Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 18, 2010

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    FLIGHT SUIT  about 14 years ago

    Don’t worry dude, just do what I do:

    Break out the Andrea Dworkin quotes!

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    grapfhics  about 14 years ago

    at least my great circles are straight

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    Steve Bartholomew  about 14 years ago

    Why would a puffin be interested in sundials?

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    <95>  about 14 years ago

    Won’t give him the time of day, huh?

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    grapfhics  about 14 years ago

    ars gratia artis

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    Sisyphos  about 14 years ago

    Seriously, who’d want to mate with such an intellectual snob?!

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    luezer  about 14 years ago

    You give up too easily. Come back with “So you think I’m eloquent and complete, do you?”

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    *Hot Rod*  about 14 years ago

    Making love by the garden gate, Love is blind but the neighbors ain’t.

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    drbob456  about 14 years ago

    Q: “Do you know what time it is in Montego Bay?”

    A: “Gnomon.”

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    LocoOwl  about 14 years ago

    I’m still not sure what gnomonology is…. sigh.

    There are days my ignorance exceeds my reach!

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    LocoOwl  about 14 years ago

    Great posts on the blog today!

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    Rotifer FREE BEER & BATH MATS ON FEB. 31! Thalweg Premium Member about 14 years ago

    Apropos of nothing in particular:

    “The Wordnik Word of the Day for August 18, 2010 is gamashes A protection for the shoes, hose, etc., from mud and rain, worn especially by horsemen in the seventeenth century. They appear to have been sometimes of the nature of boots and sometimes of the nature of leggings. Also gamaches.

    ‘Gamashes’ come from the Italian, ‘gamba,’ meaning ‘leg,’ and are also known as … [wait for it] …

    ’spatterdashes.’

    Example: ‘By it are boots of all sizes, buskins, gamashes, brodkins, gambadoes, shoes, pumps, slippers, and every cobbled ware wrought and made steadable for the use of man.’ Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Francois Rabelais”

    (tell the truth: how many of us woke up this morning expecting to see the words “brodkin,” “gambadoes,” “steadable,” and “spatterdashes” used in a sentence today?)

    Spatterdashes! The new spork!
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    joefish25  about 14 years ago

    I did!

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    Rotifer FREE BEER & BATH MATS ON FEB. 31! Thalweg Premium Member about 14 years ago

    What about “buskins?” Did you expect to see “buskins?”

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    jpozenel  about 14 years ago

    No wonder you never see confident looking puffins.

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    madbristowart  about 14 years ago

    Hey, I’ve gotten that line before and it hurts like hell.

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    rotts  about 14 years ago

    @ Rolfer Thalweg - let alone “Gargantua and Pantagruel”! Nice reference, BTW.

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    Ushindi  about 14 years ago

    I know I’M never going to mate with Teresa if she keeps making me look up words so I sort of know what’s going on…

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    sandboil  about 14 years ago

    Ushindi. My guess is that it’s Teresa’s call on whether she will allow you to mate with her. Nighthawks and Vlad might have a problem with you too.

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    sandboil  about 14 years ago

    Does this word have something to do with gnomes using sundials? I’m really confused.

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    zoomhey  about 14 years ago

    He’s huffin and a puffin for nothing.

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    CoBass  about 14 years ago

    @locoowl, @sandboil

    A gnomon is the part of a sundial that cats the shadow. So, by extension, gnomonology would be the study of gnomons.

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    olmail  about 14 years ago

    once again i am thankful for google.

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    trekkermint  about 14 years ago

    it’s a cross dressing duck

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