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5:04 AM

Guess most word lovers are out there writing rather than in here. I edit others' writing as if lives were at stake. But my writing is for sport, all levels invited, and every game ends in a tie.

Today's topic: What the moon?

Rather, how to describe various phases? Three days ago it was shut eyes.

Two days ago it was barely a wink.

Yesterday it was an eyelash!

Just now it was the most beautiful corn nail clipping the horizon.

Tomorrow it might be a smile, then a grin, leading up to a full beam.

(Other prefabricated ph(r)ases omitted for the sake of a vacuum.)

4 hours later…

humn

9:10 AM

Really, no nibbles? How many of us have been told to fuck off by cops? How many have seen a moonset and be lost for words? Why hasn't this chat room been frozen for inactivity?

Rand al'Thor

10:02 AM

@humn That's what you get for being too modest :-)

@humn The moon is a silver sliver in the sky.

humn

Spectacular!

Rand al'Thor

@humn I've been fortunate enough not to have many unpleasant encounters with cops; moonrise can be a wondrous sight to behold; and if there are more chatters around, I'm happy to help try to bring this room back to life :-)

Putting the two together, perhaps you should moon at some cops.

humn

10:20 AM

You are such a delight, @Rand al'Thor, I'd take your advice and go moon a cop or two if only I hadn't earlier and lived to tell. Life is so much easier on foot than behind the wheel. There's no excuse to be pulled over.

Rand al'Thor

As a non-driver, I agree.

humn

Lucky!

(That's the punch line to some joke, about a dog that got hit by a meteor and survived)

Rand al'Thor

Did the dog have no nose?

humn

You're asking for it: No one nos.

Rand al'Thor

Your nose knows nosething, Jon Snose.

humn

10:24 AM

Language!

Just guess at how much you delight an editor who has wrestled down truckloads of desperadoes.

Professional lives were at stake!

Rand al'Thor

Wordplay is the spice of lifenguage.

humn

Syllable by syllable, slowly I turned.

(If you've been spared driving, have you also been spared spousing? The plural of spouse is spice.)

(that should've been in quotes)

(No need to answer in any case. Just a quip.)

Rand al'Thor

Heh, nice one!

You know the joke about the Scotsman at the zoo?

humn

About to (I'm 1/4 Scots, so I should)

Rand al'Thor

He asks a zookeeper about the name of this large deer thing. The zookeeper says it's a moose. The Scotsman says, "A moose! Och, they must have rats like elephants here!"

humn

10:32 AM

Hoot!

Ohhhh, language.

Just to be nerdly, a radio show reminded me of two sticky words:

"nostalgia" and "foible"

Say those ten times rapidly.

Reading back, the classic moon reference is to a chesire smile. I suspect that's a circumstantial reference but have no idea and am too lazy to go ogle.

(okay, now i'm scanning)

(got the spelling wrong and everything: Cheshire?)

(Oh by the way, Rand, my salutation of "voi" in the old country means "butter" but it was also an attempt to salute you in both French and Latin in a squirrely way.)

Rand al'Thor

That's too many layers of meaning for me :-P

hones riddling skills

humn

Long as you get the gist. And maybe I do too.

Rand al'Thor

Anyway, @humn, I'm afraid I must be off again.

Until another time, 'tis au revoir.

humn

Git while the gettin's good! Thank you for a spark of life here.

9 hours later…

humn

7:33 PM

How I love bad writing! Perhaps the way a fire fighter loves a fire.

Heard of Bulwer-Lytton?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873), was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", "dweller on the threshold", and the well-known opening line "It was a dark and stormy night". == Life == Bulwer-Lytton was born on 25 May 1803 to General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and ...

Today's entry, courtesy of time machine, from the TV show Maverick:

"I only did what had to be done. Now get busy, we have a job to do."

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