January 28, 2012

duchy, the domain of a duke. county, the domain of a count. Therefore, ‘Dracula County.’

When Mr. Lai’s colleagues ran outside, dark smoke was mixing with a light rain

Postman Pat themed prawn cocktail corn snacks

Other sweet onions such as the crystal wax

A minced oath is an expression based on a profanity or a taboo term that has been altered to reduce the objectionable characteristics.

Criminy or crimony is an alteration of Christ’s money, the thirty pieces of silver in exchange for which Judas betrayed Jesus

there are plenty of me where I came from

The term “copy-protection” is pretty misleading. Speaking as a former systems administrator, the way I “protect” stuff is by making copies

purple nutsedge

#f4f4ff

Among keen anglers there are about only 20 carp that can be seriously called “household names”. Benson was near the top of that league. The thing that made Benson famous was her accessibility.

A liquid craze is sweeping across our nation from the south. This infectious drink has been carried across continents and language barriers, through millenniums, and by all types of people. I also hear it is trendy in Manhattan.
The title that best sums up this drink process is “Horchata.”

A philosopher-mathematician loaded with explosives, lucid and reckless, resolute without optimism. If that’s not a hero, what is a hero?

‘Can it!’ as in ‘preserve that sentiment in a can until some future time when it will be required’

something covert and beautiful about the specificity of ‘The Middle East’

The tuning imperfections introduced by Equal Temperament make barbershop music impossible on the piano.

Barbershop quartets sound like being skinned feels.

In light of this evidence, how could anyone believe that this exemplary officer, whose military career was spotless, whose beautiful penmanship and flourished signature can still be admired, might have donned the ragged clothing of a loner and a rambler, been branded as a cowardly deserter from a besieged fort ?

no one really has an effect on anyone

Wind-dried beef

Rousong (肉鬆), also sometimes called meat wool, meat floss, pork floss, pork sung

In the southern United States, the product of boiling sealed cans of sweetened condensed milk is also called “Danger Pudding.”

Impatient troops would eat it in the dark to avoid seeing what they were consuming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Lead_(Italy)

In the summer of 1992, the author WG Sebald, “irradiated by melancholy”, set off on a physical and philosophical wander through the Suffolk countryside

mayonnaise was invented 4 years before the sandwich

J. R. Simplot Company

Dolomedes tenebrosus

the strange and similar reactions of Samuel Beckett to being stabbed and Werner Herzog to being shot

“Let There Be Darkness, Please; When Mercury Is at Quadrature, the Social Director Is a Lonely Man For Two Extremely Short Minutes Everyone Gaped Into the Sky”

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