Mysterious6030
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Haven’t figured out just who I’ll be here, so this will just have to do for now. (Knowing me, I hope I change this before 2030)
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NPR was reporting how 65% of Americans believe that professional sports players change their behavior depending on what's the bookies think the results will be
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
NPR was reporting how 65% of Americans believe that professional sports players change their behavior depending on what's the bookies think the results will be
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Free For All
"In the future, the World Finance League exists to benefit all, randomly choosing those from among the billionaires and trillionaires of the world and presenting them with a choice: Either donate half of their assets to the common good—or defend them in ritual combat."
"In the future, the World Finance League exists to benefit all, randomly choosing those from among the billionaires and trillionaires of the world and presenting them with a choice: Either donate half of their assets to the common good—or defend them in ritual combat."
November 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Free For All
"In the future, the World Finance League exists to benefit all, randomly choosing those from among the billionaires and trillionaires of the world and presenting them with a choice: Either donate half of their assets to the common good—or defend them in ritual combat."
"In the future, the World Finance League exists to benefit all, randomly choosing those from among the billionaires and trillionaires of the world and presenting them with a choice: Either donate half of their assets to the common good—or defend them in ritual combat."
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This is a really great poem about onions from 1989.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Onions
It’s true it can make you weep to peel them, to unfurl and to tease from the taut ball first the brittle, caramel-colored and decrepit papery outside layer, the least recent the reticent onion wrapped...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This is a really great poem about onions from 1989.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Friday Vocabulary for the 45th Friday of 2025:
“Serving God is Doing Good to Man, but Praying is thought an easier Service, and therefore more generally chosen.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Serving God is Doing Good to Man, but Praying is thought an easier Service, and therefore more generally chosen.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Friday Vocabulary
1. iconoclast — destroyer of religious images; one who criticizes or attacks orthodoxy; independent thinker
Jocelyn was such a staunch iconoclast she refused the invitation of Mr. Kipling, lest she be...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Friday Vocabulary for the 45th Friday of 2025:
“Serving God is Doing Good to Man, but Praying is thought an easier Service, and therefore more generally chosen.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Serving God is Doing Good to Man, but Praying is thought an easier Service, and therefore more generally chosen.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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🎶 Soy objetos de valor
In the Louvre, baby,
So why don't you steal me
In the Louvre, baby,
So why don't you steal me
October 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
🎶 Soy objetos de valor
In the Louvre, baby,
So why don't you steal me
In the Louvre, baby,
So why don't you steal me
Friday Vocabulary for the 44th Friday of 2025:
“I wish that on the day my mother bore me
A windstorm had swept me away to a mountain
Or into the waves of the restless sea,
Swept me away before all this could happen.”
— Homer, Iliad, VI.363-366 (Lombardo translation)
“I wish that on the day my mother bore me
A windstorm had swept me away to a mountain
Or into the waves of the restless sea,
Swept me away before all this could happen.”
— Homer, Iliad, VI.363-366 (Lombardo translation)
Friday Vocabulary
1. corm — [botany] swollen stem of plant serving as storage organ, bulbotuber
Transforming your corm into a burgeoning banana plant is a labor of love and ... well, labor, which is the reason for the ...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Friday Vocabulary for the 44th Friday of 2025:
“I wish that on the day my mother bore me
A windstorm had swept me away to a mountain
Or into the waves of the restless sea,
Swept me away before all this could happen.”
— Homer, Iliad, VI.363-366 (Lombardo translation)
“I wish that on the day my mother bore me
A windstorm had swept me away to a mountain
Or into the waves of the restless sea,
Swept me away before all this could happen.”
— Homer, Iliad, VI.363-366 (Lombardo translation)
“Creatures only use force when they are frightened or unsure of themselves.”
— Michael Elder
— Michael Elder
October 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
“Creatures only use force when they are frightened or unsure of themselves.”
— Michael Elder
— Michael Elder
Friday Vocabulary for the 43rd Friday of 2025:
"As a nation we've never been without an answer, even if it's only a Bronx cheer."
— Norman Dodge
"As a nation we've never been without an answer, even if it's only a Bronx cheer."
— Norman Dodge
Friday Vocabulary
1. motorik — driving 4/4 beat—often with pop! on 3rd beat—typical of krautrock
Though of course most are familiar with the motorik used in Kraftwerk's "Autobahn", aficionados still argue whether Jaki ...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Friday Vocabulary for the 43rd Friday of 2025:
"As a nation we've never been without an answer, even if it's only a Bronx cheer."
— Norman Dodge
"As a nation we've never been without an answer, even if it's only a Bronx cheer."
— Norman Dodge
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I’ve found a legitimate concern
October 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I’ve found a legitimate concern
Friday Vocabulary for the 42nd Friday of 2025:
"The only dependable law in life—everything is always worse than you thought it would be"
— Dorothy Parker
"The only dependable law in life—everything is always worse than you thought it would be"
— Dorothy Parker
Friday Vocabulary
1. mews — alley where stables are found; street with houses built from former stables or built to look like stables
No other passerby were on the streets at that hour, and as the tattered waif limped ...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Friday Vocabulary for the 42nd Friday of 2025:
"The only dependable law in life—everything is always worse than you thought it would be"
— Dorothy Parker
"The only dependable law in life—everything is always worse than you thought it would be"
— Dorothy Parker
Friday Vocabulary for the 41st Friday of 2025:
"There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."
— Benjamin Franklin
"There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."
— Benjamin Franklin
Friday Vocabulary
1. tripper — [British] excursionist, one who goes on a trip
Liz would often go into the city for the weekend, and history was made when the young tripper met the editor of New Moon magazine in an Edin...
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October 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Friday Vocabulary for the 41st Friday of 2025:
"There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."
— Benjamin Franklin
"There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."
— Benjamin Franklin
Friday Vocabulary for the 40th Friday of 2025:
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With today's ten words my Lexicon surpasses 4000 entries!
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With today's ten words my Lexicon surpasses 4000 entries!
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Friday Vocabulary
1. longeron — load-bearing brace or frame running lengthwise in an airplane's fuselage, or spanwise in its wing structure
The strut was hinged to the bottom longeron of the small craft, but had become...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Friday Vocabulary for the 40th Friday of 2025:
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With today's ten words my Lexicon surpasses 4000 entries!
educatedguesswork.com?page_id=2008
educatedguesswork.com?p=5105
With today's ten words my Lexicon surpasses 4000 entries!
educatedguesswork.com?page_id=2008
"And thou, sly hypocrite, who now wouldst seem
Patron of liberty"
- John Milton (Paradise Lost, IV.957-958)
Patron of liberty"
- John Milton (Paradise Lost, IV.957-958)
September 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"And thou, sly hypocrite, who now wouldst seem
Patron of liberty"
- John Milton (Paradise Lost, IV.957-958)
Patron of liberty"
- John Milton (Paradise Lost, IV.957-958)
Friday Vocabulary for the 39th Friday of 2025:
"Ah, it gets later and later every day."
— me
"Ah, it gets later and later every day."
— me
Friday Vocabulary
1. wally — [British slang] fool, doofus
Brett always acted the wally but I suspected there was more going on behind those blue eyes than any of us ever knew.
2. chough — birds belonging to a genus ...
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September 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Friday Vocabulary for the 39th Friday of 2025:
"Ah, it gets later and later every day."
— me
"Ah, it gets later and later every day."
— me
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Hive five! 🙏
'Scientists have developed a honeybee "superfood" that could protect them against the threats of climate change and habitat loss. Bee colonies that ate the supplement during trials had up to 15 times more baby bees that grew to adulthood.'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Scientists have developed a honeybee "superfood" that could protect them against the threats of climate change and habitat loss. Bee colonies that ate the supplement during trials had up to 15 times more baby bees that grew to adulthood.'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scientists make 'superfood' that could save honeybees
We rely on honeybees to pollinate our crops and a new food could protect them from growing threats.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Hive five! 🙏
'Scientists have developed a honeybee "superfood" that could protect them against the threats of climate change and habitat loss. Bee colonies that ate the supplement during trials had up to 15 times more baby bees that grew to adulthood.'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Scientists have developed a honeybee "superfood" that could protect them against the threats of climate change and habitat loss. Bee colonies that ate the supplement during trials had up to 15 times more baby bees that grew to adulthood.'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“the Bible teaches that a government without a benevolent despot of supernatural origin as its leader cannot be a happy experience”
— Tim LaHaye
— Tim LaHaye
September 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
“the Bible teaches that a government without a benevolent despot of supernatural origin as its leader cannot be a happy experience”
— Tim LaHaye
— Tim LaHaye
Only when I quote writers who literally penned their words do I sigh at character limits on whatever-it-is-we-call-these-post-tweet-anything-but-skeets ... (Oh, yes, and of course, Pynchon too)
September 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Only when I quote writers who literally penned their words do I sigh at character limits on whatever-it-is-we-call-these-post-tweet-anything-but-skeets ... (Oh, yes, and of course, Pynchon too)
Friday Vocabulary for the 38th Friday of 2025:
"How many other things might be tolerated in peace, and left to conscience, had we but charity, and were it not the chief stronghold or our hypocrisy to be ever judging one another?"
– John Milton (fr. "Areopagitica")
"How many other things might be tolerated in peace, and left to conscience, had we but charity, and were it not the chief stronghold or our hypocrisy to be ever judging one another?"
– John Milton (fr. "Areopagitica")
Friday Vocabulary
1. cog — to load dice so as to cheat; to cheat; to plagiarize
Someone had obviously cogged the dice—too obviously, for I couldn’t imagine anyone being gulled by dice that always threw sevens.
2. ha...
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September 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Friday Vocabulary for the 38th Friday of 2025:
"How many other things might be tolerated in peace, and left to conscience, had we but charity, and were it not the chief stronghold or our hypocrisy to be ever judging one another?"
– John Milton (fr. "Areopagitica")
"How many other things might be tolerated in peace, and left to conscience, had we but charity, and were it not the chief stronghold or our hypocrisy to be ever judging one another?"
– John Milton (fr. "Areopagitica")
Only 2 weeks after hitting this milestone, here’s my Book Listing of my last 100 books read…
Book List: 1600 Books
As I told you not too very long ago, I've just finished another set of 100 books (not counting the comic books and graphic novels (of which latter there was only one, sort of, and it was one of the ve...
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September 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Only 2 weeks after hitting this milestone, here’s my Book Listing of my last 100 books read…
Breathes there the man with soul so dead …?
September 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Breathes there the man with soul so dead …?
Friday Vocabulary for the 37th Friday of 2025:
"The chicken that clucks the loudest is the one most likely to go to the Steamfitter's Picnic."
— Banacek
"The chicken that clucks the loudest is the one most likely to go to the Steamfitter's Picnic."
— Banacek
Friday Vocabulary
1. advowson — [British] right to nominate person to fill an vacant church benefice
But the third Lord Ermley had never severed the advowson from those land holdings, and thus confusion ensued when Mr....
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September 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Friday Vocabulary for the 37th Friday of 2025:
"The chicken that clucks the loudest is the one most likely to go to the Steamfitter's Picnic."
— Banacek
"The chicken that clucks the loudest is the one most likely to go to the Steamfitter's Picnic."
— Banacek
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Friday Vocabulary for the 36th Friday of 2025:
"I don't care how bell-toned an orator you are,
You're nothing but trash."
— Homer, 𝐼𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑑, II.268-269 (Stanley Lombardo translation)
"I don't care how bell-toned an orator you are,
You're nothing but trash."
— Homer, 𝐼𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑑, II.268-269 (Stanley Lombardo translation)
Friday Vocabulary
1. lithia water — mineral water containing lithium salts
While it is true that 7-Up tried to capitalize on the craze for lithia water with its original name, the soft drink never contained any lithium...
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September 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Friday Vocabulary for the 36th Friday of 2025:
"I don't care how bell-toned an orator you are,
You're nothing but trash."
— Homer, 𝐼𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑑, II.268-269 (Stanley Lombardo translation)
"I don't care how bell-toned an orator you are,
You're nothing but trash."
— Homer, 𝐼𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑑, II.268-269 (Stanley Lombardo translation)
Over a decade ago my wife gave me as a gift a barcode reader and book database software, and I've been tracking all my books and especially the books I've read since 2015. And just yesterday I finished reading my 1600th book.
#booksky
#booksky
1600 Books
Finally I have finally finished Paradise Lost, which I've been reading off and on (mostly off, as you will gather) for well over a year now. I can't even claim that I got stuck in the ancillary materi...
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September 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Over a decade ago my wife gave me as a gift a barcode reader and book database software, and I've been tracking all my books and especially the books I've read since 2015. And just yesterday I finished reading my 1600th book.
#booksky
#booksky
Added a few entries to my Cockney slang page, having just finished the first Hazell book. Only added 16 new entries, by my count, as most of the ones I checked I'd already added. Serves me right for reading the last one first
#booksky
#booksky
Cockney Rhyming and other British Slang
As found in the dialogue and narration of James Haskell, London private detective
A very idiosyncratic lexicon of some British slang terms, mostly found while trying to understand the writing of P....
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September 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Added a few entries to my Cockney slang page, having just finished the first Hazell book. Only added 16 new entries, by my count, as most of the ones I checked I'd already added. Serves me right for reading the last one first
#booksky
#booksky