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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
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Q: Meaning of "may I be twice damned for a bank-clerk or store hand" in "I hight Don Quixote", a poem by Parsons

CopperKettleFrom I Hight Don Quixote: They said I was crazy, ambiguous, lazy, disgusting, fantastic, obscene; So I hied for my sagebrush and cactus and corn mush, To see if the air was still clean. Oh, I hight Don Quixote, I live on peyote, marihuana, morphine and cocaine, And may I be twice...

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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
08:39
> For the last several years Kostadin Kushlev, a psychology research scientist at the University of Virginia, has been dissecting the effects of smartphones on society through rigorous research published in peer-reviewed journals. His findings are alarming. The devices create ADHD-like symptoms in users, diminish happiness in social settings, erode trust between strangers and harm connections between parents and their children.
 
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ColleenV
ColleenV
10:04
Daily idiom: "Throw me a bone" Francis reflected in 2004 that during the recording of the group's second album Doolittle he felt embarrassed by "Here Comes Your Man", but since producer Gil Norton really liked the song, the songwriter "threw him a bone". *
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user1732
user1732
10:16
idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Throw+me+a+bone!
they have an "Idiom of The Day" subscription :-)
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
11:49
Medical term of the day: hypnic jerk
 
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Anonymous
13:30
As in: "That hypnic jerk is always sleeping on the job! What a blindwormlike desultory moggie."
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user2236
user2236
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@snailboat what do you think about putting an RSS feed in this room for "The idiom of the day"?
or even a word of the day
 
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userr2684291
userr2684291
18:50
I think that's a good idea.
But that won't stop this room's visitors from posting their words of the day disirregardless, so it'll just... catalyze the topsy-turvy situation we've already got.
Wait a minute, that's a blindworm?
Hah, we have a similar name for it.
Okay so, when I was a kid (4–5) I caught one of these by its tail (okay the whole thing is a tail) and I brought it straight home. I walked with it into the kitchen and showed it to my mom, who freaked out. I don't remember what happened next but my dad put it in a transparent, plastic bucket and then we watched it wriggle helplessly before we let it slither away. I asked him if it were really blind when he told me its name.
It jerks its body rather violently when it moves; it didn't glide smoothly. I remember that (maybe it was just scared, though).
 
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user1732
user1732
21:29
Anguis fragilis
> The "slow-" in slowworm is distinct from the English adjective slow ("not fast"); the word comes from Old English slāwyrm, where slā- means 'earthworm' or 'slowworm' and wyrm means "serpent, reptile". ("Slowworm". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2017.)
Anguis fragilis
Anguis fragilis, the slowworm, is a legless lizard native to Eurasia. It is also called a blindworm, deaf adder or, regionally, a long-cripple; to distinguish it from the Peloponnese slowworm, it is also sometimes called a common slowworm. The 'blind' in 'blindworm' refers to the lizard's small eyes, similar to a blindsnake (although the slowworm's eyes are functional). Slowworms are semifossorial (burrowing) lizards, spending much of the time hiding underneath objects. The skin of slowworms is smooth with scales that do not overlap one another. Like many other lizards, slowworms autotomize, meaning...

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