finches. They sit on the feeder and eat and eat and eat so that the other little birds can't get to it. Two would eat a whole feeder-full without moving if they could hold it. Goldfinch occasionally travel through, but they aren't greedy.

Morning, Karen! Thank you for the Nashery. You and I continue to trade 3s and 4s except when I mess up.

>287 LizzieD: I got it in three, too! I was right pleased.

The Gorgons were three sisters that lived in the islands of the Hesperides somewhere in the Indian Ocean. They had long snakes for hair, tusks for teeth, and claws for nails, and they looked like women only more horrible.

Glad you liked one, Richard!!!!!

HISTORY

After Queen Elizabeth had got safely across the puddle on which Raleigh had put his cloak, she said, "I am afraid I have soiled your coat." Raleigh replied in French, "Mon Dieu et mon droit," which means, "My God, you're right."

King Alfred walked on until he came to a cottage and, going in, he found a lonely woman, but of the rest the less said the better.

The kings of England lived at court and had many mistresses ... but the lot of the middle classes was not so nice.

The Spanish Armada was a ship 320 feet long, 64 feet deep, and 10 feet wide.

On the way home the Armada began to leak and they had to stop and fix it.

After his death, Charles I, who during his life had been known as Charles the Tyrant, became Charles the Martyr. He died for the good of his country, because his country was much better off after he was dead.

Charles II really found out about gravity because when he was in the oak, an acorn fell on him. He told Newton, who got all the credit.

For all these acts of folly James II must be held responsible, but then there happened something for which James should not be held responsible. His wife bore him a son.

In the Eighteenth Century traveling was very romantic. Most of the highroads were only bridal paths.

Uh oh. I almost forgot!

PAWN OF PROPHECY by David Eddings
I'm not sure how I missed these when they came out. I wish I had read the series then, but now is lovely too. This was a very comforting book. On to the next!

What an excuse to shorten the assigned essay on King Alfred. If James II wasn't responsible it would put paid to a host of contenders. Bonny Bastard Charlie just hasn't the same ring.

Morning, Susan! You're talking to a mostly-Scot. (Flora Macdonald's son is buried not twenty miles from here.) Bonny Bastard Charlie has no ring at all!!!!

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'Morning, Peggy! Happy Monday to you. I wish it wasn't in the 80s. Too warm at this time of year for me.

My plan is to get over the groggies and go to the Senior Center to use their treadmill this morning. Grocery shopping after if I am not too whupped.

>292 LizzieD: *smile*

Oh good gravy...Mmmday again, and me without my taser.

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My guess was luckier than yours...after I spent 30min cogitating on it.

...bridal paths...oy

Richard, if you give 30 minutes thinking about the puzzle, there's very little luck involved, I think. You'll get it! I think, but not that long nor that deeply.

Hi, Karen, hope you were able to get a treadmill at the senior center and that you enjoyed it. I'm not happy with the 80° either, but tomorrow is supposed to be more reasonable. Good old NC!

Not even going to try and catch up, Peggy, just wanted to check in on you here :)

Thanks for speaking, Stasia. I"m off to an eye appointment early in the morning, so I expect that I won't post the usual Boners...... I'll do two tomorrow!

'Morning, Peggy!

There's only one treadmill at our small Senior Center, but I got it. Did I enjoy it? No. Was I proud that I actually left the house to exercise? Definitely.

Good for you, Karen! Less good for the senior center. I believe you're going to need to make an investment.

Wordle 262 3/6

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Oh well. It's not as though I didn't have enough to read, but I started The Lincoln Highway tonight, and I do think I have to read it now. Looks as though this will be what I'm reading when I'm not reading Empires of the Plain. I read a couple of chapters in the latter today in the doctor's waiting room despite a lot of chat and dilated eyes.

MISCELLANEOUS

The future of America is imminent.

He was dressed in the garbage of a monk.

In a sale of public auction, the title passes as soon as the auctioneer knocks the buyer down.

Before the age of reason men took everything for granite.

The King's soldiers were standing at their posts when streams of larva came from the volcano.

The ruler of Persia is the Pshah.

Ralph's father was a seaman. His mother was a marine.

Horse racing is a very cruel sport. At the end of the race one horse drops dead from fatigue, and the rider is pitched into maternity.

We caught one snake, and we wanted to keep him, but my father said to kill him. We knew it was no use arguing with Father, so we took him out back of the barn, held him down with a forked stick, and skinned him.

Three shots rang out. Two of the servants fell dead, the other went through his hat.

We had a longer holiday than usual this year, because the school was closed for altercations.

And here's a make-up for yesterday.....

BIBLE, RELIGION, AND MYTH

In Christianity a man can only have one wife. This is called Monotony.

The message came to Abraham that he should bear a son, and Sarah, who was listening behind the door, laughed.

In what order do the Gospels come?
One after the other.

The Great Flood was sent because of the large numbers of dirty people.

The greatest miracle in the Bible is when Joshua told his son to stand still and he obeyed him.

Who was sorry when the Prodigal Son returned?
The fatted calf.

The Bible is against bigamy when it says that no man can serve two masters.

Whenever David played to Saul the latter kept a javelin handy.

Eliza came before the King wrapped in a camel's hair, and said, "Behold me, I am Eliza the Tit-bit."

>302 LizzieD: That must be a shock for no few of the riders!

>303 LizzieD: That was probably the last laugh for old Sarah!

>302 LizzieD: I hope you enjoy The Lincoln Highway, Peggy. I still think A Gentleman in Moscow is Towles' best book though.

Happy Wednesday, Peggy. I got my first pileated woodpecker of the year and my first sighting of one at that location. I heard their drumming from the parking lot. These are one of my favorite birds. How are your feeders doing? Any spring arrivals?

>305 alcottacre: I agree with you on Towles.

I finished Wheel 12, Peggy. Wheel 11 already perked up a little, and this one was even better! I even start to like the characters ;-)
So glad Sanderson finished the series.

Wow, Anita! You are wheeling right along. Maybe we can finish the series together? (Or, at my speed, at least start to finish it together)
Hi, Mark. Great pileated spotting! We hear our pair in the neighborhood but rarely see them. I'm not home enough to be able to check on the passers-through. I'll tell you what I miss though: red heads and even bellies, the wood thrush, bob-whites and whip-poor-wills. We heard a bird last summer that sounded like a wood thrush, but we agreed that the silvery, flutey sound was lacking somehow although the call was what we remembered.
Glad to have you back, Susan.
Stasia and Mark, I'm pretty sure I'll agree about Towles and The Count. That's one of my books of the decade!

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>308 LizzieD: I was a three-boy today, and right pleased with it, but AEONS then NORTH as my choices didn't leave a whole lot of doubt as to the correct answer.

>302 LizzieD: He was dressed in the garbage of a monk.
*snort*

>309 richardderus: By the time I got to the cardinal direction, I had to rule it out. Good for you!

Here's another page, and I'm off to bed!

DEFINITIONS

An oboe is an American tramp.

An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes, a pessimist looks after your feet.

The Papal Bull was a mad bull kept by the Pope in the Inquisition to trample on Protestants.

The Papal Bull was really a cow that was kept at the Vatican to supply milk for the Pope's children.

Paraffin is the next order of angels above seraphim.

A period is a dot at the end of a sentence.
Period costumes are dresses all covered with dots.

A polygon is a man who has many wives.

A prodigal is the son of a priest.

A Protestant is a woman who gets her living through an immortal life.

What are rabies, and what would you do for them?
Rabies are Jewish priests. I should do nothing for them.

A refugee keeps order at a football match.

Revolution is a form of government abroad.

A Senator is half horse and half man.

A sinecure is a disease without a cure.

Boy do those angels burn brightly! And there's sine cure for them.

Don't you wonder why all the references to angels???

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DEFINITIONS

Strategy is when you don't let the enemy know that you are out of ammunition, but keep on firing.

A surfeit is an apron worn in the front.

By syntax is meant all the money collected by the catholic church from sinners.

Terrapin - An angel of the highest order.

Thrombosis is an instrument used in a jazz band and something like a slip horn.

A tonsure is a priest's shaving his head instead of cutting it off.

A virgin forest is a forest in which the hand of man has never set foot.

A woodcock is a husband whose wife has been untrue to him.

A yokel is the way people talk to each other in the Alps.

>313 LizzieD: Those angels keep sneaking in. I definitely could use some of that strategy.

Nice trick if you can do it, Susan. ANGLES!

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Oh well again. I yielded to impulse and put Stranger in the Shogun's City on my Kindle.....an account of early 19th century Edo. Japan fascinates me, so I hope I'll be fascinated when I get to this one.

LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND THE ARTS

Macaulay was quite unable to appreciate Dr. Johnson's experiences, because Johnson was very poor, while Macaulay lived amid all the extravagance and lust practicable in a private household.

As I was laying on the green
A small English book I seen
Carlyle's essay on Burns was the edition
So I left it lay in the same position.

Gannymede and Runnymede were two character in Dickens.

Arnold Bennett was a soldier in the war on the Union side. He turned traitor to the Union, was injured in battle, and then he begged to be allowed to put on this union suit.

Shavians were cruel barbarians. The Shavs were a Russian race with a Spartan sense of humor.

Land where our Father died,
Land where the Pilgrims pried.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, while his parents were traveling on the continent. He made many fast friends, among the fastest were Alice and Phoebe Cary.

What did Paul Revere say at the end of his famous ride?
Whoa.

Poe creates a musical effect by means of alteration and eternal rhyme.

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>316 LizzieD: The Spartans had a sense of humor? Well, the Shavs should know, having it and all. The Pilgrims will pry it out for sure.

Who knew, right? I'm just trying not to picture Arnold Bennett in his union suit.

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>318 LizzieD: Wise words about the Wordle there, Peggy. Congrats on a great result!

Happy Saturday, Peggy!

>316 LizzieD: Land where our Father died,
Land where the Pilgrims pried.
Ha!!

Saturday *smooch*

>280 richardderus: >281 LizzieD: That pudding/dessert thing just have me searching my mind for the source of dejavu.
It was (surprise surprise) a book I read recently...in which the father of the (New Zealand) household dashed a plate of dessert against the wall in protest at it being presented as "dessert" instead of "pudding". Dessert being fancy Colonial talk, in his mind. When I grew up it was always "pudding" :)

It's lovely, lovely, lovely to see Laura, Stasia, and Richard here. Thank you for visiting!
Megan, you are a real treat! I think of you often, but I'm not here for a long enough time to pay you a visit. I thought "pudding" was English normal. When I think of pudding, I think of one of my life-long friends whose parents called her "Pud" because she was "cute as pudding pie." At the lane leading to their lake house, they had a sign which pretty much designated the importance of each member in their family of three. It read, "MABEL, Pud, bevo."

It is so late. I LOATHE AND DESPISE Daylight Savings Time in the spring. It takes me weeks to readjust, and here I am late again.

GEOGRAPHY

Virginia is the mother of President Wilson and is also noted for her hysterical sights.

The chief product of the Hawaiian Islands is rainfall.

Philistines were inhabitants of the Phillipine Islands.

The original tribes of Central America were the Aztecs, the Cults, and the Morons.

New Zealand is a democratic country. They passed a law there preventing women from sweating in the factories.

The climate is hottest next the Creator. Malays are brown generally and inhabit Malaria.

The Kaffirs of Africa are a very savage race. In time of war they beat their tum-tums and can be heard for many miles around.

The American Indians travel in birchbark canoes on little streams of water that they make themselves.

The state flower of Colorado is the concubine.

The soil of Prussia was so poor that the people had to work hard to stay on top.

The Mason line is the line north of the equator and the Dixon is the line south of the equator.

In the West the farming is done mostly by irritating the land.

>323 LizzieD: Wait!?! Colorado's? I thought it was Nevada's. And that's as PC as I can get for this collection.

Hi Peggy!

>323 LizzieD: I hate DST too, and returning to EST in in the fall. A friend and I were commiserating about it yesterday, and she mentioned that her grandparents pretty much ignored it on the farm, saying that it wasn’t fair to the cows to be expected to change schedules because of the government.

Love the Geography, especially American Indians making their own little streams of water.

Morning, Susan and Karen. I thought there was a lot of fun there for a topic like geography.

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MISCELLANEOUS

When a lady and a gentleman are walking on the footpath the lady should walk inside the gentleman.

Lord Mayors of London are famous city men who are generally benighted.

All the crew were taken into custardy.

The theory of exchange, as I understand it, is not very well understood.

The Pilgrim Fathers were Adam and Eve.

Achilles was the boy whose mother dipped him in the River Stinx until he was intollerable.

Where are the Kings of England crowned?
On their heads.

Henry said, "Beware the Brides of March."

During the Napoleonic Wars crowned heads were trembling in their shoes.

The wife of a duke is a ducky.

Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.

False doctrine means giving people the wrong medicine.

Her mother, being immortal, had died.

There are only two crimes visited with capital punishment, murder and suicide.

So that's where calling someone ducky comes from. And the wife of an earl is early?

>327 LizzieD: Oh my! Belly laughs for The wife of a duke is a ducky.

I hope you're doing well today, my dear. Here it's wispy clouds and pale blue skies, lots of birds on the feeders. Quiet reigns as Bill is at work, and coffee is being consumed. Happy sigh.

Please give your ma a gentle hug or two from me, your DH my kindest regards, and many hugs for you.

Well, poo. Where is my earlier post with a grin for Susan and my less-of-a-disaster-than-yesterday Wordle? (I kind of like doctrine myself.)

Thank you, Karen, with wishes and hugs right back! Lovely walking weather!!!

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>330 LizzieD: *I* got it in three. *nyah*

>323 LizzieD: The state flower of Colorado is the concubine.
LOLOL

Yeah, Richard. I saw. Maybe my first words will start working again soon. "Ratio" did seem like such a winner to me. Wasn't.

MISCELLANEOUS

When my grandma lived in Germany, she found a nest of snake's eggs and she went there and hatched them. She hatched them with a hatchet.

When you want to kill a hog you stab him in the aqueduct.

Churches are supported by the tribulations of the members.

At the X mine, after sinking a shaft one hundred feet, they finally struck bed-pan.

Although the patient had never been fatally ill before, he woke up dead.

The bazaar of Russia wanted to rule over the Christian turkeys.

I am not convinced. I would take those figures with a dose of salts.

A qualified voter is one who is 21 years old, has lived in the precinct at least two months, and one who has not committed adultery.

Open Shop is beneficial to the working man because he gets more fresh air.

The temperance in the South is high, though in the Northern states it is much lower, especially in winter.

Corpse after corpse and pantaloon after pantaloon marched up the hill.

Herrings go about the sea in shawls.

Those bazaars of Russia really are trouble makers. And that's why voter turnout is so low! Watch out for well pantaloon'd zombies!

Morning, Susan. The pantaloons rival my student who had QE1 stand on her pedalstool to speak to the troops at Tilsbury.

Wordle 269 3/6

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Yay Peggy! I got it in 3, too.

>332 LizzieD: Herrings go about the sea in shawls. What a lovely image that evokes.

Hi, Karen! Here comes the page for tonight!

LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND THE ARTS

Two mourners for Lycidas were St. Peter and Old Man River.

In England tourists are able to see Gray's Effigy in a Country Church Yard.

The name of a famous ode by Wordsworth is "Imitations of Immorality in Youth."

Tennyson betrayed women very successfully.

If Fielding had addressed Tom Jones to his posteriors instead of his contemporaries, much of the novel's loose talk would have been omitted.

The Templar urged Rebecca to become his mistress. The brave girl reclined to do so.

The Scarlet Letter griped me intensely.

Ichabod had a copy of Cotton Mather's History of Witchcraft, full of dogs' ears. He saved dogs' ears the way some people would save a rabbit's foot.

Correct: The bull and the cow is in the field.
The cow and the bull is in the field. Ladies come first.

The plural of monocle is binnacle.

What kind of a noun is trousers?
An uncommon noun because it is singular on top and plural at the bottom.

Hey, Fielding's posteriors are just fine with his language. They just need some of those uncommon trousers.

Morning, Susan! I'm glad that Fielding doesn't gripe you anyway.

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The plural of monocle is binnacle.
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I love that one! My uncle had a wonderfully weird ~1950 Chrysler with an instrument binnacle that was a monocle:


I used to love that car as a kid.

Comisserations, Richard. That's a great interior. Is Chrysler still doing weird things? We had a 50-something Chrysler in the early 60s with a push-button transmission something like this:

I think Chrysler is pretty dull these days, though I can't prove it experientially.

The pushbutton idea always seemed to me just...tricksy...complicated to make work, I know, but to gain what?

Just checking in on you, Peggy! Hope all is well there!

Well, Richard, when I had that great barge of a car stuck in the mud in the high school parking lot one of the few times I got to drive it, I pushed D & R and rocked it out pretty easily. I'm not sure that was a great selling point.

Thanks for the check-in, Stasia. I just left you a greeting on your home page.

I hadn't marked pages until now. I hope and believe that this is not a repeat.....

DEFINITIONS

A skeleton is a man with his inside out and his outside off.

S.O.S. is a musical term meaning same only softer.

A Soviet is a cloth used by waiters in hotels.

A spinster is a bachelor's wife.

Transparent means something you can see through, for instance, a keyhole.

A vacuum is an empty space where the Pope lives.

Aesophagus was the author of Aesop's Fables.

An anachronism is a thing that a man puts in writing in the past before it has taken place in the future.

An armadillo is an ornamental shrub.

The catacombs were where the early Christians lived when they were put to death by Nero.

Catharsis is a psychological means of stopping a catarrh. It illustrates the influence of mind over body.

A caucus is a sort of big parrot that has been taught to swear.

Caviar is the eggs of a surgeon.

Celibacy is a disease of the brain.

The Dauphin was a rare fish that used to inhabit the Arctic Circle in the middle ages.

>343 LizzieD: Alas it is a repeat. Caviar is fairly rare, most surgeons being male.

The first car I drove was a 57 Plymouth wagon with the push button gear shift. I left the engine running one evening and while that didn't quite kill it, it was never the same after that. But as it was at least 8 years old at the time it wasn't a great loss. Though it took decades and deaths before I heard the end of it.

Susan, I could swear that I answered you this morning with apologies for the repetition.

My first car was a brand new '66 Plymouth Valiant, slant six, that I loved and adored. My parents gave me the down payment for college graduation, and Daddy said, "I wouldn't deprive you of the pleasure of paying for your first car." It was.

Let's try these....

HISTORY

Three marshals in the World War were Marshal Foch, Marshal Haig, and Marshal Field.

Nero was a cruel tyrany who would torture his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them.

Write all that you know about Nero.
The less said about Nero the better.

In the middle ages there were the Merchant and Graft Guilds.

Martin Luther was arrested for selling indulgences in the streets of Rome without a licence.

Joan of Arc was burned because they thought she was a witchess, but centuries after she was beautified by the Pope.

Charlotte Bronte murdered Murat in his bath.

Napoleon's men were cannibals because they existed on raw recruits.

What did Napoleon do for France
He Killed Buonoparte.

King Alfred conquered the Dames.

Henry's popularity was shown by the title he gained as the "Offender of the Faith."

About this time, Henry went mad, and bore a son.

SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND HEALTH

Science is material. Religion is immaterial.

If there was no nitrogen in the air we should die of fits of laughter.

Name the three races of man.
Foot race, horse race and automobile race.

Charles Darwin was a natulist who wrote the Organ of the Spices.

Huxley was the greatest antagonist of the nineteenth century.

The solid wastes are excreted through the retina.

The theory of evolution was greatly objected to because it made men think.

The scientific name of the flea is hegira. It was given that name by Mohammet when he went to Mecca.

Yep, we'd rather die than think. All those little grey cells are ever so lazy.

Hi Peggy! Happy Friday.

>336 LizzieD: Ha. The Scarlet Letter griped me intensely, too, as I recall.

>338 LizzieD: Yay for not getting skunked.

>339 richardderus: - >341 richardderus: Jenna’s loaner car is a Nissan Rogue, with the weirdest steering wheel imaginable. She hates it. It interferes with properly turning, in her opinion.



>343 LizzieD: Aesophagus was the author of Aesop's Fables. Belly laugh on that one.

>345 LizzieD: Wow. Brand new car. Your Daddy was a wise man. My parents never bought a car for my brother or me, but bought one for my sister when she graduated high school. Used, but nevertheless a car. It still rankles a bit, 47 years later, as that was the same year I graduated college and they gave me a ring.

>345 LizzieD: Charlotte Bronte murdered Murat in his bath. Somebody was smoking or drinking something…

Good morning, Karen and Susan! Yes, I think it gripes people to have to think. I'm pretty sure the kid who wrote about Charlotte Bronte had no idea who she was and was gleeful at having remembered a "Charlotte." I'll bet he was surprised when it was marked wrong.

Wordle 272 3/6

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>348 LizzieD: Excellent! I picked SABRE before SAUTE.

Science is material. Religion is immaterial.
Amen.

>349 richardderus: Well, unless you're a string theorist. Though that might qualify more religion than science, I suppose. 😀

>350 drneutron: As fascinating as it is, and as much as its truth could explain, it's as yet unverifiable and shows no signs of becoming verifiable, therefore it's pretty much a religion.

Hi, Richard and Jim. I had not even dreamed of string theory, but I figured Richard would latch onto the immateriality of religion.

GEOGRAPHY

People go to Africa to hunt rhinostriches.

Glaciers spread a murrain over the land.

The highest peak in the alps is Blanc Mange.

The equator is a menagerie lion running round the earth and through Africa.

Imports are ports very far inland.

Nearly at the bottom of Lake Michigan is Chicago.

The chief occupation of the inhabitants of Perth is dying.

The inhabitants of Moscow are called Mosquitoes.

The Pyramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain.

A mountain range is a cooking stove used at high altitudes.

An Indian reservation consists of a mile of land for every five square Indians.

The only signs of life in the Tundras are a few stunted corpses.

Among the islands of the West Indies are the Pyjamas, noted for toilet sponges.

The cuckoo is a bird that lays other bird's eggs in its own nest and "viva voce."

>352 LizzieD: That cuckoo one pops up more than most. I wonder what's cooking on home home on the range.

Morning, Susan. I'm not sure that I want to know what's cooking on that mountain range. The rhinostrich reminds me of my aunt and uncle who always referred to the Twin City as Minananapolis.

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'Morning, Peggy! Here's to a good Saturday!

>352 LizzieD: I particularly love the idea of rhinostriches.

The chief occupation of the inhabitants of Perth is dying.
...pretty much the chief occupation of everyone everywhere...

I got it in 5 because I hadda go fancy for pick #4 AGLOW then ALLOW.

Good night, good night, Richard and Karen! Richard, I already had the first l in place and tried "alloy" because I thought of it before "allow." I might have done that if I'd thought of them both at the same time, being fancy.

MISCELLANEOUS

What is the chief cause of divorce?
Marriage.

Everybody should not try to do everything but should do one thing well. For instance, cows can always give milk but hens cannot do this. They prefer to lay eggs.

Filtered water is water that a cow has maybe stepped in and should not be drank.

After cremation the bones were collected and put in a --moratorium.

Vertical windows rising from a slanting roof are known as dormant windows.

In Salem, 29 old women, a few of whom were men, were hung.

The phrase, "talking in the vernacular" means talking in the vestibule.

They say music hath charms to soothe the savage beast but I never notice it had any effect on me.

Write a formal note of acceptance.
"It will be a great pleasure to dine with you on Thursday, May 26, because a previous engagement prevents me which I am sorry to state."

What is meant by the Prodigality of Nature?
This means that there is always an overproduction of females of the species, and no matter how many females are produced there is always a contest over a few of them.

(I smiled at those picky hens, but the musical charms made me laugh out loud. Can anybody explain the filtered water?)

I have issues with music myself. That water needs filtering, for sure, even if stepping in it was all the cows did.

'Morning, Peggy! I hope you have a good day.

Unsweet tea last night for dinner makes for a wide-awake Karen before it's light out.

Sorry about the tea, Karen. Hope you can include a nap in your day after Jenna leaves.
Morning, Susan. For some reason last night I was reading the filtered water wrong, and I won't even bother to try to explain how. Good day to you!

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GEOGRAPHY

The Greeks wore scandals on their feet.

The early Teutonic tribes lived a Semitic life.

In what general direction do the rivers of France flow?
From the source to the mouth.

The general direction of the Alps is straight up.

Manhattan Island was bought from the Indians for about $24 and now I don't suppose you could buy it for $500.

The United States are mostly populated by people.

The State of Virginia was named for the virgin Mary, who afterward married Capt. John smith.

What is the Sound west of the state of Washington?
The sound of the ocean.

Canadians raise boll weevils for their wool.

Where is Cincinnati?
Fourth place in the league.

Floods from the Mississippi may be prevented by putting big dames in the river.

Denver is just below the O in Colorado.

They don't raise anything in Kansas but Alpaca Grass, and they have to irritate that to make it grow.

The benefit of longitude and latitude is that when a man is drowning he can call out what latitude and longitude he is in and we can find him.

Have a wonderful week, Peggy!

>361 LizzieD: So now the fat lady must not only sing, she must act as flood control. But does the Alpaca Grass give better wool than the boll weevils?

>361 LizzieD: & >363 quondame: But you would never hear her singing west of Washington due to the crashing waves of that otherwise peace loving ocean.

>323 LizzieD: (Still talking about pudding)
My mother's nickname for me was, and still is, "tuppence pudding". And sometimes "my little tuppence pudding". I have no idea why. She probably calls me other things too, but that one was brought to my attention with all the pudding talk!

When you talk about your old friends whose parents called her "Pud"- now *that* reminds me of a boy in Lenny's rugby league team. His name is Pura (nothing unusual for us there, as it is a Maori name), but because of the way that the name is pronounced his nickname is also "Pud"! Don't you just love language!?

Back to speak later! I've spent a stupidly long time on today's Wordle!

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>366 LizzieD: *I*, OTOH, got it in three so there nyah.

Canadians raise boll weevils for their wool.
I'm trying to reverse engineer this to get to the original question, or the information that got stored in this...unusual...misunderstanding.

Gloat away, Richard. You'd think that having gotten 3 letters, 1 in the right place, I might have gotten it in two. Didn't. Who knows what goes on in the minds of children who can't read, don't listen, and don't have much vocabulary?

Hi, Megan! "Tuppence Pudding!" Just love it, and yes, I also love language - and names!!!!! I was thinking of nicknames of girls I knew a couple of days ago. I've forgotten one at the moment (it will come back to me), but the other was still Dinky Coons in college.

HA HA, Susan and Paul!

Hi, Stasia! Good week to you too!!!!!

MISCELLANEOUS

Owing to slackness of demand there was a great slut on the market.

A Scout is a friend to all and a bother to every other scout.

Their motive was either to die or to perish in the war. They lacked the spirit of Sprit-de-Corp.

A sincere friend is one who says nasty things to your face, instead of saying them behind your back.

A saga was a pitiless warrior but a kind and loving husband.

Citizens of the United states may be either male of female upon reaching the age of twenty-one, if of good moral character.

Farmers rotate their crops so that they may get sun on all sides.

At Tunbridge Wells and Bath loathing, gambling, and drinking were enjoyed by the rich society people.

The nobles had the privilege of extinction from taxation.

One good road law of New Jersey is: Always keep on the right side of every one.

One becomes a citizen of the U.S. first by being born here, second by the smelting pot.

Hard water is bad for household uses because it scratches the furniture.

>368 LizzieD: Such riches! I knew there was no difference between a bother and a brother! Sincerity is often over rated. And boy is floodwater ever hard.

Hi Peggy!

>368 LizzieD: Ah yes, the smelting pot. I’m glad my ancestors came here to be smelted.

I got Wordle in 3 today. Such a simple thing that brings such pleasure.

Well, Karen, it seems I'm stuck on five. At least, I'm not missing out entirely. Oh well. I'm smelted and scarred by the hard water. I wouldn't know about the bother/brother, Susan, but I'd love to get a look at the great slut. Wall Street might have a few nominees.

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>371 LizzieD: It was a four day for me.

Owing to slackness of demand there was a great slut on the market.
I read these to Rob, and when I got to this one he said with great finality, "you most certainly are NOT on the market."

Heartwarming, coming from him...

In fact, that's lovely, Richard! I declare that I like your Rob.

DEFINITIONS

Robinhood is a word like boyhood or girlhood, it means to feel like a robin and hop around.

A sirloin is the only article of clothing worn by Gandhi, the leader of India.

A simile is a widening of the face when pleased.

A socialist is a man who goes to parties all the time.

A spectre is a man who doesn't believe in things like Santa Claus.

Adagio is a kind of anesthetic dancing.

Acrimony is what a man gives his divorced wife.

An adult is a man that has stopped growing at both ends but not in the middle.

Anatomy is the study of heavenly bodies.

Animal husbandry is the art of having more than one husband at the same time.

The artichoke was an ancient instrument of torture.

A bibliomaniac is a person who reads the Bible incessantly from cover to cover.

A celibate is one who cleans out cellars.

A contortionist is a lady who recites pieces.

The oracle told Laius that if he had a son, it would kill him.

(I feel a simile coming on as I recall my days of robinhood. Alas. I am a female adult.)

>373 LizzieD: Quite, although no man, and shrinking from end to end, the girth grows. Ah well, we're all made of stardust, so they say. I thought the contortions were among the listeners.

Morning, Susan. Ah well indeed!

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>373 LizzieD: Acrimony is what a man gives his divorced wife.
LOLOL
Yuh-huh.
LOL
Oh, these are so much fun!

I'm putting my eye to bed, but here are just a few more, Richard.

GEOGRAPHY

Climate is caused by the emotion of the earth around the sun.

The people of Japan ride about in jigsaws.

The plains of Siberia are roamed over by the lynx and larynx.

Lindberg is the capital of Germany.

The chief animals of Australia are the kangaroo, larkspur, boomerang, and peccadillo.

The inhabitants of ancient Egypt were called mummies.

Don Juan is a town in the West Indies.

Germany is an industrial country because the poor have nothing to do so they make lots and lots of factories.

Where is Alaska?
Alaska is not in Canada.

Spain's national musical instrument is Cascarets.

>377 LizzieD: Perhaps all the earth needs is more Prozac. To say nothing of it's non-faunal nature, how did larkspur get associated with Australia? Well, at least one Alaskan fact is clear.

Morning, Susan. As I say, who knows what goes on in the minds of teens and children?

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Happy Thursday, Peggy!

Hey, Stasia! It was a pretty good one, thank you!

SCIENCE, MMATHEMATICS, AND HEALTH

The metric system refers to kilograms, centigrams, telegrams, etc.

We make a right angle out of a straight line by bisecting the hypothesis.

A cow is very like a bull, but a bull hurts more.

What has been done to protect migratory birds?
The United States and Canada have passed a treaty saying that the birds can go south when they want, and come north when they want.

Wild beasts used once to roam at will through the whole of England and Ireland, but now wild beasts are only found in theological gardens.

The hen is a very nice animal. It is formed by other hens sitting on eggs. Ducks are brought up in the same way.

A calf has to wait a long time before he is milked.

What does a bat do in winter?
It splits if you don't oil it.

If you want to understand animals, you should think of the Eskimos. They are very fond, indeed, of their reindeer, in fact they love their reindeer sometimes more than their wives. But then, they are very useful to them.

The cow is a domestic animal all covered with leather. Her tail which hangs at the end, has a brush in order to shoo off flies, or else they would fall in the milk. The head is in front, and has horns growing on each side and allows room for the mouth. The horns are used for fighting and the mouth to roar with. When the food is good she gives good milk, but when it thunders she goes sour.

(I'm sure that the bat boy was relieved to have one answer that he knew was right. It sort of reminded me of a non-reading HS student back in the early 70s who was working with pictures and consonant blends. Under the picture of the pick-up, he wrote "fruck.")

>381 LizzieD: Really the bird treaty came about because the border control agents kept loosing the tiny stamps for the birds passports and didn't like cleaning up after the long queues of birds each evening.
I wonder what is planted in those theological gardens to attract all the beasts.

Hello, Peggy!

>381 LizzieD: All are wonderful, but I especially like “The cow is a domestic animal…”

Good morning, Susan and Karen! I thought this was a good page too.

Today's Wordle, however -----

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Have a wonderful weekend, Peggy!

Thank you, Stasia. You too!!!!

MISCELLANEOUS

And the Spartan boy gave no sign of pain, although the fox gnawed his vitamines.

To prevent head colds use an agonizer until it drops into your throat.

Tobacco lowers the mentality of the heart.

Medical men have found that there are more dead than there were.

A problem is a figure which you do things with, which are absurd, and then you prove it.

A bore is a kind of river pig, and a delta is the man who looks after it.

Horses are important in New York and Chicago as graft animals.

Algebraical symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking about.

A parallel straight line is one that when produced to meet itself does not meet.

Henry Ford invented perpetual motion.

To collect fumes of sulphur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube.

A thermometer is an instrument for raising temperance.

(The math ones sound right to me.)
(Since this is supposed to be a book thread, I'll mention that I continue to read and enjoy *Lincoln HiWay* and Queen/Sorcery.)

>386 LizzieD: That was the other Spartan boy, the one who died of scurvy. I think I'll pass on that cold remedy.

Hi Peggy! Happy Saturday to you.

>386 LizzieD: To collect fumes of sulphur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube. Ha.

Morning, Susan and Karen. I have real fellow feelings with the algebraical symbols kid and likewise the problem solver.

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LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND THE ARTS

No is the adverb of negotiation.

Put the following words in a sentence - bliss, happiness.
O bliss, O happiness!

The future of "I give" is "You take."

A passive verb is when the subject is the sufferer, as "I am loved."

Degrees of comparison of "Bad."
Bad: very sick: dead.

The masculine of vixen is vicar.

Masculine, man; feminine, woman; neuter, corpse.

Feminines" Bear, vixen; sheep, you. Masculine of ladybird: The masculine of ladybird sounds as if it ought to be gentlemanbird, but that looks funny.

The feminine of bachelor is lady in waiting.

The plural of forget-me-not is forget-us-not.

The plural of ox is oxygen.

Define the first person
Adam.

Give the passive of "John shot my dog."
"My dog shot John."

The opposite of evergreen is nevergreen.

A brazier is the kind of garment the Italians wore instead of having their houses heated by furnaces.

>390 LizzieD: John will surely be passed, or is that neuter, after that.

Morning, Susan. I think that you have to say that either John or the dog will be neutered.

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Hi Peggy!

>390 LizzieD: My fav: Give the passive of "John shot my dog." "My dog shot John."

>392 LizzieD: Yesterday's and today's Wordles were tricky.