Bless your grandfather, he was so right.
Cannot be on both sides of the fence, be hot or cold, not
lukewarm.

That I did not know. I appreciate it. Syncretizing religions is popular lots of places. We had an athiest state legislator who, back in the 80's was pushing for the state to pay student athletes, still is for that matter. And his comment (repeated today in our local news rag) is " In this state...

Now Phil, if you had known more about Native Americans in those
days you'd have known a medicine bag was part of their culture.
You can see it in all the movies. You would have fit right in.

I don't think we'll find it around here, but I am going to try.

Calve has been used in the last couple of years in relation
to icebergs that are the size of Manhattan,NY, breaking
off ice sheets in Antarctica. Good catch, George.

Isn't someone supposed to be putting a telescope on the
dark side of the moon? Maybe in my senility I just dreamed that.

Appreciate your looking up and posting the word, Slava.
When it's used here the meteorologist just look at the camera
and pretend we all know what they are talking about. I'd love
to catch the Weather Channel with it: but cannot personally
abide weather reports. Looking out the window suffices.

Can't contribute much to this conversation as the word is
totally unknown to me.

Luke, you can't get away with that! Definition, or at least explanation/description, please. Debby Well, not being one to ever listen, unless I get caught, to any weather reporter, it is a little difficult for me. A chief meteorologist gets paid around $120,000 annually (or so I hear) and they are ...

Sounds like a created word when they have nothing else
to use to describe something that they cannot describe.
In this neck of the woods we have lots of them, i.e.
popcorn showers. Go figure.

Around here we call them "SCROANERS'
a combination of GROAN and SCREECH .

Slava, I totally agree with your concept of desecration in a
'dogeared' book. Abhorrent.

I could not agree more. Language is forever changing, and
it can lose this word without any remorse.

Hi Debbie:
Happy Summer and thanks