For Those Who Already Know
Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom.
…Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Daffy-nition
Blunt person: One who says what he thinks without thinking.
From the Word Lab
In Armenian ham is taste and pouyr is fragrance. Put them together and hampouyr is kiss. (A tip of the hat to Lucine.)
A Memory
When I was as high as that
I saw a poet in his hat.
I think the poet must have smiled
At such a solemn gazing child.
Now wasn’t it a funny thing
To get a sight of J.M. Synge,
And notice nothing but his hat?
Yet life is often queer like that.
…L.A.G. Strong
From the Trivia File
22 cigarettes are smoked in the movie Casablanca.
From My Persian Dictionary
Karafs: celery.
Bakkál: chandler, grocer.
Arzán: cheap.
Panír: cheese.
What’s in a Name?
Kirjilian: Turkish in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, kirjil, a variant of kurchul, is defined as sprinkled with gray.
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