Heard today in the local grocery store: a gentleman to his
wife on noticing a young man ahead of him in checkout line:
"It's a tad bit cold (temp was +12) to be wearing a muscle
shirt and shorts today".

I here " a tad bit windy" here as well.

I remember playing in elementary school.
Heaven knows who brought the forbidden knife
to class.

"God created man in his image,
in the divine image he created him:
male and female he created them".


Gn.1:27

I'm with you on that one Phil, Nebraskan's would just stare at you.

Me too, Phil.

And in the 'for what it's worth' department
Hawai'i should have the apostrophe, as it is
a vowel in their language. So in this age of
diversity we should respect them.

often seen advertised in catalogs of electronic thigamajigs

Going back to the original Latin declension bit, and tying in with throat clearing, we do have the highly irregular Latin verb:

spitto, spittere, hocktui, splatum.

The best I've heard in months. Bravo

Thanks, slava.

I've seen 'hough' - what is that?
I cannot remember the context, except maybe as one of the
'ough' words.

I am reminded of Star Trek's Spock being able to 'meld'
two minds to share one in his Mind Meld, His father, Sarek,
did so with Jean-Luc Picard as well.

The royal family of the Netherlands is the House of Orange-Nassau.
King Willem-Alexander often wears an Orange necktie and Queen
Maxima accessorizes in Orange. When visiting the provinces
school children greet them with orange flags and flowers.