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1. about 13 hours ago on Nancy

   Is it a giant squid? Or just an Octopus Illusion?

2. about 13 hours ago on Wallace the Brave
   I’m thinking “Lawks!”

   Or “Oh, Law….”

   Or “That’s so punk rock.”

3. 1 day ago on Gil Thorp

   I suggest a class in remedial reading.

4. 1 day ago on Gil Thorp

   I’ll go if you follow. Pearls before swine and all that.

5. 1 day ago on Gil Thorp

   isbndun

6. 1 day ago on Gil Thorp

   I’ll bet you’re great at Twister.

7. 1 day ago on Gil Thorp

   I referenced separating wheat from chaff. As in the Biblical sense. I’m disinclined to deny myself the good stuff by throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

8. 1 day ago on Gil Thorp

   If there is a simple way to hide specific individual posters, I’d happily do that. It’s the messy sorting through to separate the wheat from the chaff that I find disheartening.

9. 1 day ago on Breaking Cat News

   Yes. Gruntle, gruntled, and gruntlement are all acceptable in some contexts and may or may not become fully so, such is the flux and flow of language. I remember when using “contact” as a verb could result in a red X and the comment, “You can be in contact with someone but you cannot contact someone.”

   Likewise with various deployments of “mantle.” Once it referred to a piece of clothing and later to protective coverings over machinery. Earliest uses of “dismantle” referred to stripping away clothing or parts of machinery and later to taking something apart. A monarch may be said to be “mantled” as they may be said to be “crowned.”

10. 1 day ago on Gil Thorp

    Harvey?