In high school I was the "official" ditto person. The school was tired of breakdowns of the machine, the old "too many cooks" bit. So they had all teachers put their work in a wire basket, and after school I got to work. I knew the machine and could fix it after a number of hiccu...

I kissed it, but going to the top of that castle was bloody awful. And then you sit down, grab hold of the bars to hold you as you lean back and kiss the stone upside down and backwards is not something I'd recommend. I'm half Irish but more and more I'm agreeing with my mother, I've enough blarney ...

They most certainly did.

Excellent video, Doc. thanks for providing that. I have been there, kissed it, and tried to get my mother to climb to the top to do so as well, but she insisted (being a McCarthy herself) that she had enough blarney to go around without climbing all those steps necessary to kiss the thing, which as ...

And we must not forget the scud missles in
the Desert Storm war.

Or now, sadly, Ukraine.

. One incident was with a dear teacher, who I respected greatly, but with whom I argued that a civil war poet wrote poems about the civil war. She averred that a Civil War poet lived during the civil war. The poet in question was Lanier who is one of my favorites. Most interesting Philip. I had man...

The movie "Cromwell" is currently on Netflix with Richard Harris
in the lead. No pushover. He ruled with an iron hand for six years, and
as the movie says at the end "Britain has never been the same".

Good one, Deb. Certain sounds drive me insane, so I identify well.

I once saw it use in reference to an incorrigible
boy outside the principal's office where his
parents were meeting with said school head.
He sat in "funereal silence".

I had totally forgotten about that make/model.
Thanks for the memory.

Isn't the word ostentatious rather ostentatious?

Ditto: Happy Handsel Monday and Happy New Year to all.

Debbie