Lio by Mark Tatulli for December 04, 2015

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 9 years ago

    Oh, that quote “dead as a door nail.”

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    Pedmar Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    I wonder why we say “dead as a door nail.” I think a better expression would be “dead as a coffin nail.” It’s no more or less accurate, but has a more poetic connotation.

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    Sisyphos  almost 9 years ago

    Thinking of leaving little “calling cards,” Grim Reaper? Like Paladin’s famed “Have Gun, Will Travel” cards? Cute. Maybe not sufficiently scary if the Chosen doesn’t recognize a door nail….

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    john.kalter  almost 9 years ago

    Why is there a Venus Fly Trap in a Hardware store?

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    Plods with ...™  almost 9 years ago

    Oh good. They’re on sale.

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    Retired Dude  almost 9 years ago

    Made me laugh out loud.

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    rshive  almost 9 years ago

    Even the Grim Reaper has his DIY needs.

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    brightshade  almost 9 years ago

    A little background on “Dead as a Doornail” http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/04/origin-phrase-dead-doornail/

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    Larry Miller Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    I just figured Death’s Door needed repairs.

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    kapearlman  almost 9 years ago

    Maybe he just needs them for his manicure. I don’t think he has nails…

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    Sharon Hayes  almost 9 years ago

    I see Lio is buying Seymour.

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    neverenoughgold  almost 9 years ago

    OMG! He’s visiting my old hardware store!

    Oh, the stories I could tell of strange customers and customer requests…

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    vanaals  almost 9 years ago

    That’s not Seymour. That’s Audrey 3. And maybe, Lio has brought Audrey along for some holiday shopping?

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    26  almost 9 years ago

    Death must be doing reference work.

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    Mike Parsons Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    Door nails are dead and deadly, good tools for the Reaper.

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    Dr_Fogg  almost 9 years ago

    Thought for a smoker…

    It’s not the coughing that carries you oftenIt’s the coffin they carry you off in.

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    abbybookcase  almost 9 years ago

    “whatever you do, don’t feed the plant”dad,s least favorite show (dentists lose their sense of humor for this stuff after a while)

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    Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    Subtle! Took me a few seconds to get it! Well done!

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    Thomas & Tifffany Connolly  almost 9 years ago

    It’s comforting to think that death would take care of those small things.

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    JR6019  almost 9 years ago

    What Pedmar said earlier, was almost exactly what is said in the opening of A Christmas Carol.

    Marley was dead as a doornail. Mind, I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail, I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors in in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the country’s done for.

    I’ve played both Scrooge and Marley in various local productions.

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