And the Good Doctor treated with "dazzle" here
https://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/word/dazzle

Here in Japan there are stores called 100 yen stores where most items are priced at 100 yen. Admittedly, you will only get one sheet or paper or one piece of whatever for your 100 yen.

When I saw this I thought of Shakespeare, as I often do when I see a cliche. But it was not he, so my thoughts turned to his contemporary, Ben Jonson. But again it was not he. In his praise of Shakespeare, he wrote He was not of an age but for all time! and narrowly avoided the cliche. A link to Ben...

How do you punctuate
Eats shoots and leaves
How many commas would you advocate
or the famous passage that begins
yes because he never did a thing like that before as ask to get his breakfast in bed with a couple of eggs since . . . yes

I put "turnip size" in the search box and came up with this The longest turnip (Brassica rapa) measured 4.605 m (15 ft 1.3 in) and was presented by its grower Joe Atherton (UK) at the CANNA UK National Giant Vegetables Championship at the Malvern Autumn Show, held at the Three Counties Sho...

If the game we now know as "Lawn Tennis" was invented and the equipment patented in 1874, to what game was Shakespeare referring in his plays? Henry V, Act I, scene ii EXETER Tennis-balls, my liege. KING HENRY V We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us; His present and your pains we ...

It just occurred to me that you, Slava, are engaged in a little project to ensure that no post on the Agora is "left on read"

According to Dictionary dot com (an apparent rival and perhaps an early associate of this page) Left on Read means In internet slang, a person is left on read when a recipient has read, but not responded to, a sender’s message. The expression is often used to express feeling ignored. https://www.dic...

I am surprised to see neither "coffee" nor "cafe" as been discussed. I have long since heard of Kaldi, the goat herd, in what is now Ethiopia who observed his goats getting frisky after eating fresh coffee beans and who then decided to try them himself. (NB "Kaldi" is n...

Wouldn't FIDEism be the basis for accepting FIDE's evaluation of the cheating allegations in the match between Hans Niemann and Magnus Carlsen?

You could build your own collection of favorites by getting a book of famous quotations from the library, reading through some of the quotations there, looking them up on the internet or elsewhere and printing them out for fuller context. My book of quotations has fifteen pages of Shakespearian quot...

"Wrenching" might be a coined expression among some people I know who were making ends meet in the semi-underground economy as shade tree mechanics. They would say "I spent the morning wrenching on this beat up Toyota with a frozen wheel bearing "

And there is "birding" which means hunting for birds, to shot them in some circles and, in others, to look at them. bbeeton, maybe "whaling" will go under a similar evolution. I note "fishing," "whaling" and "birding" are gerunds, and while the verb ...

Could a circumambulate be a subset of perambulate? Could all circumambulations be perambulations but not vice versa? If, for example, Slava were to walk half way around Moscow in a clockwise direction (city center to his right) and returned to his starting point in a counter clockwise direction (cit...

Sounds like the fellow was a bit of a gaucho.