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Kat - May 22, 2007 7:51:31 am PDT #8665 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I think he's bad news.

Bad news or not, you got chicken out of it.

My key broke off in the trunk lock of my car in the hospital parking lot. My ignition key is different than my trunk and door key, so I could drive home. But no AAA help because I can drive. Unfortunately my purse, my AAA card, my cell phone, paperwork on the babies? All in the trunk.

This makes for an unhappy last day of leave.

tommyrot - May 22, 2007 8:09:16 am PDT #8666 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Huh. Regarding ex-presidents insulting other presidents:

WILLIAM TAFT (1909-1913) was charged with carrying Roosevelt’s "big stick" as War Secretary. Roosevelt hand-picked him as his successor, declaring there could not "be found in the whole country a man so well fitted to be president." It wasn't long, however, before he was calling Taft a "second-rate flubdub...a fathead and a puzzlewit."

I think I shall endeavor to reintroduce the pejorative "puzzlewit" back into popular usage....

DavidS - May 22, 2007 8:20:59 am PDT #8667 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I HAVE MY BOY LOLLIPOP STUCK IN MY HEAD. If memory serves, that's Hec's fault.

At least you now associate it with playful sexy animation.

Jesse - May 22, 2007 8:22:45 am PDT #8668 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I love "second-rate flubdub."

Tom Scola - May 22, 2007 8:26:04 am PDT #8669 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I want to invent a new musical genre called flubdub.

Jessica - May 22, 2007 8:27:59 am PDT #8670 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I want to know what would qualify someone as a first-rate flubdub.

tommyrot - May 22, 2007 8:29:59 am PDT #8671 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I want to know what would qualify someone as a first-rate flubdub.

Perhaps the extent of their puzzlewittiness would be a factor.

Jesse - May 22, 2007 8:30:08 am PDT #8672 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I want to know what would qualify someone as a first-rate flubdub.

This is what I'm saying.

Connie Neil - May 22, 2007 8:30:53 am PDT #8673 of 10001
brillig

puzzlewittiness

I kick butt at jigsaw puzzles, does that count?

Jesse - May 22, 2007 8:32:40 am PDT #8674 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Interesting: m-w.com doesn't even have puzzlewit. Flubdub is defined as "bunkum, balderdash." What an awesome collection of words!

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