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Also because, lacking a grail-shaped beacon, it's the best we can do to call out in the darkness to our hito.

And a honey pot would be ineffective.

Very neat. Who was Chaucer? From the foul-mouthed Miller to the prim Prioress, only Chaucer could have dreamed up a group as diverse as the Canterbury pilgrims. But how much do we know about the founding father of English letters? http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/24/who-was-chaucer-canterbury-tales

Cajuns, at that. Might have known.

Never heard of it til those pics. One hopes not. PS But apparently it is real: http://wgno.com/2014/05/19/johnny-sansones-recipe-for-white-beans-and-cabbage/

Hah! And just noticed your note re the joint being way out in Mudville. What a picture.

Like when Rhoda redecorated Lou Grant's living room in all white!

LIKE!!! Those furniture covers will preserve it for seventy times seven years.

We want to see His snickersnee!

I feel the same way.

You must introduce me to your pharmacologist.

PS Not relevant, just an interesting bit from farther down the same site... Untouched Paris Apartment Discovered after 70 years. Includes Painting worth $3.4M http://twistedsifter.com/2014/01/untouched-paris-apartment-discovered-after-70-years/

Stunning 2200-Year-Old Mosaics Discovered in Ancient Greek City http://twistedsifter.com/2014/11/2200-year-old-mosaics-discovered-in-ancient-greek-city/ The city's name, btw, is Zeugma, which is also the name of an interesting "figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g., John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts )." http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-zeugma.html http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeugma

Sure, blame me for everything. ...The expression nostalgie de la boue was first used in the 1855 play Le Mariage d'Olympe by French playwright Emile Augier. A former courtesan marries a nobleman and tries to pass herself off as a lady, but she cannot escape her craving for her previous base tastes. Here are the relevant speeches from Act I: LE MARQUIS: Mettez un canard sur un lac au milieu des cygnes, vous verrez qu'il regrettera sa mare et finira par y retourner. (Put a duck on a lake in the middle of swans, and you'll see that he will miss his pond and end up going back there) MONTRICHARD: La nostalgie de la boue! http://virtuallinguist.typepad.com/the_virtual_linguist/2009/07/nostalgie-de-la-boue.html