Fascinating! Yes, historically "store bought" has been considered to be better. I didn't know about the "get the cook involved thing", I will ask my wife she works in that realm peripherally. I remember as a little kid in Germany, I always wanted the cake from the bakery for my b...

So are the stone carvings of the Babylonians and Egyptians petroglyphs too? Or is a crude workmanship implied?

I myself am an aficionado of all things made from "scratch". I have gone through phases where I have tried to make everything from this plastic like material. I have rolled it out flat, mashed it lumpy, beaten it tender, crushed it to dust, burned and charred it over heat from wood fire to...

Well, I am on the fence on this. Harken is how I like this to be spelled, but Hearken makes more sense.

it is closely related to the concept of "noblesse oblige", where generosity is a requirement of the nobility. A responsibility of privileged (rich) people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privileged.

So my garden is a swink-hole?

CIRCUITOUS, a. Going round in a circuit; not direct; as a circuitous road or course. (src: Webster 1828) So this a word's meaning is less going round a circuit, but taking an in direct route. It is almost de rigueur say "circuitous route". Google reports there are 669K instances of the wor...

All I know is the raven, goose, and egg came before the quill-pen and parchment.

not happening again; never again. This 12th century word may have little in inherent history, but it's heart wrenching Gothic usage by Edgar Allen in his "The Raven" makes it a super-star among words. I personally hear the word and a mental storm arises where it is pounding in my mind and ...

I wonder if this is one of those things where one says, "Someday friend we will look back at this and laugh."

I wonder if this is one of those things where one says, "Someday friend we will look back at this and laugh."

Stress that makes you better.

"Want" always bring to mind one of my favorite books and quotes... 'Spirit. are they yours.' Scrooge could say no more. 'They are Man's,' said the Spirit, looking down upon them. 'And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both...

Immanuel Kant wrote a "Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics", if the prolegomena has more then one subject it examine there is no reason it shouldn't be plural.

A critical or discursive introduction to a text.

I got Dame Edna's Bedside Companion book and it has a "Prolegomena by Beverley Nichols" instead of a Preface. Mr. Nichols is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. Sorry I missed him, at least we still have Dame Edna.