Parish_boy, while you are in the New York area you may notice some of the natives there are just as cavalier in their use or lack of use of "r's".

Mark

Mostly what I've heard is that Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner is more Urban while Breakfast, Dinner, & Supper is Rural. But I hear that Supper is used in Urban settings to indicate a very late meal as well.

mark

Whoa, another Kibosh, see how we get to use all our new words!

mark

I shop with friends who love to shop, I don't care much for shopping, but I love buying. I have no abulia, I see, I grab, I pay for, and take it home to enjoy the de-bagging of.

mark

I believe this bat's wool to be as fine as the frog's hair.

mark

Something got me to thinking about Lederhosen, that took me to hose>stockings, however lederhosen are not hose by any means but shorts with suspenders. From English to German <<hose>> goes to SCHLAUCH, STRUMPFWAREN, KNIEHOSE, HOSE, ABSPRITZEN, SPRITZEN , and hose from German to English I get TROUSER...

"women who must "put on their face" before setting foot outside.

-gailr"
Eleanor Rigby, we are told; kept hers in a jar by the door for such contingency.

mark

I forget, was it eye of newt and foot of frog then bubble, bubble toil and trouble?

mark

while browsing the dictionary I found this: glabella "space between the eyebrows," 1598, Mod.L., lit. fem. of adj. glabellus "without hair, smooth," dim. of glaber "smooth, bald," cognate with O.E. glæd "bright, shining, joyous" (see glad). glabella - a smooth...

would they be fritoes?

mark

gormless

I'm wondering if this frog's hailstorm might have 'come up a frog strangler'?

I just noticed this thread, then overheard on Boston Legal: William Shatner, the token (and appropriately crazed Republican) "Morales are what the elite impose on the hoi polloi to keep them in line." I will not go as far as to use the classic "you people" but we are better right...

Hard to tell what he meant without letting us in on the context. If a frog were batting his eyes in response to a bad hail storm, he'd be having a bit less of a reaction than I would. In my experience I tend to run when under attack by the forces of nature.